Art & Design

Designer Rabih Kayrouz says he's going back to basics with his new collection.

Arts

The Autumn-Winter Shows Must Go On: Paris Fashion Week In The Time Of Corona

2:30pm March 11, 2021

by Allyson Portee

Pandemic restrictions are in full swing in Paris, but Fashion Week has pressed on with a mix of digital presentations and real-life shows for this year's fall and winter womenswear collections.

Frida Kahlo, Diego and Frida 1929 – 1944, 1944, oil on masonite with original painted shell frame, private collection, courtesy Galería Arvi

Arts

5 Lesser-Known, Late-In-Life Works By Frida Kahlo Now On View In Dallas

9:00am March 08, 2021

by Susan Stamberg

"In this difficult period, people feel a strong connection to Kahlo's sorrows and triumphs," says Dallas Museum of Art curator Mark A. Castro. Kahlo made these paintings as her health deteriorated.

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'Year of the Beast': How Tara Wray Used Photography To 'Process Fear And Uncertainty'

7:54am March 07, 2021

by Di'Amond Moore

Wray explores the difficulties of 2020, balancing the pandemic, family and work through her photography in a new book. She hopes "people will see themselves ... or loved ones in these pictures."

Residents look out of their windows at the Dharavi slum during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown.

How Bubonic Plague Reshaped The Streets Of Mumbai

7:30am March 07, 2021

by Sushmita Pathak

The scenes that have played out in India's financial capital this year with COVID-19 bear a striking resemblance to what life was like when the bubonic plague hit more than a century ago.

Chanell Stone photographs places like overgrown lots and green spaces at public housing projects, often including herself in the frame. Above, "In search of a certain Eden," 2019, Brooklyn.

Arts

Housing Projects And Empty Lots. How Chanell Stone Is Reframing Nature Photography

7:00am February 27, 2021

by Will Matsuda

Chanell Stone wants to change how people think about nature photography. "As Black people, it feels like these rural spaces aren't for us," she says. "I want to turn that idea on its head."

Young Artist Honors Black Icons With Playing Cards

5:01am February 26, 2021

A 22-year-old Kansas City artist, Kearra Johnson, transforms a school art project into a tribute to Black history – a standard playing card deck with face cards that portray African American icons.

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The skyline of Washington, D.C., including the Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, U.S. Capitol and National Mall, as seen on June 15, 2014.

President Biden Revokes Trump's Controversial Classical Architecture Order

5:18pm February 25, 2021

by Elizabeth Blair

The announcement from the White House was included in an executive order that revokes a number of Trump's actions as president. Trump had aimed to promote traditional design for federal buildings.

Deborah Willis, I Made Space For a Good Man, 2009, Lithograph, gift from the collection of Winston and Carolyn Lowe in honor of Brandywine founder, Allan L. Edmunds, 2019.18.35

Arts

In One Art Exhibition, Women Are 'Taking Space' They've Long Deserved

9:22am February 25, 2021

by Susan Stamberg

Works by female artists are center stage at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in an exhibition called Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale.

Amy Sherald, who painted the official portrait of Michelle Obama, appeared in the film Black Art: In the Absence of Light.

'Black Art' Chronicles A Pivotal Exhibition And Its Lasting Impact On Black Artists

9:48am February 24, 2021

A 1976 exhibit of art created by African Americans was the first major show by a Black curator and serves as a starting point for the HBO documentary Black Art: In the Absence of Light.

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HBO's 'Black Art' Indicts The Forces That Marginalize It

6:25am February 23, 2021

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to director Sam Pollard about the HBO documentary, Black Art: In the Absence of Light. The film celebrates the rich history of art by Black Americans.

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