“The ways that artists try to usurp the canon. Either supplanting white figures or bringing them to the fore, adopting tropes of European portraiture but using a Black figure.” Stokes calls ...

A range of interpretations and depictions of the Black figure is currently on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (through February 9). Organized by British writer and curator Ekow Eshun ...

If we need new ways of thinking about Black figurative art and how it fits into the canon, Kouoh’s presentation seems to argue that we also need new kinds of spaces within the museum itself.

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Contemporary artists shine in The Time Is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure. Artist Thomas J. Price has a work on view called As Sound Turned to Noise ...

Philadelphia Museum of Art's newest exhibit, "The Time Is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure," features 28 Black and African diasporic contemporary artists who use figurative painting ...

Let us know! The new temporary exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, “The Time Is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure,” features work by 28 contemporary Black artists depicting life ...

Images courtesy of the artists and Niru Ratnam, London, Hollybush Gardens, London, Gagosian, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Casey Kaplan, New York, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, and Hauser & Wirth ...

He belongs to a group of exceptional young Black painters whose ease about appropriating the canon, ambition and urgency to speak for the moment are giving figurative painting a new lease of life ...