ARTnewsArtist Eric N. Mack on a 1971 Frank Bowling Essay About Black Art: ‘He’s Arguing for the Importance of Innovation’artnews.com - Alex GreenbergerFor more than 50 years, Frank Bowling, who turned 86 this past February, has been making abstract paintings that not only push the medium in new …
ARTnews‘It’s Pretty Dead-On’: Curator Laura Raicovich on a 1954 Article About the State of Western Museumsartnews.com - Alex GreenbergerToday, critics of museums’ values point to histories of colonialism and structural racism. Museums, they insist, are anything but neutral. In an …
ARTnewsThe Ideal Museum: Art Historian Kenneth Clark on the Formation of Western Institutions, in 1954artnews.com - Kenneth ClarkThe following article first appeared in the January 1954 issue of ARTnews under the headline “The Ideal Museum.” The public art gallery is a relatively …
ARTnews‘There Has Been Change’: Artist Howardena Pindell on a 1989 Article About U.S. Museums’ Exclusion of Black Artistsartnews.com - Alex GreenbergerOver the past several years, museums and galleries have made concerted efforts to show work by Black artists, responding to growing calls for equity. …
ARTnewsHow Top U.S. Art Museums Excluded Black Artists During the 1980s: From the Archivesartnews.com - Patricia FailingThe following article first appeared in the March 1989 issue of ARTnews under the headline “Black Artists Today: A Case of Exclusion.” It is reprinted …
ARTnewsCurator Lauren Haynes Revisits a 1966 Profile of Spiral, Pioneering Black Art Collectiveartnews.com - Alex GreenbergerIn 1963, 14 Black artists in New York formed the Spiral group. They met regularly to discuss issues affecting Black artists of the time, mounted one …
