In This Issue

SCENE columns on recent and current art exhibitions and the Art Basel Miami Beach international fair with commentary by art historians Tosha Grantham, Derek Murray, Margaret Vendryes, Alvia Wardlaw, appraiser Michael Chisolm, gallerist Mytis Bedolla and others.  Notes on new books.

Articles:

"The Richest Colors on Her Palette? Beauty and Truth" on "lost artist" Gwendolyn Bennett, a trailblazing illustrator, painter, art critic and art administrator of the Harlem Renaissance and WPA eras.

"In Search of Gwendolyn Bennett": how the above article came to be.

"Hughie Lee-Smith and Cold War Aesthetics of Alienation": an examination of how a repressive 1950s
cultural zeitgeist influenced the desolate imagery of Lee-Smith.  The work of his social surrealist artist
contemporary, Ben Shahn, also is examined within this context.

"A Look Under the Canvas at the Correspondence Informing the Art of Benny Andrews."  The evolution of the artist is revealed through his personal correspondence with mentors, friends and relatives.

"From Historical Awareness to Endless Possibilities, the Ideas of Jon Lockard." A look at a Black Arts Movement ethos taken to virtuosic levels.    

"Perfectly Illogical," the paintings of Tonya Ingersol. Ingersol’s "paintings reflect a surreal
concurrence between painstakingly staged settings, antagonistic human relations, and the absurdity of material conceptions of various social constructs."

"Index," a profile of Valerie Cassel Oliver, a curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.

"The Sculptor as Designer as Yogi," a profile of Orlando Dominguez

"Superior to Circumstance – The Splendor Within," an "Art, Body and Soul" column on visually-impaired sculptor Chappelle Letman.

"At HU." Art news from Hampton University.

"Remembering Roy DeCarava" through his first solo show at The Studio Museum in 1969.

An appreciation of Paul Farwell Keene Jr., 1920–2009.

An Artist of the Past that You Should Know: Irene Clark.