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Bisa Butler is an American artist who quilts empowering depictions of the Black community, including prominent figures to everyday people. History is often a major source of inspiration for the New Jersey-native, from a tributary piece she created of the oft-forgotten Harlem Hellfighters brigade of WWI, to her latest solo exhibition, which subtly pays homage to Nas' seminal record, Illmatic. Housed at Jeffrey Deitch in New York, The World is Yours presents new large-scale quilts that are made in collaboration with several acclaimed contemporary photographers, including Gordon Parks, Janette Beckman and Jamel Shabazz. “They captured the spirit of their subjects on film,” Butler said in a statement, “and I strive to reinterpret and add to their vision with textiles. The quilts become a conve...

Ellsworth Kelly is an artist that one immediately gets or brazenly shrugs away. Simplistic, but deeply meditative, his oeuvre feels as new today as it did when he first began in 1951. To celebrate 100 years since the artist's birth, Glenstone museum in Maryland is showcasing a major survey charting Kelly's longstanding impact on the world of abstract art. Aptly titled Ellsworth Kelly at 100, the show will include a number of seminal works, such as the chromatic Painting for a White Wall (1952) and Chatham V: Red Blue (1971), along with totemic wooden sculptures, preliminary sketches and watercolor illustrations. As the world emerged from the horrors of war, the '50s signaled a period of transition. So was the case in the world of art, which was notably led by the emergence of the Abstract ...