Hurvin Anderson, “Peter’s Sitters 2,” 2009, 187 cm x 147 cm. Courtesy of Thomas Dane Gallery. British painter Hurvin Anderson is may be mid-career, with a solo show at London�s Tate Britain under his belt, but his show at the Studio Museum Harlem is his first big show in the […]
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Pioneering figurative painter Barkley Hendricks at the Studio Museum
T.J. Carlin reports in Time Out that Barkley Hendricks, who for the past thirty years has been a wry, beret-wearing presence in my town’s quiet art community, is long overdue for a retrospective. “I�m not sure if Barack Obama�s election had anything to do with it, but upon entering ‘Birth […]
Kehinde Wiley: Likenesses
In Time Out, Sophie Fels writes that painter Kehinde Wiley is like the hero of a children�s story. “Wiley grew up as one of six siblings raised with more love than money by a single mom who was an antiques dealer in South Central Los Angeles. His father, who works […]
Jacob Lawrence: Painting as aesthetic object or historic narrative?
�Jacob Lawrence�s Migration Series: Selections From the Phillips Collection,� Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. Through Jan. 6. �Undoing the Ongoing Bastardization of �The Migration of the Negro� by Jacob Lawrence,� Triple Candie, New York, NY. Through Jan. 20. Slide show. This exhibition, originally organized by the Studio […]