Calida Rawles

The Black American Women Who Made Their Own Art World

We Wanted a Revolution at the Brooklyn Museum tracks the shape-shifting radicalism of black women artists, authors, filmmakers, dancers, gallerists, and public figures between 1965 and 1985.

Lezley Saar’s Melancholic Poetics of Identity

For decades, Saar has explored the emotional conflict underlying identity from the perspective of a biracial woman.

John D. Graham and "Another Way of Making Modern Art”

Digging deeply into his own psyche, Graham was able to cast off the pastiche of styles that had been crowding his mind’s eye, and follow his own peculiar path.

Bipartisan Letter from Over 150 Members of Congress Urges More Money for the NEA

While President Trump has called for the agency's elimination, more than 150 members of Congress want to increase funding to the National Endowment for the Arts.

“What Does It Mean to Be Black and Look at This?” A Scholar Reflects on the Dana Schutz Controversy

Christina Sharpe says the issue at the heart of the dispute over the Emmett Till painting is not representation so much as intimacy and our relationship to violence.

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