Since its first iteration opened at venues across Southern California in 2011, Pacific Standard Time, a wide-ranging initiative by the Getty Foundation, has come to be seen as a game-changer for helping fund exhibitions devoted to art long under-known by the mainstream. On Wednesday, the public got its first look at what the 2024 edition,…
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Two years ago, Angelique Power assembled a roomful of colleagues to figure out how to get more people of color into arts posts around the city. The catalyst was a 2013 Americans for the Arts survey that showed that 86 percent of all executives at local arts agencies were white. “We immediately went to tactical…
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NOVEMBER 23, 2016 Angelique Power, President of the Field Foundation and her funding colleagues have been working together for two years in order to tackle one consistent problem: figuring out how to get more people of color into arts posts at local arts agencies around the city of Chicago. Learn more.
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By Nicquel Terry Ellis on August 4, 2020 7:02 a.m. NYC Paints Black Lives Matter mural in front of Trump Tower ATLANTA — A massive, black afro pick topped with a clinched fist— a potent symbol of Black identity — is touring the country to promote social justice amid a national reckoning of racism, police brutality and voter suppression. The creators behind the 28-foot tall art installation “All…
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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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