by October Gallery
With various claims to ownership currently being litigated, a large Yayoi Kusama work on view in Miami through the city’s Institute of Contemporary Art cannot leave Miami-Dade County for now,…
The artist Oswald Oberhuber, whose multifarious practice spanned painting, collage, sculpture, installation, and assemblage, has died at age 88. Since the 1960s, Oberhuber has been a powerful force in the…
Actors, artists, and art institutions have united in a bid to save the home of the late visionary British filmmaker and activist Derek Jarman. On Wednesday, the Art Fund, a…
As major urban centers across America undertake the process of rethinking—and, in some cases, removing—monuments to potentially problematic figures, two bills have been proposed that would focus on controversial statues…
Hans Hofmann hung over this exhibition of Mike Kelley’s paintings like an oppressive father figure to rebel against. Epitomizing painting with a capital “P,” the early Abstract Expressionist’s work heavily…
“Blind Tom” was a musical prodigy who was born in slavery in 1850, in the state of Georgia. He was a contemporary virtuoso of Liszt and Rubinstein, but one who…
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (AP) — It was expected to be the beginning of a joyous preservation effort: relocating the town’s last standing African American school. But blocked by fumbled permits…
Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired the restored film for a theatrical run to begin in February. Debuting in 1982, “Cane River” was an independent-film curio: a race and colorism-themed love story…
By AFRO Staff A community vigil and march to honor the memory of Carmen Rodriguez, a Latina business owner who lost her life two days before Christmas, as well as…