“To write about the Black presence at the Delaware Art Museum is to recall the absence of curators, exhibitions, and artists,” says art historian and artist Simone Austin in the catalog for the re-staging of the exhibition ‘Afro-American Images 1971,’ now at the Delaware Museum. Our contributor Susan Isaacs gives the story of the current exhibition and its historical predecessor, and says, “The show is very important.”
Read MoreAnd here you are, with Part 2 of Andrea Kirsh’s annual roundup of the best in art books! Get going on your holiday shopping by picking up one of these books, and don’t forget to check out Part 1 if you missed it!
Read MoreThe Woodmere has assembled a picture of a self-organized community that thrived without outside help; in doing so, the museum enables the rest of Philadelphia’s art community to see what they’ve been missing.
Read MoreRoberta sits down with Barkley Hendricks, whose exhibit, ‘Birth of the Cool’ is a wow at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. The show features Hendricks’s signature portraits of African American people looking like icons worthy of worship – a little mysterious and forbidding and downright gorgeous.
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