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"Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" is the first Costume Institute exhibit to focus exclusively on Black designers, and the ...
American artist Kehinde Wiley unveiled a series of large-format portraits of African leaders in Morocco earlier this month, ...
When the email came from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jacques Agbobly at first didn’t quite believe it. The Brooklyn-based fashion designer had only been in the business for five years. Now, one of ...
This year's Costume Institute spring exhibition and Met Gala are honouring black "dandy" style, and the tradition of bold ...
The artwork borrows from classical easel painting techniques, posing African leaders ... to Obama’s, the portraits also echo Wiley’s earlier works, in which young Black men appear in poses ...
The artwork borrows from classical easel painting techniques, posing African leaders in a style ... In addition to Obama’s, the portraits also echo Wiley’s earlier works, in which young Black men ...
The collection was about "gay men of African descent who generally ... who had built his archive from vintage group portraits of African Americans that he "purchased on Ebay, at flea markets ...
On Tuesday, Wiley unveiled his new collection of large-format portraits of African leaders at the Mohammed ... which often feature young Black men in poses inspired by traditional European ...
In 1917, around 10,000 African Americans took part in the Silent Protest Parade down New York's Fifth Avenue, the men in black tailored ... part of a series of self-portraits by Udé, we see ...