August 7, 2020Corey SerrantAfrican American Art Artists Reclaiming the Queer Black Male Form Read more about Artists Reclaiming the Queer Black Male Form Richmond Barthé, Beauford Delaney, Kehinde Wiley, Freddie Styles, and Glenn Ligon produced artworks that are in sole ownership of the manifestation of their physical entities. They chose these modes of representation that best suit them, without the gaze of the heteropatriarchy and white cis-gendered gay men.
Read more about Collecting Photographs by African-American Women June 1, 2020 African American Art Collecting Photographs by African-American Women Swann Auction Galleries’s June 4, 2020 sale of African American Fine Art features five lots from contemporary women photographers who use the lens to document, critique and challenge their societies and their institutions. Here Corey Serrant takes us through the artists and their work.
Read more about A Brief History of AfriCOBRA April 14, 2020 African American Art A Brief History of AfriCOBRA The AfriCOBRA movement was borne from the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements. The collective was founded in 1968 by Chicago based artists: Jeff Donaldson, Wadsworth Jarrell, Jae Jarrell, Barbara…