Feminist Artists Gather in New York to Celebrate 19th Amendment – ARTnews.com
“What does it mean to be with you? Saying yes to everything you want?” “Are you with me?” “It’s my body! Even when it rebels.” These were a few of…
Prominent Seattle Art Collector Dies at 91 – ARTnews.com
Virginia Wright, who with her husband, Bagley, built one of country’s most important collections of postwar and contemporary art and helped transform Seattle’s art scene, has died. She was 91.…
Rick Owens Went on a Bus Tour to Michael Heizer’s ‘City’ – ARTnews.com
Is it any surprise that Rick Owens, the fashion designer known as “the Lord of Darkness,” only travels in one mode: absolute style? In October, Owens and his wife, Michèle…
Curator Ingrid Schaffner Heads to Chinati Foundation – ARTnews.com
March promises to be a month defined by Donald Judd in New York, where the Museum of Modern Art will open his the Minimalist’s first major retrospective in 30 years,…
Oprah loves this N.J.-based after school program so much, she just gave it $5M
Judith Griffin was at a loss for words for about 90 seconds when she got the phone call last September. Rebecca Sykes, then president of the Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation,…
Obituary: Josephine Beatrice Demby Brown
On January 31, 2020, Josephine Beatrice Demby Brown, Survived by son; Walter A. Brown, daughter; Shelley Jordon, 2 grandchildren; Jessica and Nicholas Jordon and a host of family and friends.…
Baltimore Editor Sits Down With National Action Network
By AFRO Staff On Feb. 18, the AFRO’s Baltimore Editor, Sean Yoes sat down with several members of the Baltimore Chapter of the National Action Network (NAN), to discuss the…
Former Police Commissioner Released from Prison
By Michelle RichardsonSpecial to the AFRO Recently, former Baltimore Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa was released from a federal prison and was transferred to a transitional facility for inmates preparing…
Is the City Criminalizing ‘Squeegee Kids?’
By Sean YoesAFRO Baltimore Editor Two burly young men armed with squeegees and windex approached my vehicle the morning of Feb. 17, near the traffic light at Conway, as I…
300 Cops Added to `Do Not Call’ List
By Stephen JanisSpecial to the AFRO A conflict over the ability of a wide swath of Baltimore police officers to testify in court is raising more questions about the effectiveness…