The 50 Top Art Collectors

Last week The New York Observer published an article and slide presentation on "The 50 Top Art Collectors." What insights does this article provide on the art market? on collecting? on artists?

Black Art in America has a dialogue about this topic that re-visits some key points on how the market is shaped. Black Art in America is a social network and resource site for art collectors and art professionals (artists, dealers, galleries, etc.) who focus on African-American art.

Please share your thoughts on this blog.

Art in the Atrium - January 28, 2011

From January 28 thru March 11, 2011, Art in the Atrium will hold its annual exhibition of African-American Art in Morristown, New Jersey. This year's theme is: Memories of Russell, in honor of the organization's founding board member, colleague, and friend, Russell Waldo Murray.
The opening reception will be held on Friday, January 28, between 6 and 9pm. The guest speaker is Dennis L. Forbes, author of Workspaces and Studios of African American Artists.

The exhibition and reception is free and open to the public.

Atrium Gallery
2nd. Floor thru 5th Floor
Admin &Records Bldg
10 Court Street
Morristown, NJ 07960

Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present

The Newark Museum will be exhibiting Posing Beauty, an exploration of African American images found in the media with both historical and contemporary contexts, from February 2nd to April 28, 2011. Posing Beauty contains approximately 100 images drawn from private and public collections that look at understandings of beauty through the lens of aesthetics, race, class and gender in art and popular culture.

The exhibit draws its title from the book written by the exhibition curator, and noted historian of black photography, Dr. Deborah Willis, Chair of the Photography and Imaging Department at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts.