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Design, RISD, Crystal Williams, Jarrett Fuller

RISD’s New President Is a Signal of Changing Priorities in Design

One story of the last decade is the ascendance of design in tech and business. Another story is of racial reckoning.

Demonstrators protesting Senator William Borah’s stand against anti-lynching legislation outside Kismet Temple, Brooklyn, NY, January 28, 1936. Photo: Bettmann/Getty Images. Demonstrators protesting Senator William Borah’s stand against anti-lynching legislation outside Kismet Temple, Brooklyn, NY, January 28, 1936. Photo: Bettmann/Getty Images

Romare Bearden Artist and Protester

It’s very likely that this 1936 black-and-white photo of a protest in Brooklyn captures two hitherto unknown paintings by Romare Bearden, one of the twentieth century’s most celebrated African American artists.

Jammie Holmes: Blame the Man #2, 2021, acrylic and oil pastel on canvas

Jammie Holmes on Painting His Hurt and His Hope

Articles, Interviews / Interview, Painting

Painter Jammie Holmes in an hourlong conversation is disarmingly candid about his legacy, his sons, and the dark days that inform his paintings.

Nina Chanel Abney Always Ready, Always There, 2018 Acrylic and spray paint on canvas

Black Bodies, White Spaces: Invisibility & Hypervisibility

Exhibitions / Decolonisation

What we see is political. Taking up space is resistance. Walking through the gallery space hung with pictures, museum-goers act out and internalise a version of history… what happens when this space is infiltrated by those history has sought to exclude?

A gallery of cryptopunks, digital art, NFTs

The Future of NFTs: How PFP-Based Projects Took Over the Market

Articles / Cryptocurrency, NFTs

Because of the way PFP (Profile Pic) projects are generated, they spark a loyal base of buyers. He compared the production of PFPs to the way television networks grow a community of fans for their series. They associate a personality with that character that reminds them of themselves or how they want to be.

Nadia Waheed, painting, Contemporary Artists, Sprituality

Why Contemporary Artists Are Embracing Spirituality in Their Work

Articles / Sprituality

In recent years, we’ve witnessed renewed momentum surrounding spirituality in the art world. At museums, late artists who dove deeply into mysticism and religion are gaining posthumous attention.

How Color And Gesture work to make powerful art

Interviews / Art Technique, Painting

In Naudline Pierre’s cavernous paintings, jewel-toned bodies writhe against the edge of the world. Figures float, fight and fly, sublimated within the timeless imagery of a landscape with no land and no horizon, gently warmed by their own stark vibrance.