Florida Highwaymen: Segregation causes black artists to sell work from cars
A movement of African American painters in the 1950s and 60s was born in Fort Pierce, leading to many making a living doing ...
Daily Texan1d
‘Sing Sing’ songwriters Adrian Quesada, Abraham Alexander talk Oscar nomination for ‘Like A Bird’
Students gathered in the G.B. Dealey Center for New Media on Monday to hear from Oscar nominees Adrian Quesada, a UT studio ...
FYI: Event Saturday in Bastrop honors former U.S. Treasurer Azie Taylor Morton
An event to honor Azie Taylor Morton, the first and only African American to serve as U.S. treasurer, will take place ...
What’s going on with the Kennedy Center under Trump?
Until a few weeks ago, the biggest news to come out of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., was its annual celebration of ...
Texas Standard2d
Meet pioneering Austin DJ and In Black America host John L. Hanson Jr.
John L. Hanson Jr. was born in Detroit, Michigan. Growing up in the ’60s the radio was the first thing he heard in the morning and the last thing he heard at night t ...
Daily Texan3d
After 30 years in Austin Convention Center, four local artists’ works face deaccession, lose their space in city
Paula Priour walked along Waller Creek with her husband, Damian, collecting debris along the creek for Damian’s commissioned sculpture for the Austin Convention Center. Now, Priour is pulling together ...
Holocaust tourism and what art has to say about it
Dark tourism refers to the visiting of "incidences of death, disaster and atrocity" made while still "within living memory," ...
The Austin Chronicle8d
When the Convention Center Is Demolished, 30 Years of Public Art Is Going With It
Finished in 2002, the piece has been ingrained in the architecture of the Austin Convention Center for over 20 years. It was ...
‘The people’s painter’ left mark in Black art internationally — but shined in NC hometown
Langston Hughes is known as the people’s poet. I would say Biggers is the people’s painter. The man and the work are one.” ...
Greek Reporter10d
John Craxton: The British Painter with a Greek Soul
British painter John Craxton, who lived from 1922 until 2009, is known for his iconic depiction of his beloved second ...
A US Congressman, his enslaved half-brothers and the history of an Austin log farmstead
Judge John Hancock kept his half-brothers in bondage until Juneteenth in 1865. He educated his own half-Black son who became ...
FOX 7 Austin KTBC10d
John Krinjak
John lives in Austin with his dog ... But scammers are targeting some artists with fake SXSW invitations requiring them to pay to perform. Education is dominating the debate at the Texas Capitol ...