If an indelible image from your childhood is the Weekly Reader featuring Matthew Henson, setting foot on the Artic, perhaps it’s a given that your art practice will explore the vastness of nature. …

By P. Andrews-Keenan The exhibition A Site of Struggle: American Art against Anti-Black Violence at the Block Museum in Evanston is both enlightening and disturbing. So disturbing that within the gallery space are areas where you can sit quietly should the images become too overwhelming. …

By P. Andrews-Keenan We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again, art & history are entwined. This Juneteenth saw exhibitions, openings and talks grounded in history, all with an eye to the future, happening across the country. WISCONSIN Wisconsin hosts some of the oldest Juneteenth celebrations in the country…

By P. Andrews-Keenan Happy Liberation Day! It’s Father’s Day and Juneteenth! How amazing that we get to celebrate resiliency, tenacity, fortitude, and a lot of other adjectives that apply to the Black experience and get to celebrate Black fathers too. I think that’s fair; my son Richard is an amazing…

P. Andrews-Keenan Artist and art historian Samella Sandra Lewis, who died on Friday, May 27th, is renowned for her contributions to African American art and history. Born on February 27, 1924 in New Orleans, Louisiana, Lewis’ heritage led her to view art as an essential expression of the community and…

P. Andrews-Keenan “My love, do you ever dream of, candy-coated raindrops? You’re the same, my candy rain!” The song by Soul For Real popped into my head after attending the opening of Nick Cave: Forothermore at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Entering the exhibition was like entering Willy Wonka’s chocolate…

P. Andrews-Keenan It’s a toss-up on what you notice first upon entering The Afro-Futurist Manifesto: Blackness Reimagined, the magnificent Murano glass chandelier illuminating the galley or the black walls. But then, the art! The art catches your eye, and everything, even the room shifts. M. Scott Johnson’s sculptures of Black…

Pigment International and Team Pink — Celebrating Somoto in Pink Pants The Pigment Team could not get enough of our cover artist REWA, who flew in from Lagos to EXPO. She is absolutely a class act, and we were all Team Pink for EXPO Chicago from the opening Vernissage to…

Pigment International® cover artist REWA to sign limited copies of Pigment Magazine in Booth P-4 Clubhouse Conversation on the influence of the Chicago Black art scene with Dometi Pongo set for April 6 The Chicago Black art ecosystem is strong and global. From The American Negro Exposition in 1940; to…