13 April 2018, Mary Carole McCauley reveals that The Baltimore Museum of Art is selling seven artworks by such 20th-century masters as Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg and Franz Kline to make way for pieces by contemporary artists of color and women including South African artist Zanele Muholi.
13 April 2018, Abe Ahn reviews Meleko Mokgosi’s paintings currently on view in Bread, Butter, and Power at the Fowler Museum. Mokgosi questions democratic ideals in his paintings of contemporary life in Botswana.
11 April 2018, Zahra Omar reports on the University of Johannesburgâs Faculty of Art, Design, and Architecture (FADA) conferring an honorary doctorate to Esther Mahlangu.
5 April 2018, Artforum reports on Decolonize This Place’s open letter demanding that the Brooklyn Museum do more to address representation in its museum. The collective has urged the museum to introduce a âDecolonization Commissionâ that would help the museum âredress ongoing legacies of oppression, especially when it comes to the status of African art and culture.”
10 April 2018, Nadja Sayei looks at the new exhibition which celebrates black artists who use themes of time travel, technology and heroism to convey a broader image of the African experience.
10 April 2018, Andrew Russeth covers the ongoing legal battle that the Berkshire Museum has been fighting in order to sell works from its collection in order to raise money to cover ongoing museum costs.
9 April 2018, Jonathan Mandel reviews Otobong Nkanga’s current exhibition To Dig a Hole that Collapses Again at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
9 April 2018, Eileen Kinsella reports on how Postmaster Gallery has joined Patreon to seek financial support from their fans via monthly subscriptions.
5 April 2018, Jerry Salts reviews two spectacular Cy Twombly shows at Larry Gagosian Gallery in New York.
6 April 2018, The Malay Online takes and interesting look at April’s upcoming photography auctions and how four seemingly identical photographs can have four very different estimates. The photograph in question is Alfred Stieglitzâs, The Steerage, 1907 and the article looks at how fine details between the four works have a substantial influence on the final estimate.