Romare Bearden's vibrant mural-size tableau The Block (1971) and related sketches and photographs will be featured at The Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning January 15, 2010, in a small installation ...
Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the ...
The Block, collage by Romare Bearden, poems by Langston Hughes (Metropolitan Museum of Art, $15.99, ages 10 and up). Bearden painted the six-panel collage “The Block” in 1971, four years after Hughes’ ...
Not long before Romare Bearden's first major museum retrospective opened at the Museum of Modern Art in 1971, he peered out from a friend's window overlooking Lennox Avenue in Harlem and made a few ...
Once she was cast out of the United States. Today, her art and activism are front and center at an exhilarating Brooklyn Museum retrospective. By Siddhartha Mitter New York City’s sprawling public ...
As the founder of Woman’s Art Journal and the author of influential textbooks, she documented the work of many accomplished artists who had been ignored. By Ash Wu Once she was cast out of the United ...