Artnet

Can a Colonial Museum Decolonize? Colonial Williamsburg’s Art Museum Just Used a $42 Million Renovation to Update the Story It Tells

The art museums at Colonial Williamsburg are reopening with a new renovation—and new research into the origins of their collections. The facade of the newly renovated Colonial Williamsburg Art Museums ...
Essence

While Colonial History Erases Black Contributions, This Exhibit Showcases Them

For the first time in history, the art museums of Colonial Williamsburg are offering an “exhibition of decorative and folk art collections exclusively crafted by Black artists from the 18 th to 21 st ...
The Progress-Index

Colonial Heights fine art gallery presents 'Virginia in Bloom' juried all media art show

COLONIAL HEIGHTS — In honor of Historic Garden Week, Side Street Gallery presents "Virginia in Bloom." The juried all media art show includes entries with floral, landscape and garden scenes. Saturday ...
Hyperallergic

Colonial Fault Lines Fracture the Madrid Art Landscape

A show at the Prado valorizes cross-cultural flows while muffling ruptures, and two contemporary art exhibitions critique Hispanic legacies to investigate how art history occludes power. Yet cultural ...
Hyperallergic

In Beatrice Glow's Art, Colonial Histories and AI Collide

James Wyld and Nathaniel Rogers Hewitt, "Eastern Hemisphere and Western Hemisphere" (c. 1827-38), ink on silk (all images Alice Procter/Hyperallergic) When museums use artists to address their ...
Daily Press

Colonial Williamsburg completes $41.7 million expansion of Art Museums

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation announced Monday the completion of the $41.7 million, 65,000-square-foot expansion of the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg, which has created new exhibition ...
Albuquerque Journal

Cultural creativity: Traditional Spanish Market showcases Spanish Colonial art by over 200 artists

Traditional Spanish Market, the oldest and largest juried art show of its kind, returns to Santa Fe this weekend. The market, which is in its 72nd year, draws visitors from around the world. It takes ...
The Virginian-Pilot

World Focus: In the belly of Colonial Williamsburg’s art museums

My editor recently forwarded me an email from Jessie Reid. The email said: “I was born and raised in Williamsburg, and I am a metalworker for the Colonial Williamsburg Art Museum. I would like to ...
PBS

‘It belongs to us!’: French trial over colonial art grows tense

PARIS (AP) — Is dislodging African artwork from a European museum a political statement, or a criminal act? That’s the question a French court weighed Wednesday in an emotionally charged trial ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

Cityline: Black art in colonial spaces

LOCAL BLACK ARTISTS IN THE SPOTLIGHT. THE WEEKLY COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER HAS CREATED A VIRTUAL ART GALLERY MAKING ART AND THE ARTISTS THEMSELVES MORE ACCESSIBLE. JOINING US NOW IS RON MITCHELL. HE’S ...
The Times Herald

Come together: Colonial School District Art Show features ‘The Art of Belonging’

PLYMOUTH — In general, dictionaries define “belonging” in terms of being treated as a full member of a given group and being comfortable with and accepted by that group. Such sentiments underpin ...