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The New Orleans Museum of Art has sparked outrage ... by no means relate to the black or African experience.” Many social media users wondered why Maples, a white woman, was hired to curate ...
The importance of understanding women’s and Black women’s history lies ... in 1996 and regularly features art by and about women of the African Diaspora. Through art exhibitions, programming ...
a white woman, as its curator of African Art. Introducing Maples via press release and Instagram caused immediate blowback as commenters expressed intense frustration that a black curator or other ...
An exceptionally rare 17th-century painting featuring a Black woman and a white woman side by side has ... “But it’s also unique in British art and allows us to widen our understanding of ...
But the patronage of Black art by a white millionaire is complicated ... which follows a young Black man and woman as they unpack African artifacts stored in crates. These scenes amplify Julien ...
its artistic legacy will take center stage as New Orleans artist Tahj “Queen Tahj” Williams will become the first Black woman to handcraft both the Super Bowl logo and theme art for Super Bowl ...
Image and Artwork © 2025 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., via ARS In the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s, a group of Black women created restaurants ...
The New Orleans Museum of Art is facing sharp criticism for hiring a white woman to become its new Francoise Billion Curator of African Art rather than hiring a Black person. The museum announced ...
“Until y’all remedy this situation with a REAL apology and a new Black hire ... Kristen Windmuller-Luna, a white woman, as a consulting curator of African art. Public outcry came swiftly ...