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Zona Maco: Mexico City’s Art Market Boom and the American Influx

by Andrew S. Jacobson February 24, 2025February 24, 2025

Mexico City has become a major art hub, attracting American galleries and collectors, with Zona Maco and Material Art Fair showcasing Latin America’s artistic dynamism and attracting a significant American presence.

"Lost Ones," taken by Muse Dodd, is part of a series called "How to be Free: A Meditation of Existence as Resistance." With this collection, Dodd aimed to soothe Black audiences by creating serene imagery. (Courtesy photo)

World

From Rio to Baltimore: The Fight for Authentic Black Representation

by Mya Trujillo February 19, 2025February 19, 2025

DEI

Black Artists, Organizations Protest After Trump Seizes Control of Kennedy Center

by Stacy M. Brown February 17, 2025February 17, 2025

Arts

Step Afrika! Sets Guinness World Record for Largest Stepping Dance

by Micha Green February 17, 2025February 17, 2025

Arts

HBO’s Eyes on the Prize III Revisits Black America’s Modern Civil Rights Struggles

by Stacy M. Brown February 17, 2025February 19, 2025

Kennedy Center President Deborah Rutter is resigning, effective at the end of 2025. (Courtesy of the Kennedy Center)

Lifestyle

On Watch: The Future of American Arts Programs

by Brenda C. Siler February 4, 2025February 4, 2025

Artist Handirubvi Wakatama Herring in front of some of her work in the exhibit "Magwenya," which means a female crocodile. The exhibit, located at Studio 3510 in Mt. Rainer, Maryland, chronicled her healing journey and included more than a dozen drawings and paintings that Wakatama Herring created on her road to self-realization. (Ja'Mon Jackson/The ��ݮtv Informer)

Lifestyle

Handirubvi Wakatama Herring Defines Herself in ‘Mangwenya’ Exhibit

by Sam P.K. Collins December 26, 2024January 2, 2025

"THROUGHLINE: VOL. II" is a one-of-a-kind multisensory art exhibition that leverages photography, painting, performance art, and culinary craft to champion 16 of the District's Black unsung heroines. (Jada Ingleton/The ��ݮtv Informer)

Lifestyle

An ‘Ode to the Women in D.C’: ‘THROUGHLINE VOL. II’ Honors Local Changemakers With Multidisciplinary Art Exhibit

by Jada Ingleton December 21, 2024December 21, 2024

This 1958 Philomé Obin’s oil painting on fiberboard, “President Tiresias Sam Entering Cap-Haïtien,” shows a crowd applauding the Haitian president during his visit in 1901. Under Sam’s leadership, Haiti built railroads around the northern port city of Cap-Haïtien, providing new transportation pathways for people and goods. (Courtesy of National Gallery of Art, Gift of Kay and Roderick Heller)

Lifestyle

Haitian Art Exhibition Traces Its Global Influence

by Brenda C. Siler December 16, 2024December 16, 2024

Three separate draped canvases by Sam Gilliam, part of The Phillips Collection exhibition “Breaking It Down: Conversations from the Vault,” are an example of his approach to using color. (L-R) Sam Gilliam pieces: “Red Register,” 1970, Acrylic on canvas, 89 x 37 x 6 in., on loan from the collection of Barbara and Aaron Levine; “Maya,” 1970, Acrylic on canvas, 100 x 30 x 9 in., on loan from the collection of Susan and Dixon Butler; “Broad Cape,” 1972, Acrylic on canvas, 118 x 50 in., a gift from Harry and Monika Holmgren, 2023. (Courtesy of Lee Stalsworth)

Lifestyle

The Phillips Collection’s ‘Breaking It Down: Conversations from the Vault’ Features Early Classics and Contemporary Art

by Brenda C. Siler December 4, 2024December 5, 2024

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