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  Courtesy of Arthur T, a view of the ramps up to a famous rooftop racetrack - the Fiat Lingotto factory in Turin, Italy (1923) - to lead us to a new open thread. Best wishes all, and please continue commenting.

  Great article:   https://artdaily.cc/news/134379/The-Black-woman-artist-who-crafted-a-life-she-was-told-she-couldn-t-have#.YGTBItXwZoE Also see  https://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/augusta-savage-renaissance-woman Organized by guest curator Jeffreen M. Hayes, Ph.D., the Augusta Savage: Renaissance Woman exhibition features nearly 80 works of art, including sculptures, paintings, and works on paper, and is the first to reassess Harlem Renaissance artist Augusta Savage’s contributions to art and cultural history in light of 21 st -century attention to the concept of the artist-activist. The fully illustrated companion catalogue presents the most up-to-date scholarly research, re-examines Savage’s place in the history of American sculpture and positions her as a leading figure who broke down the barriers she and her students encountered while seeking to participate fully in the art world.   A gifted sculptor, Savage (1892 - 1962) was born in Green Cove Springs and later became

Major Gift Celebrating Black American Artists of the 20th Century Jonathan Kantrowitz,  African-American Art  - 2 weeks ago Richard Mayhew, Overture, 2001; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, gift of the Joyner/Giuffrida Collection; © Richard Mayhew; photo: Katherine Du Tiel, courtesy SFMOMAHughie Lee-Smith, Two Boys, 1968; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, gift of the Joyner/Giuffrida Collection; © Estate of Hughie Lee-Smith/ARS (Artist Rights Society), New York; photo: Ian ReevesLoïs Mailou Jones, Peasants at Kenscoff, 1955; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, gift of the Joyner/Giuffrida Collection; © Estate of Loïs Mailou Jones; photo: Ian Reeves Elizabeth Catlett, Singing Head, 1968; San Franci... Black Women Artists from the Tubman Museum Collection Jonathan Kantrowitz,  African-American Art  - 4 weeks ago Ana Bel Lee (1926 – 2000) Wedding.*Tubman Museum* (ARTFIX*daily*.com) On March 5, 2021, the Tubman Museum will open an exhibition titled *A Mighty Chorus: Black Women*

  "Portrait of Yarrow Mamout (Mamoud Yarrow)," 1819, by Charles Willson Peale Oil on canvas, 24 × 20 inches. Image courtesy of Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2021. A Spotlight on Immigration, Colonialism, Trade, and Underrepresented Narratives On May 7, 2021, when the  Philadelphia Museum of Art  unveils its new Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Galleries dedicated to American art from 1650 to1850, visitors will enter a succession of generously proportioned spaces to experience the museum’s spectacular collection of early American art in an entirely new light. In galleries that will be accessed from a spacious corridor that provides superb views to the city skyline through windows with Tiffany iron grilles—original to the building but blocked for many decades—visitors will be presented with the first major reinstallation of early American art since the nation’s Bicentennial celebrations in 1976. Comprising 10,000 square feet, these new galleries will be mirrored by another range of ga