Introducing the Black Painters Academy, a New School Dedicated to Black Art History

Good morning. ⛅ Today, Philip Guston’s only surviving mural in California, Alina Szapocznikow’s bodil

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Good morning. ⛅ Today, Philip Guston’s only surviving mural in California, Alina Szapocznikow’s bodily sculptures, films to stream for gender awareness week, and an art school that focuses on the Black painting tradition.– Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

A New School Dedicated to Black Art History

A painting by Azikiwe Mohammed, “Places I’ve Been With Helicopters #3 / A Modern Zong Massacre” (2020), acrylic and gouache on board, 40 x 24 inches (courtesy of the artist and Mindy Solomon Gallery)

The Black Painters Academy, conceived by artist Azikiwe Mohammed, hopes to shift the trend of painting classes focused largely on white, Western artists.Muhammed says of his project:“It’s always this overarching white history starting point that everybody’s coming from. The object is disseminated throughout the entire room, and everybody paints the same thing, further spreading that history.”

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