A 1971 portrait of the artist Stanley Whitney painted by Barkley Hendricks is poised to break a record for the artists when it is offered at auction in May. The painting, titled “Stanley,” picture its titular subject in street clothes standing against a gold background and smoking a cigarette. It will be offered during a…
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Years ago, if you told Marque Richardson that one day he’d be working alongside Delroy Lindo and playing Kerry Washington’s love interest, he’d be in utter disbelief. “I never, in my life, thought that this day was even possible,” Richardson said. “Let alone one of them, let alone two of them, let alone being in…
If you wanted to make a Disney-style animation of, say, Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, furiously repealing a special tax status, you’d have a lead animator draw the extremes of the action: DeSantis screwing up his face in an angry pout, perhaps, and then declaring, “There’s a new sheriff in town!” Then you’d bring in what’s…
Artwork about abortion is, historically speaking, vanishingly rare. And the future display of such work seems dimmer after a small public college in Idaho removed six works about abortion and birth control from an exhibition, citing a state anti-abortion law. Lewis-Clark State College, in Lewiston, removed the works days before the opening this month of…