by Matt Stromberg, HYPERALLERGIC. Small groups issue condemnations of state violence and share resources for communities under attack; big museums largely remain silent. In response to the ICE raids and subsequent protests several arts organizations have made statements in solidarity with immigrants and activists.
by Thomas Girst, artnet. Kouoh was larger than life. And yet as approachable as she was wonderful, so clever, so warm, so serious, so sensual, so bright, so full of charm, so brimming with humor. In her Swiss-German, she oftentimes referred to her conversation partners as “Schätzli” (or “sweetheart”) in the exchange.
by A. Fernández Campbell, A. Simpson, & P. Rebala, MOTHER JONES. Black Americans have been demanding compensation and restitution for their suffering since the end of the Civil War. 40 Acres and a Lie tells the history of an oftenmisunderstood government program that gave formerly enslaved people land titles after the Civil War.
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.
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.