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To Be Seen and Not Defined: Dandyism and the Black Intellectual Imagination
Figures like Du Bois, Hurston, and Baldwin stitched freedom into fabric—not out of vanity but vision. To revisit their style ...
An Artist Subverting Propaganda Through Large-Scale Sculptures
Sandra Poulson discusses Louise Bourgeois, Angolan humor and cheap wood. The artist Sandra Poulson, photographed in ...
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Art exclusively by Black men makes up Black Boy Art Show returning to Atlanta
Antonio Mcilwaine, artistically known as “Arm of Casso,” appeared in the first Black Boy Art Show in 2020 after moving to Atlanta from Philadelphia in 2018. His signature abstract pop “sharpism” style ...
The blackout that nearly broke New York—and the logo that saved it
In 1977, with dozens of fires set daily and tourism in freefall, New York hired an artist to save the city. His infamous ...
Inside the Long, Strange Trip of the World’s Best LSD
Owsley Stanley created a legendary strain of acid in the 1960s — now it’s taking on a new life in modern-day research ...