Janyce Denise Glasper reviews the series, ‘Queenie,’ streaming on Hulu, noting that she learned some welcome history about African-British and African-Caribbean women whose stories she had not known and are not routinely told in history books.
Read MoreJanyce talks with the late Betty Blayton’s younger brother, Oscar, who is working with the artist’s archive and shares much of Betty’s history of an artist in New York from 1960-2016, where she was friends with many Black artists and founding director of the Harlem-based Children’s Art Carnival.
Read MoreJanyce Glasper reads a book she calls “unputdownable.” The book is a novel and its story, set in Italy, compares the lives of a Victorian-era Black artist (lightly based on that of Edmonia Lewis), and a contemporary Somali artist researching the earlier artist’s life.
Read MoreJanyce Denise Glasper’s trip to Miami’s Art Basel and the allied fairs, Untitled and Prizm was lightning fast and filled with eye treats. Janyce highlights examples of diversity in the fairs.
Read MoreOur contributor Janyce Denise Glasper experiences her first Miami art fair in December, 2023, and zeroes in on the diversity she finds. Enjoy this post and the names that it sheds light on.
Read MoreJanyce Denise Glasper sees an exhibit by Njideka Akunyili Crosby in New York at David Zwirner Gallery.
Read MoreJanyce Denise Glasper argues that the late Dr. Samella Lewis’s advocacy for inclusion of those whose lives and art have been overlooked in the art history canon must be carried forward.
Read MoreJanyce Denise Glasper sees the Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibit organized by the beloved artist’s sisters Lisane Basquiat and Jeanine Heriveaux, and calls it strong, meaningful and moving. The ticketed show, in Chelsea, with exhibition design by Sir David Adjaye, OBE, has been extended to Sept. 3, 2022.
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