Jasmine Weber

1 week ago | hyperallergic.com | Jasmine Weber

In the contemplative gazes of Amy Sherald’s characters, we might see ourselves, our friends and family, or any passersby. The Georgia-born artist situates her meticulous figurative paintings in the tradition of American Realism. Her focus on the universal, the “ordinary,” is characteristic of the movement, which has historically been defined by writers like Mark Twain and Henry James, and painters like Edward Hopper and Andrew Wyeth.

1 month ago | hyperallergic.com | Jasmine Weber

We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. In his 1985 nonfiction anthology The Price of the Ticket, James Baldwin wrote of his dear friend Beauford Delaney that the painter was “the first walking, living proof, for me, that a black man could be an artist.” In death, James Baldwin’s oeuvre has been dissected by devoted readers and scholars, his public persona elevated to godlike status.

1 month ago | hyperallergic.com | Natalie Haddad |Hrag Vartanian |Lisa Zhang |Alexandra Thomas |Jasmine Weber

We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. This is a week of big statements by artists and expanded possibilities by curators and gallerists, past and present. If you haven’t already made the trip to Pioneer Works in Brooklyn’s Red Hook neighborhood to see American Artist’s exploration of author Octavia E. Butler, we highly recommend it.

1 month ago | hyperallergic.com | Jasmine Weber

We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. In the mid-1960s, as the revolutionary fervor of Black Power intensified, an Afrocentric aesthetic movement was brewing. Poet and playwright Amiri Baraka opened the Black Arts Repertory Theater in Harlem in 1965, seen as a nucleus for the emergent Black Arts Movement.

Nov 20, 2024 | culturedmag.com | Jasmine Weber

Photography by Sean Donnola. AGE: 31BASED: New York/Columbus, OhioWhen we meet in early fall over Zoom, Cameron A. Granger stresses the collaboration at the heart of his multimedia practice. “Me and the homies, we’ve been making work for almost a decade together,” he says.