photography
Dalí, Brathwaite, Soin: Dialogues about change at the Art Institute of Chicago
March 20, 2023A high-powered draw at the Art Institute.
Read more‘Start from the heart’: Black photographer Adger Cowans, life and times
August 2, 2022Given the Jim Crow era in which Cowans grew up and matured, “I took all that racism and rejection and everything,” he said, “and I put it in my work."
Read morePain, hope, change: Boarded-up buildings become canvases for radical art
June 29, 2020Activist artists transform sealed businesses into public art broadcasting a message of resilience and social transformation.
Read moreBurnt out buildings: Just property damage or a visualization of pain?
June 5, 2020Somehow, the reason “why” these demonstrations are taking place has been drowned out in the minds of many, overtaken by wrongly-placed fury over the destruction of things.
Read moreThe Last Cruze: Photo exhibit shows autoworkers’ view of Lordstown shutdown
September 27, 2019Haunting. Partisan. Resilient. Solidarity. These words come to mind when describing LaToya Ruby Frazier's powerful photographic exhibition of Lordstown, Ohio, autoworkers, documenting the shutdown of the General Motors (GM) plant there earlier this year.
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