by Tiana Randall, VOGUE. For many in the Baptist denomination, Easter Sunday church service isn’t just a religious obligation but a homecoming. It becomes a community celebration, a gathering to honor—as many lovingly put it—Christ’s resurrection. People arrive dressed in fresh, spring-inspired looks. By the service’s end, as the congregants overflow into the streets, so does the fashion.
by Kimberly Pirtle, Sotheby’s. Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr. speaks about commitment to advancing photography that promotes Parks’ vision.
by Micah Walker, Bridge Detroit. The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) latest exhibition, Gun Violence Memorial Project, is a collaboration with Boston-based architecture firm MASS Design Group, conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas and his organization Songha & Company, and Chicago advocacy group Purpose Over Pain.
by Julian Lucas, The New Yorker. Simpson’s wryly evasive photos, films, collages—and now paintings—peel back the layers of our looking. Painting; the discipline intimidated her in art school, and even as a mature artist.
by Olivia Hampton, NPR. Even before Amy Sherald was commissioned to paint former First Lady Michelle Obama’s portrait, she knew she’d have a major museum retrospective some day, and she came up with its title: American Sublime. The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York opened the first major survey of her work.
by Reggie Ugwu, The New York Times. Of all the storied bonds between visionary directors and their movie star alter egos — few have been as seamless as the one between Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan. The star and the director of “Sinners” have risen in parallel since first working together over a decade ago.
by Jasmine Weber, HYPERALLERGIC. The essays in Speculative Light explore the many ways in which Beauford Delaney, another queer Black man, revolutionized Baldwin’s cultural perspective and imagination. James Baldwin wrote of his dear friend Beauford Delaney that the painter was “the first walking, living proof, for me, that a black man could be an artist.
Current Issue, T136: Queer Uganda. T136 features a folio on Queer Uganda that paints a harrowing portrait of queer life under Museveni’s 2023 Anti-Homosexuality Act in essays, short fiction, and poetry. In addition to the Queer Uganda folio, Frederick John Lamp brings us yet another dimension of Bayard Rustin’s genius in “Was Bayard Rustin the Most Important Collector of African Art in the 1950s?” which takes us on a breathtaking journey of art-detective work.
by Maya Pontone, HYPERALLERGIC. A Gustav Klimt portrait of a West African prince, long hidden away in a private collection, was displayed for the first time in nearly a century at the European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Presented by Austrian gallery Wienerroither and Kohlbacher, the two-foot-tall 1897 oil painting depicts Prince William Nii Nortey Dowuon, a member of the Ga (Osu) people from present-day Ghana.
by Melena Ryzik, The New York Times. The actress is building a community of artists, in downtown Manhattan. She endeavored to build Atelier Jolie into a hub for artists, makers, chefs, students and Broadway stars. The building has artistic pedigree: 57 Great Jones Street, once owned by Andy Warhol, and inhabited by Jean- Michel Basquiat.