“Re-Seed,” Urban Glass

Walking into Gene Koss’s studio in Belle Chasse, Louisiana—a corrugated metal industrial building a half hour’s drive across the river from central New Orleans—the first thing you see is a sculpture model. Read More

“African Odyssey,” Tucson Weekly

Now mounted in a sumptuous exhibition at the University of Arizona Museum of Art, “Robert Colescott: Recent Paintings” first went up at the Venice Biennale a year and a half ago. The work of UA professor emeritus Colescott, these extravagantly colored, politically charged narrative paintings were the U.S. entry in the 1997 international art fair. Colescott was the first American painter since Jasper Johns in 1988 to be thus honored, and the first ever African-American artist to represent the U.S. with a solo show. Read More

“Mocking Black Stereotypes, a Black Artist Makes Waves”, People

Seattle is a low-key, convivial town, but when the Robert Colescott retrospective opens at the Seattle Art Museum next week, it may put some acid in the placid rain. In Cincinnati, a woman marched into the museum before the show opened and vociferously declared the artist’s work to be insulting to blacks. Read More