Artists

Howardena Pindell Is Still Breaking Down Barriers for Black Artists

admin10 months ago026 mins

When the 82-year-old artist Howardena Pindell was a child, she saw herself in the face of a mummy. This was at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, in the late 1940s or early 1950s — she can’t quite remember the year. But she clearly recalls the painting, an eerily naturalistic Fayum portrait from Roman Egypt, which…

How PaJaMa’s Erotic Photographs Inspired a Generation of Artists

admin11 months ago09 mins

FOR ABOUT 20 years, beginning in the late 1930s, the New York-based artist Paul Cadmus, a satirist whose egg tempera paintings included scenes of drunken carousing and other lustful behavior, spent summers by the sea with his lover Jared French and French’s wife, Margaret Hoening French, both also painters. The trio — who called themselves…