Black women artists

This week I took some time to work on making sure the art I'm seeing in my instagram feed is from a diverse group of artists (I followed some hashtags like #blackartists and #blackgirlartshow to make sure I continue to see new-to-me artists on my feed, and did some intentional searching around to find artists to follow). In the process I found some new favorites! Here are ten of my favorite Black artists, some old favorites and some that were new to me.* Pamela Phatsimo SunstrumInstagram…

As her new exhibition opens in Turin, Alayo Akinkugbe talks with Danielle Mckinney about rest being taboo in our culture, the lack of classical paintings with Black women, and capturing the intimacy of “when we just let go”

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Every day in ‘lockdown’, we are asked to consider the effects of social distancing – as if segregation weren’t already a reality

Simon Davis

Toyin Ojih Odutola’s portraits of a fictional aristocratic Nigerian family push toward an expanded definition of the ‘black experience’

Her racially-charged work has caused controversy in the US. What does she have in store for her Turbine Hall commission? We meet the artist in her Brooklyn studio