By Mark Savage, Music correspondent Organisers of the Eurovision Song Contest have said that abuse and harassment of artists over Israel’s participation in the competition is “unacceptable and totally unfair”. This year’s competition will take place in Sweden in May, … Continue reading Eurovision organisers condemn online abuse of contestants
By Penny Dale, Journalist The joy former child soldier Peter Oloya finds in sculpture was first sparked while hunting for clay with his grandmother in northern Uganda – an area that became infamous for the terrifying raids led by the … Continue reading Peter Oloya – the Ugandan LRA child soldier who moulded a new future in art
Errol Lloyd hopes for emergence of new crop of writers, as Newcastle exhibition opens By Aina J Khan | Children and teenagers An artist who illustrated the first British children’s picture book featuring a Black main character almost 50 years ago says not enough Black children’s writers or illustrators have come to prominence since then. The Jamaican-born illustrator Errol Lloyd was nominated for a Kate Greenaway medal for his illustrations for My Brother Sean, written by the late British-Surinamese author Petronella Breinburg. Published in 1973, the book follows a Black child who starts at nursery school. It was the first British children’s picture book from a … Continue reading My Brother Sean illustrator laments lack of Black children’s authors
Margaret Rarru Garrawurra, a senior Yolngu artist from Arnhem Land, wove 2-8m-high ‘monumental’ pandanus sail over several months Indigenous art | 5 Aug. 2022 A “monumental” hand-woven pandanus sail symbolising the centuries-long relationship between Yolngu of Arnhem Land and their Macassan neighbours in Indonesia, has taken out first prize in the prestigious National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art awards (Natsiaa). Margaret Rarru Garrawurra, a senior Yolngu artist from Lanarra in Arnhem Land, created the stunning 2.8m-high hand-woven pandanus sail over several months of daily work. Garrawurra, who won the bark painting award in 2005, said she is “proud and happy” to win the main prize … Continue reading Natsiaa 2022: Indigenous artist Rarru wins first prize with hand-woven sail
At the dawn of the Harlem Renaissance, Augusta Savage fought racism to earn acclaim as a sculptor, showing her work alongside de Kooning and Dalí. But the path she forged is also her legacy. In 1937, the sculptor Augusta Savage was commissioned to create a sculpture that would appear at the 1939 New York World’s Fair in Queens, N.Y. Savage was one of only four women, and the only Black artist, to receive a commission for the fair. In her studio in Harlem, she created “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” a 16-foot sculpture cast in plaster and inspired by the song of the same name — … Continue reading The Black Woman Artist Who Crafted a Life She Was Told She Couldn’t Have
We have known Jenkins as a portraitist. In his reimagining of Colson Whitehead’s novel, he is a virtuosic landscape artist. Illustration by Matt Williams In Barry Jenkins’s reimagining of Colson Whitehead’s popular novel “The Underground Railroad,” it is as if the land speaks. In the light of high noon, cotton fields are menacingly fecund, owing to the work of the enslaved laborers who stand painfully erect among the crop, like stalks themselves. At night, a path leading somewhere—whether to freedom or execution, we don’t know—pulses with death. We have known Jenkins, the director of “Moonlight,” as a portraitist. Here, working again with his longtime collaborator, the … Continue reading The Achievement of Barry Jenkins’s “The Underground Railroad”
In “Sad Beauty,” directed by Arjan Brentjes, a young artist contracts a deadly bacterial infection and begins to see hallucinatory messages from the natural world. The story behind the film. THE NEW YORKER Continue reading Living in an Age of Extinction
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