tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145293542235285431Tue, 28 Oct 2025 04:44:29 +0000African American Art Collectors Group FormingBeauford DelaneySomething to make me feel a little better today.A meeting place for Black artists and those interested in the arts.http://blackvisualartist.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (JHM)Blogger243125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145293542235285431.post-4908072966589089257Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:00:00 +00002010-09-24T04:00:01.034-07:00Bishop Eddie Long case: Will it alter black church's view of gays? - CSMonitor.comhttp://blackvisualartist.blogspot.com/2010/09/bishop-eddie-long-case-will-it-alter.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JHM)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145293542235285431.post-183234104135749254Sun, 16 May 2010 14:44:00 +00002010-05-16T07:44:55.783-07:00Click here. You will love it.http://blackvisualartist.blogspot.com/2010/05/grace-jones-3d.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JHM)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145293542235285431.post-685640247424669340Sat, 15 May 2010 17:17:00 +00002010-05-15T10:19:06.177-07:00 Check out this interesting interview with artist Kerry James Marshall.http://blackvisualartist.blogspot.com/2010/05/kerry-james-marshall.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JHM)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145293542235285431.post-1283852990645275274Sat, 15 May 2010 17:06:00 +00002010-05-15T10:06:36.684-07:00http://blackvisualartist.blogspot.com/2010/05/rip.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JHM)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145293542235285431.post-8879417485113173292Sat, 15 May 2010 17:02:00 +00002010-05-15T10:05:36.415-07:00Toward the end of her very full life, Lena Horne suggested to a PBS interviewer that, after decades of struggling to define her image as an artist and a black woman, she finally had seized possession of her identity."I don't have to be a symbol to anybody," said Horne, who died Sunday night in a New York hospital at the age of 92. "I no longer have to be a 'credit.' "Americans born before 1960 http://blackvisualartist.blogspot.com/2010/05/lena-horne-appreciation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JHM)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145293542235285431.post-1754824128482137946Sat, 15 May 2010 16:59:00 +00002010-05-15T10:00:08.584-07:00I took a Saturday to update my art website. Check it out www.jamesmckissic.comhttp://blackvisualartist.blogspot.com/2010/05/updated-website.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JHM)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145293542235285431.post-8875542721238906073Sat, 15 May 2010 16:58:00 +00002010-05-15T09:58:58.353-07:00FOR THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW, CHATTANOOGA RANKED AS ONE OF THE TOP 25 ARTS DESTINATION BY THE READERS OF “AMERICANSTYLE” MAGAZINE In the June issue of AmericanStyle magazine, Chattanooga is ranked as the #4 Mid-sized City on the Top 25 Arts Destinations 2010 list. AmericanStyle, a publication of Rosen Media, is an internationally respected magazine that focuses on contemporary art and craft and http://blackvisualartist.blogspot.com/2010/05/chattanooga.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JHM)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145293542235285431.post-3476780179514502919Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:27:00 +00002010-02-08T09:28:05.811-08:00A Walk Through Fort Greene - TRAILER from Diane Paragas on Vimeo.http://blackvisualartist.blogspot.com/2010/02/walk-through-fort-greene.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JHM)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145293542235285431.post-8645327128461573651Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:54:00 +00002010-01-13T10:55:08.613-08:00African American Art Collectors Group Forminghttp://blackvisualartist.blogspot.com/2010/01/african-american-art-collectors-group.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JHM)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145293542235285431.post-4794383158354083104Sun, 10 Jan 2010 02:39:00 +00002010-01-09T18:40:05.015-08:00http://blackvisualartist.blogspot.com/2010/01/blog-post.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JHM)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145293542235285431.post-650837022796096259Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:53:00 +00002010-01-07T11:56:38.283-08:00Chattanoogans, check out this new opportunity. The City's Public Art Committee is seeking submissions for its On the Fence project. More information is here http://www.onthefencedesign.com/http://blackvisualartist.blogspot.com/2010/01/on-fence.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JHM)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145293542235285431.post-5675354025367969276Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:52:00 +00002010-01-07T08:01:05.575-08:00If you're going to risk some extreme connoisseurship -- looking and looking at the tiniest details in art -- you need to follow Rule 1 of the sport: Empty your bladder first, for concentration's sake. It was on my way out of the bathroom on the second floor of the old wing of the Phillips Collection that I noticed a work I'd never registered before. No wonder: The little painting, "Place du http://blackvisualartist.blogspot.com/2010/01/place-du-tertre-by-lois-mailou-jones.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JHM)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145293542235285431.post-6158843327816010299Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:08:00 +00002010-01-05T06:11:43.739-08:00The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, located at 715 West Main Street, is pleased to present Searching for the Heart of Black Identity from January 9 – April 10, 2010. From Hip-Hop music to contemporary literature, movies to cable television, the identity of Black America is often characterized by caricature and exaggeration. Searching for the Heart of Black Identity showcases the work of an http://blackvisualartist.blogspot.com/2010/01/searching-for-heart-of-black-identity.