By BRETT ZONGKER, Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- Move over Martha Washington. Martha Stewart and Michelle Obama are getting space in the National Portrait Ga... Read More...
Trained as a classical painter at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and at Yale University, Barkley L. Hendricks rose to prominence in the '60s and '70s... Read More...
Zoe Kravitz will star in Alexander Wang's T fall ad campaign, WWD reports. The 21-year-old daughter of Lenny Kravitz and Lisa Bonet has posed alongside mode... Read More...
Elizabeth Catlett has said that the purpose of her art is to "present black people in their beauty and dignity for ourselves and others to understand and enjoy." As a sculptor and printmaker, she blends figurative and abstract traditions with social concerns, and has maintained a deep belief in the democratic power of printed art to reach a large audience.
Via PBS.org
Ellis Wilson, whose father was also an artist, was born in Mayfield, Kentucky in 1899. Wilson went north to Chicago in the early 1920s to study a... Read More...
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Essence Magazine has been called out by some of its readership and supporters for reportedly hiring a white Fashion Director, accordi... Read More...
A bone marrow drive for an 11-year-old "Lion King" star with leukemia has turned out to be one of the hottest matinees on Broadway.
Some 385 people registered as bone marrow donors Sunday in hopes of helping Shannon Tavarez (tuh-VAR'-ehz) beat leukemia.
Shannon played the role of Young Nala the lion cub in "The Lion King" for seven months before she was diagnosed with the life-threatening blood cancer in April.
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Outside of all the uproar over what team Lebron James chose to play with, can we pause for the Money To Blow cause and bring attention to the t... Read More...
AVATAR star Zoe Saldana has been named as the new face - and body - of Calvin Klein underwear in their new venture, Envy by Calvin Klein.
Zoe, 32, replac... Read More...
(AP) Family, particularly fathers and sons. Can there be a more inexhaustible topic for great playwrights?
From Shakespeare (think all those "Henry" history ... Read More...
