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Crozier Lends a Hand to LA Galleries Hit by Wildfires at Independent Art Fair

Courtesy of Crozier In a show of support for Los Angeles galleries impacted by recent wildfires, Crozier Fine Arts has pledged to cover shipping costs for six exhibitors traveling to the Independent Art Fair in New York this May. The initiative, announced in partnership with Independent, will allow Night Gallery, Chris Sharp Gallery, Sea View, …

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In a Timely D.C. Exhibition, Artists of Color Use Sculpture to Question Who’s Worth Remembering

Pepón Osorio, Las Twines, 1998. Smithsonian American Art Museum Can a sculpture convey power? Historically, sculpture has been one of the key ways to depict who is in charge and who is worth remembering. That has been the case in the United States where the Lincoln Memorial and Mount Rushmore recall the country’s most revered …

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John Wilson, a Black Figurative Artist Nearly Lost to Time, Gets a Traveling Retrospective

John Wilson, Black Despair, 1945. ©Estate of John Wilson/Museum of Fine Arts, Boston To be Black in America, artist John Woodrow Wilson (1922–2015) once said, was to endure “a kind of slow death.” How best to fight that protracted, demoralizing violence? For Wilson, one solution was to produce art. In his paintings, sculptures, and prints, …

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What Was the Harlem Renaissance?

Photo collage by Daniela Hritcu. The Harlem Renaissance, also known as the New Negro Movement, was a movement of the 1920s and ’30s that sought to redefine Black identity through literature, music, painting, photography, and intellectual thought. It was a direct response to negative stereotypical images that proliferated throughout popular culture in the United States …

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Larry Gagosian Talked the Future with CBS: ‘I’m Not Ready to Pass the Reins’

Larry Gagosian was recently featured on the CBS Sunday Morning. Van Tine Dennis/Sipa USA CBS Sunday Morning recently aired a profile of gallery owner Larry Gagosian and how the 80-year-old art dealer navigates the “brutal business” while overseeing 18 locations around the world. The seven-minute segment aired on CBS Sunday Morning on February 23. Early …

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The Best Booths at Frieze LA, from Projects Dedicated to Fire Recovery to Quietly Introspective Sculptures

A view of the entrance of Frieze Los Angeles 2025. Maximilíano Durón/ARTnews The sun was out and shining all day Thursday in Los Angeles. It seems a fortuitous sign for the 2025 edition of Frieze Los Angeles, which opened to VIPs in the morning. From 10am onward, the custom-built tent at the Santa Monica Airport …

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Afrofuturism: Reimagining the Past and Telling a Black Fantastic Future

Photo collage by Daniela Hritcu. There are Black people in the future.” In 2017, contemporary visual artist Alisha B. Wormsley began placing those words on billboards across the country in cities including Pittsburgh, Detroit, Charlotte, New York City, Kansas City, and Houston. According to Wormsley, the phrase started out as a “Black nerd sci-fi joke.” …

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Romanian Man Defaces Vatican Altar, Damaging Objects Worth Thousands of Dollars

A picture shows the newly renovated baldachin, a large Baroque sculpted bronze canopy over the high altar of St. Peter’s Basilica, 2024. Photo Tiziana FABI/AFP via Getty Images A Romanian man who jumped onto the main altar at Saint Peter’s Basilica was apprehended by security staff at the Vatican on February 7. A video capturing …

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