Author: Harold Smith
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Kemper Museum Presents Dawoud Bey Photographs from the Bill and Christy Gautreaux Collection
It is supremely fitting that the last few lines of celebrated Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes’ poem “Dreams” provides the inspiration for the title of “Night Coming Tenderly, Black,” a body of work of profound significance by renowned Chicago-based photographer Dawoud Bey.
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“Kwanza Humphrey: The Human Experience,” Bunker Center for the Arts
In the last few years in museums and galleries across the nation, figurative portraiture by Black American artists has been enjoying a renaissance and long overdue attention from curators, academicians, and collectors. Kansas City is not absent in this renaissance, and one of the artists we can thank for that is gifted painter Kwanza Humphrey.







