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This weekend, Charlotte will host “A Spectacular Black Girl Art Show.” The event will display and celebrate the work of over 70 Black female artists.
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It's Art Month in Nigeria — and a highlight is the celebration of art that is Art X, a wide-ranging fair that highlights "Black portraiture" as well as other creations from the continent.
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Iranians in Charlotte continue to speak out against Iran's Islamic Republic regime and cope — by creating art. Behzad Riazi, a Charlotte-based Iranian artist and cartoonist, immigrated in 2017. After earning his MFA at Penn State, he returned to Charlotte in 2022 to pursue art full-time.
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Sorayda Díaz León launched Vozes, an online platform about immigrant artists and creators, inspired by the immigrants she met in Charlotte.
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A new art installation asks people and institutions to go beyond land acknowledgements — and give property back to Indigenous tribes.
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One of this year's MacArthur fellows — the so-called 'genius grant' — the artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons is inspired by her family's African roots, her Cuban childhood and modern American life.
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Charlotte-based spoken word artist and poet Hannah Hasan is in high demand these days. She’s created and performed customized poetry for different organizations and people all over the city and across the country. For Hasan, telling people’s stories is a privilege — and what she does for a living.
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Kenyan-British artist Michael Armitage painted "Curfew" after a violent flare-up in Mombasa, Kenya, during the early days of the pandemic. One art critic calls it a "modern masterpiece."
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The late pop culture icon once said he painted over 30,000 works of art in his lifetime, but it's rare for an authenticated Ross piece to come on the market, let alone one with this much history.
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Colombian artist Fernando Botero has died at the age of 91. "I don't paint fat women," he once told Spain's El Mundo newspaper, "I am interested in volume, the sensuality of the form."