BK Adams

Expo Chicago: Chicago, April 25-27 Expo Chicago, established in 2012, was acquired by Frieze in 2023. The 2024 edition had 170 galleries from 29 countries...

The Washington, D.C.–based painter and sculptor BK Adams recently brought The Messenger: Time , a three story-tall sculpture, to Louisville’s Outsider Art Museum . The...

The Messenger: Time, a 25-foot tall, 38-foot long blue horse sculpture, was unveiled in the Portland neighborhood on Wednesday evening. The 3,300 pound steel sculpture...

A group show featuring BK Adams, Barbara Earl Thomas, Stan Squirewell, LaNia Roberts, and Carolyn Mazloomi examines how each artist grapples with temporality in their...

The artist Connor Tingley, in collaboration with Curren Caples, a skateboarder, explores the intersections between music, skateboarding and painting. The Claire Oliver Gallery from Harlem...

Elsewhere, American visual artist and sculptor BK Adams’ 25-foot-tall, 20-foot-long The Messenger, Time, A Blue (collar) Horse (2023) will tower within the venue. An interpretation...

Philosopher and artist BK Adams ‘ debut solo exhibition at the esteemed Claire Oliver Gallery in Harlem, NY, represents a pivotal milestone in his artistic...

Time Out says Southern wives' tales, folklore and fables—these are the works that inspired BK Adams' upcoming exhibition at the Claire Oliver Gallery in Harlem....

Harlem’s Claire Oliver Gallery Presents BK Adams’ “Five Miles”: A Multilayered Exhibition of Symbolism and Inspiration. Harlem’s Claire Oliver Gallery is thrilled to unveil an...

Sales appeared promising during the first day of Expo Chicago , the US Midwest’s largest art fair, as dealers said the city’s art scene is...

Harlem’s Claire Oliver Gallery had success with artist Gio Swaby, whose work is the focus of a just-opened solo show at the Art Institute of...

“For the past 10 years, the exposition has created a setting for the outgrowth of art and ideas, and our programs have always been a...

As across the rest of the year, contemporary art presentations abound throughout the third coast hub, including Gio Swaby: Fresh Up at the Art Institute...

If you’re among the many who saw the craziness around the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture and thought, “Maybe...

By the time Peggy Cooper Cafritz died earlier this year, she had worked her way from a childhood in the Jim Crow South to become...

The respected arts patron and educator also left 250 works to the Washington, DC, high school the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. Cofounded by...

The gift to the Studio Museum encompasses a multigenerational who’s who of artists of African descent, and will both bolster and add to the strengths...

The Studio Museum in Harlem and Duke Ellington School of the Arts were bequeathed with a historic donation of works by Peggy Cooper Cafritz, revered...

“I was offered the 6,000 square foot sculpture garden and thought that was the greatest idea,” says the DC native who’s Mynd Alive exhibition is...

For the first time, an award has been established to recognize an artist working east of the river whose achievements have “enriched the arts in...

B.K. Adams, who is known throughout D.C. as the “Art Man” the ubiquitous artist in the French beret, who wears painter’s pants and World War...

A Jackson Pollock-esque spatter seems to follow Washington, D.C.-based artist BK Adams wherever he goes, whether it be on his pants, his hands or his...

The Anacostia Community Museum presents the one-man show “Exercise Your Mynd—BK Adams I Am Art” on view Aug. 22 through Nov. 27—the largest compilation of...