It could not have been a more dramatic scene in my hometown, more suited for a made-for-TV movie than a fine-arts news story—a raid removing forgeries hung in a respected museum. On Friday, June 24, 2022, the FBI descended on the Orlando Museum of Art during operation hours, and dozens of agents swarmed through theContinue reading “No Heroes, Only Monsters: Fake Jean-Michel Basquiat Paintings Shown at the Orlando Museum of Art”
Author Archives: Tamara White
An Interview with Art Collector, Sara Vance Waddell
Interviewed by Dr. Anu M. Mitra and featuring art from the Vance Waddell Collection Sara Vance Waddell is one of the foremost collectors of art by women and artists of color, including those recently incarcerated. Her Midwest-based art collection is significant, and she routinely loans her work to important museum exhibitions and collections all overContinue reading “An Interview with Art Collector, Sara Vance Waddell”
The REVOLT of artist Doreen Lynette Garner
Sculptor and performance artist Doreen Lynette Garner is currently exhibiting at The New Museum in New York City. Her show REVOLTED presents a series of sculptures highlighting extreme and cruel medical experimentation on individuals of color. The artist is using her work to tell the history of the enduring effects of racial violence in theContinue reading “The REVOLT of artist Doreen Lynette Garner”
The Art of Graciousness
graciousness [ grey-shuhs-nis ] the quality or state of being benevolent, courteous, and kind: noun A mere three days ago, many in our country participated in a holiday celebrating the United States. Chicago witnessed the latest carnage due to a semi-automatic weapon mowing down parade attendees. Instead of using this space to celebrate our country or writingContinue reading “The Art of Graciousness”
A Visit to Montgomery
Today is Juneteenth. The federal holiday in the United States recognizes and commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans. On this day in 1865, under general order No. 3 by the Union Army General Gordon Granger, it proclaimed freedom for enslaved people in Texas. Despite the years that have passed since its origin, it wasContinue reading “A Visit to Montgomery”
2022… I Guess You Could Say It’s Been Quite a Year
UIU doctorate student Ben Samples shares with us his personal journey of watching the war in Ukraine from afar. My wife, Sveta, and I just welcomed our second child—our son—into the world during the latter part of 2021. This year, we celebrated New Year’s with just the four of us, and as a testament toContinue reading “2022… I Guess You Could Say It’s Been Quite a Year”