Category: Black American Artists

• Artist Betye Saar tells ghost stories

  

  As one of the first artists to confront the chasm between the colonizer and the colonized, Saar created haunting works that seduce us into thinking deeply about race.

  Diane Tucker

  2023-09-01

  Art Appreciation, Black American Artists, Social and Political Struggles, The Shy Museumgoer, Women Artists

  African American art history, Art about enslavement, Arts writer Diane Tucker, Betye Saar art, Betye Saar assemblage, Betye Saar Gliding Into Midnight (2019), Betye Saar I’ll Bend But I Will Not Break

• Why isn’t Norman Lewis famous?

  

  Abstract Expressionism—America’s first global art movement—promised limitless artistic freedom. But for whom? How many Black Abstract Expressionists can you name?

  Diane Tucker

  2023-01-16

  Art Appreciation, Black American Artists, Modern Art, Social and Political Struggles, The Shy Museumgoer

  Arts writer Diane Tucker, Black Abstract Expressionists, First Black abstract expressionist, Norman Lewis paintings, Norman Lewis: Evening Rendezvous (1962), Norman Lewis: Johnny the Wanderer (1933), Norman Lewis: Untitled (Alabama) analysis