News A Groundbreaking Art Exhibition Explores the Undertold Stories of Black People in the Antebellum North The exhibition is on view until March 24 at the American Folk Art Museum in New York. By Melissa Smith Feb 21, 2024 6:00 am
News Year in Review: How Community Museums Continue to Serve as Models for Local Engagement A look at how five museums across the country are thinking about how best to engage their local audiences. By Melissa Smith Dec 27, 2023 7:30 am
News The Atlanta University Center Has Long Been a Home for Robust Scholarship of Black Art History Since the 1940s, Black artists have been—and continue to be—supported and collected by local institutions. By Melissa Smith Aug 2, 2023 6:00 am
News A New Startup Is Bringing the Y Combinator Model to the Art World In 2020, tech entrepreneur Joey Flores asked himself what an accelerator program could do for artists. By Melissa Smith Jun 21, 2023 9:04 am
News How the Kinsey Collection Grew from a Family’s Deep Dive into African American History to an Expansive Collection Narrating Over 400 Years of the Black Experience in the US “Looking at the African American story is like going into a graveyard with no headstones. So much of the contributions of African Americans in building this country have been wiped By Melissa Smith Feb 15, 2023 7:00 am
News Hollywood’s Top Talent Agencies Are Trying to Turn Today’s Hottest Visual Artists Into Household Names With an exhibition space in L.A., UTA Fine Arts plans to expand to Atlanta next year. By Melissa Smith Oct 31, 2022 4:35 pm
Artists From Outside In: Rashid Johnson Has Plied His Status as an Art Star to Effect the Kinds of Change He Wants to See The artist sits on the boards of the Guggenheim Museum, Ballroom Marfa, and Performa. By Melissa Smith Dec 13, 2021 11:00 am