by Anna Cafolla, VOGUE. From festival drip to the Tony Awards, red carpet events, and the biggest college stars in women’s basketball— photographer Denise Stephanie Hewitt has captured intimate and energized portraits for Vogue.
by Rachel Corbett, VULTURE. The racial reckoning of 2020 sent prices soaring. Now, no one’s buying. The Black Lives Matter movement provoked museums to fill racial gaps in their collections and canons. In 2024, the wider art market cooled — notching about $10 billion less in sales than its pandemic high — and younger artists were hit particularly hard.
by Rick Rojas, The New York Times. Curators in the music mecca have begun the painstaking process of saving a trove of 75,000 photographs. The images capture decades of middle- and working-class life. For more than 40 years, this trove of work by the Hooks Brothers Studio, had been largely hidden away.
by Taylor Michael, ARTnews. Open Restitution Africa founders Maina and Moila realized that allthough discussions about African restitution increased, the needs of Africans are largely absent from these conversations.
Congratulations to Dr. Deborah Willis who has been inducted into the American Philosophical Society in The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public and Private Affairs Class. This esteemed society, founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743, is comprised of an elected body of scholars from all disciplines.
The Founder’s Award is the highest honor bestowed by The National Press Photographer’s Association and recognizes the careers, achievements and contributions of the most deserving individuals in our field. Dr. Deborah Willis’ immeasurable contributions to visual journalism are unflinching.
Twentysix years after its first publication, the text that made the history of hip hop feminism finally arrives in Italy. When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost by Joan Morgan, translated by Alesa Herero with a contribution by Wissal Houbabi, published by Intersezioni, is available in bookstores beginning May 13, 2025.
1967 – 2025. Appointed as the next Venice Biennale’s artistic director in December, Kouoh would have been the first African woman to oversee the international exhibition, whose theme and title she was reportedly slated to announce on May 20. Kouoh had also served as the executive director and chief curator of Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA) in Cape Town, South Africa, since 2019.
1967 – 2025. Rob Stull was the first African American artist-in-residence at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Stull worked for all of the major publishers in the industry, including Marvel Entertainment Group, DC Comics and Warner Brothers.
Pérez Art Museum Miami. The CCI welcomes submissions for the 2025 Artist, Research, and CCI + WOPHA Fellowships.The Caribbean Cultural Institute (CCI) Fellowship program fosters art projects and research that advance cultural development and scholarship in the Caribbean and its diaspora.