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JHM)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145293542235285431.post-1942491106068986467Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:27:00 +00002009-12-23T13:28:39.250-08:00Happy Holidays fromwww.blackvisualartist.blogspot.comhttp://blackvisualartist.blogspot.com/2009/12/happy-holidays-from-www.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JHM)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145293542235285431.post-2441667592246041229Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:21:00 +00002009-12-17T10:24:13.265-08:00In its 2007 petition seeking court permission to sell a half-share of its Stieglitz Collection to Alice Walton's Crystal Bridges Museum, Fisk University gave the following (now outdated) justification for the proposed transaction:If Fisk's current financial condition doesn't improve, there is a high likelihood that it may lose its accreditation. Fisk is accredited by the Southern Association of http://blackvisualartist.blogspot.com/2009/12/fisk-art-news-from-culturegrrl.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JHM)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145293542235285431.post-3913533249509003686Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:40:00 +00002009-12-17T07:41:55.679-08:00http://blackvisualartist.blogspot.com/2009/12/blog-post.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JHM)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145293542235285431.post-6379249612406811404Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:37:00 +00002009-12-17T07:38:57.355-08:00Compared to the conservative choices of previous administrations, the art that the Obamas selected for the walls of the White House living quarters was mostly contemporary art by mostly living artists. Among them was New York-based Glenn Ligon, who, at 49, was the youngest artist to have his work chosen.The news took a while to reach Ligon."No one called me so when I heard about it, I thought it http://blackvisualartist.blogspot.com/2009/12/ligon-white-house-and-in-la.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JHM)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145293542235285431.post-3576454060800669843Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:35:00 +00002009-12-15T05:38:03.188-08:00Can the black family catch a break in the movies?www.startribune.com That's what many African-Americans in the Twin Cities and elsewhere are asking in the wake of two recent films: the critically acclaimed "Precious" and "The Blind Side," a No. 1 box-office hit that has grossed nearly $130 million since its Nov. 20 release.• In "Precious," based on Sapphire's wrenching novel "Push," an obese, http://blackvisualartist.blogspot.com/2009/12/what-do-you-think.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JHM)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145293542235285431.post-6897155081448453104Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:28:00 +00002009-11-28T19:28:26.045-08:00http://blackvisualartist.blogspot.com/2009/11/blog-post_28.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JHM)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145293542235285431.post-4935962081690996869Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:22:00 +00002009-11-21T08:24:09.168-08:00Four years ago when photography curator Julian Cox moved from L.A.'s J. Paul Getty Museum to Atlanta's High Museum of Art, he looked for a project that would connect him to his new community. The answer came quickly: a commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the death of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr."King was a national figure, but he was also a man of Atlanta," says Cox, who set out to http://blackvisualartist.blogspot.com/2009/11/road-to-freedom.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JHM)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145293542235285431.post-565649254256673Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:19:00 +00002009-11-21T08:19:39.614-08:00http://blackvisualartist.blogspot.com/2009/11/lets-start-holiday-season-out-right.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JHM)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145293542235285431.post-2702395579306994938Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:36:00 +00002009-10-30T08:42:33.112-07:00Roy DeCarava, 89, whose intimate, often melancholy black-and-white images of Harlem life made him one of the most respected photographers of his century, died Oct. 27 in New York. His family declined to provide the cause of death.Mr. DeCarava spent most of his career working near his birthplace in Harlem as he focused his cameras on lonely children, tired workers, expressive jazz musicians and http://blackvisualartist.blogspot.com/2009/10/roy-decarava.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JHM)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145293542235285431.post-1646338589028623210Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:58:00 +00002009-10-27T07:00:15.001-07:00I have been spending a great deal of time thinking about the issue of diversity in the arts, specifically, the drive to diversify the programming and constituents of all arts organizations.The more I consider this thorny issue, the less I am convinced that the arts world has worked hard enough to dissect the true costs, benefits and implications of recent diversity efforts.Over the past 30 years,http://blackvisualartist.blogspot.com/2009/10/questions-on-diversity-in-arts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JHM)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145293542235285431.post-7537235925037340199Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:19:00 +00002009-10-26T10:19:17.933-07:00http://blackvisualartist.blogspot.com/2009/10/paul-goodnight.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JHM)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4145293542235285431.post-8358091384301253292Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:12:00 +00002009-10-26T10:16:40.986-07:00In 1963 Romare Bearden and fellow artist Hale Woodruff invited other artists to join a group. They later called themselves the Spiral group and meet at Bearden's downtown Canal Street studio to discuss political events related to the civil rights movement and the plight of blacks in America. Initially the group was concerned with logistical issues, such as obtaining busses to travel to the March http://blackvisualartist.blogspot.com/2009/10/spiral.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JHM)0