Aruna DSouza
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With ‘Gems’ From Black Collections, the Harlem Renaissance Reappears
An ambitious new show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art uncovers work by long-ignored artists with the help of loans from Black colleges and family...
Six Artists on the Enduring Impact of the Harlem Renaissance
A century later, the first African American modernist movement continues to inspire and challenge.
With her Dad, Ben Vereen, by Her Side, Karon Davis Turns to Dance
The focus of her art is on realities that Black dancers face in the world of ballet. First she sculpted real dancers; then she brought...
In ‘Going Dark,’ at the Guggenheim, Artists Explore the Visibility Trap
In “Going Dark” at the Guggenheim, 28 artists explore urgent questions around what it means to be seen, and to see each other.
The Man Who Pictured Ghana’s Rise at Home and Abroad
James Barnor, Ghana’s first photojournalist and an influential fashion photographer in London, stars in a major survey at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
An Artist With Roots in Nairobi and New York Imagines a New Destiny
With sculptures that blend evolutionary history and science fiction, Wangechi Mutu draws on her bicontinental life for an ambitious New Museum survey.
Poetry, Power and Loss in Theaster Gates’s Survey
Known for his social practice, performance, sculpture and work with archives, the Chicago artist memorializes those who shaped his worldview in his first major American...
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