French luxury house
Dior has tapped into the new black diaspora, presenting its Men’s Summer 2021 collection, which is inspired the rich cultural history of many countries across Africa with the help of Ghanian painter Amoako Boafo. Men’s Artistic Director Kim Jones met with the Vienna-trained artist Boafo back at the Rubell Museum in Miami and the two immediately clicked, sharing a vision of showing the world a contemporary portrait of the fashion beauty in Africa now. Jones, spending a lot of time in his childhood in countries across the continent Botswana, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Kenya and Ghana and Boafo’s celebrated works exploring his own identity and perceptions of blackness through his own works led this to be a perfect marriage. And what would ultimately become the building narrative for this Men’s Summer 2021 collection, a conversation between Jones and Boafo transposed onto these wonderfully expressive, couture clothes.
Texas museum hosts groundbreaking exhibition of 30 Black artists Feb 15, 2021, 10:30 am A work by Kehinde Wiley will be part of the exhibition but likely not his portrait of Barack Obama.
Image courtesy of Kehinde Wiley The Arlington Museum of Art in North Texas is set to host the landmark traveling exhibition 30 Americans this summer. Described in a release as showcasing works by 30 emerging and established African American artists of the last three decades, the list of artists on display includes marquee names like
Kara Walker, Perhaps the most noteworthy of all is
Kehinde Wiley, who famously was chosen to paint the official portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama. (The Obamas portraits won t be in the Arlington exhibition, but they will be on view at a Houston museum in 2022.)
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Arlington exhibition will showcase 30 world-famous Black artists Feb 5, 2021, 9:17 am A work by Kehinde Wiley will be part of the exhibition but likely not his portrait of Barack Obama.
Image courtesy of Kehinde Wiley The Arlington Museum of Art is set to host the landmark traveling exhibition 30 Americans this summer. Described in a release as showcasing works by 30 emerging and established African American artists of the last three decades, the list of artists on display includes marquee names like
Kara Walker, Perhaps the most noteworthy of all is
Kehinde Wiley, who famously was chosen to paint the official portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama. (The Obamas portraits won t be in the Arlington exhibition, but they will be on view at a Houston museum in 2022.)