The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Curated by Helen Molesworth, Dieter Roelstraete, and Ian Alteveer
Reviewed by Diana Tuite
Tag: African American art
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago
Curated by Fahim Majeed
Reviewed by Elaine Y. Yau
Scottsdale in the spring is a chaotic convergence of spring training and outdoor art festivals. At the cultural epicenter is the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, which recently featured a late-career retrospective of the distinguished artist Betye Saar (b. 1926).
If American modernism had a soundtrack, it would be jazz. A homegrown genre, its music came to define the burgeoning northern cities, the cultural forms of black expression, and an avant-garde impetus to question established boundaries.
Kara Walker, the renowned and controversial African American artist, was the subject of a major survey exhibition, Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love, which was organized by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and was presented there from February 17, 2007 through May 11, 2008
