In the spring of 1921, white residents of Tulsa, Okla., burned down the city's black district and murdered scores of African-Americans — men, women, and children. Historians have called it “the single ...

“Me saying hi to you is me welcoming you into the space and saying I see you, I see you,” said Mark Bradford to those gathered at the opening of his new exhibition “You Don’t Have to Tell Me Twice” at ...

SEOUL, South Korea, Aug. 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Amorepacific Museum of Art (Director: Seungchang Jeon) is proud to present Mark Bradford: Keep Walking, the first solo exhibition in South Korea by the ...

VENICE, Italy – It’s late August and I’ve come to this city only to find America at the world’s largest, most ambitious, thrilling and frustrating — in equal measure — contemporary art exposition. The ...

LA artist Mark Bradford’s large, abstract paintings typically convey orderly chaos. A colorful collision of lines. Shadows. Texture. From a distance, they can look like aerial maps of city streets. He ...

Mark Bradford is widely considered one of the most important and influential artists in America today. As Anderson Cooper first reported this past spring, Bradford's abstract canvases, which often ...

I am of two minds about the early work of Mark Bradford. The elegance of his typically large-scale paintings is undeniable. The surfaces are beautiful — sometimes extraordinarily beautiful — yet at ...

Nearly ten years since his last solo show in New York, Los Angeles–based artist Mark Bradford has overtaken all three floors at Hauser & Wirth’s 22nd Street gallery. You Don’t Have to Tell Me Twice ...

In beauty salons, end papers are used to make permanent waves for a Jheri curl, the glossy hairstyle that was popular among African Americans in the ’80s. They protect hair from being overheated by ...

On East Lancaster Avenue in Fort Worth, Texas—along a short stretch of road between Church’s Chicken and Lone Star Motors II—you will encounter, until early July, two rather unusual billboards. One, ...

Born in 1961 in South Central Los Angeles, Bradford is known for his monumental abstract paintings that interweave personal history with broader social narratives. Drawing from his autobiographical ...