While Kavi Gupta’s galleries remain closed in support of measures to flatten the COVID-19 curve, the Kavi Gupta team remains focused on supporting culture and its artists at a time when we all need it….
Jeffrey Gibson selected for 2019 Whitney Biennial
Kavi Gupta congratulates Jeffrey Gibson on his inclusion in the seventy-ninth Whitney Biennial. The Whitney Museum of American Art announced the seventy-five artists who have been selected to present work in the biennial, which is considered…
United States Artists Names 2019 Fellows, Including Firelei Báez, Wu Tsang, and Cecilia Vicuña
The Chicago-based nonprofit United States Artists has revealed its list of 2019 fellows, who will each receive an unrestricted $50,000 cash prize. The 45 fellows this year, who are all based in the U.S., were…
11 Female Artists Reinvent the Lady Dior Bag
For the third edition of “Lady Dior Art”, the house entrusted its iconic bag to eleven renowned artists. At the request of Maria Grazia Chiuri, 11 women have been invited to collaborate with the fashion…
Indomitable: African American artists in ‘On Their Own Terms’ at UA Little Rock UA Little Rock shows how African-American artists make art ‘On Their Own Terms.’
The New York Herald writer who said in an article in 1867 that African Americans could not produce art was ignorant of the work of such talents as Edward Bannister, Robert Scott Duncanson, Charles Ethan…
LADY DIOR | MICKALENE THOMAS
BY PAULETTE ELY The Lady Dior bag is not only iconic, but also the tangible trophy of this intersection of women and success in modern art and fashion. As any bag should be, Lady Dior…
Studio Museum acquires AfriCOBRA works
“AfriCOBRA (African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists), an African-American artist collective, was founded in 1968, the same year as The Studio Museum in Harlem. In November 2018, the Museum acquired five works by Barbara Jones-Hogu…
AFRICOBRA: Messages to the People
November 27, 2018 – April 7, 2019 Artists: Sherman Beck Jeff Donaldson Jae Jarrell Wadsworth Jarrell Napoleon Jones-Henderson Barbara Jones-Hogu Omar Lama Carolyn Mims Lawrence Nelson Stevens Gerald Williams Artist Reception: December 6, 8-11 In…
Firelei Báez – Berlin Biennale
Kavi Gupta congratulates Firelei Báez on her participation in the 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art titled “We don’t need another hero”. This year’s biennale takes place from June 9 to September 9, 2018 at various locations in…