Picking up a pastry bag caked with pastel pink paint, Yvette Mayorga eyes one of six large, semi-autobiographical canvases ...

It has been said and often that Purvis Young is to Overtown ... the Picasso of the ghetto,” Young said in an interview for a publication for the Art Museum of DeLand, which in 2020 organized ...

The de Young Museum opened in 1895 and is home to American art from the 17th century through today, textile arts and costumes, African art, Oceanic art, arts of the Americas and international ...

Organized by The Art Museum, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN Purvis Young Urban Painter Retrospective 1969-2004, Hurn Museum of Contemporary Folk Art, Savannah, GA Rock Paper Scissors: American ...

"Nature gave us the perfect art form. Nature doesn't make any mistakes," she says smiling. Trained in Japan, she's brought her creations to life over four decades at the de Young Museum's annual ...

Pompano Beach Arts, in conjunction with FATVillage Arts District, will present the acclaimed works of the late Florida artist Purvis Young ... the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City ...

The strongest addition to the de Young Museum’s permanent collection in recent memory — a timely update — encapsulates contemporary Bay Area visual art in works that examine the blur between ...

Notre-Dame de Paris and the British Museum. Bakehouse Art Complex, a Miami arts organization, received a grant to preserve a mural by Miami artist Purvis Young. Courtesy of RLA Conservation The ...

On the east wall of Bakehouse Art Complex, a nonprofit collective of artist studios in Wynwood, is a mural by Purvis ... the British Museum. The grant affirms the importance of Young’s legacy ...

Purvis Young’s Miami was a sweaty Miami. A sticky, stifling, urban Miami. No beaches. No sea breezes. No nightclub bottle service. His Miami was the Overtown neighborhood, one of the city’s ...

What if, instead of glossing over the specifics of major historical traumas with broad words like “colonialism” or “slavery,” we asked questions that explored how those traumas manifest today?