Art Forum News June 17, 2020 at 6:28pm San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum has removed a bust of the institution’s founding patron Avery Brundage that sat prominently in the institution’s foyer for nearly five decades. The twentieth-century sports administrator served as the fifth president of the International Olympic Committee, established an institution to house his…
Read Moreby Kira Page on March 8, 2018 in COCo Highlight, Front Page, ToolBox, ToolBox Document The “Problem” Woman of Colour in the Workplace A couple of years ago, COCo discovered an earlier version of this tool, which depicts a common experience for women of colour (and especially Black women) working in the nonprofit sector. The diagram, which was originally…
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“There won’t be a a penny that is going out the door that is not contributing to a more fair, more just, more beautiful society,” Alexander says. by Sarah Cascone on July 2, 2020 When future applicants seek funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the largest supporter of the arts and humanities in the US, they…
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by Alina Cohen on June 29, 2020 1:30pm Over the past 20 years, Kristina Newman-Scott has championed diversity and social justice in the arts. As a curator, director of culture for the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development, and now president of BRIC in Brooklyn, she’s long been committed to equity and representation in both the…
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BY KATIE HAYES CONTRIBUTING WRITER JUNE 15, 2020 05:45 AM As children play on the sidewalk, multiple artists are priming plywood and painting scenes while a small crowd watches. Earlier, a 4-year-old girl contributed a salmon that dances across the bright wall filled with names and portraits. Her work helps tell the story of oppression. The…
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by VICTORIA L. VALENTINE on Mar 26, 2020 • 8:58 pm GRAND SCALE narrative installations, figurative scenes produced as cut-paper silhouettes, brought early acclaim to Kara Walker more than 25 years ago. More recently, she has ventured into monumental public art. Her first foray was in 2014, when she created “A Subtlety,” her massive sphinx-like mammy figure, a sculpture covered entirely with sugar installed…
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7:49 PM PDT 6/14/2020 by Kimberly Nordyke Gianna Floyd, who is 6, thanked the actress-singer on Instagram. George Floyd’s 6-year-old daughter is now a Disney shareholder, thanks to Barbra Streisand. Gianna Floyd on Saturday shared a post on Instagram in which she thanked the actress-singer for her gift. The accompanying photos showed her along with a letter…
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by VICTORIA L. VALENTINE on Jun 9, 2020 • 5:58 pm A MUST READ FOR THE MOMENT, historian Ibram X. Kendi published “How to Be an Antiracist” last summer. Jeffrey C. Stewart, a museum veteran and biographer of Alain Locke, reviewed the volume for The New York Times. Stewart called it a “stunner of a book” and a “manual of racial ethics.” “How to Be an Antiracist” has…
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by VICTORIA L. VALENTINE on Aug 9, 2019 • 6:58 am FOR AN EXHIBITION in his hometown of Baltimore Derrick Adams drew on his personal history, sourcing images from a family photo album. Inspired by the decades-old images, he made a series of paintings documenting scenes from his childhood—a pair of bridesmaids in matching turquoise blue dresses, children playing in the yard…
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