He helped create Buckwheat, Mister Robinson and other characters Mr. Murphy played on “Saturday Night Live,” and was a writer of films like “Coming to America.” By Richard Sandomir Barry Blaustein, a ...

As a young girl growing up in Atlanta, Charlotte Newman was exposed to the transformative power of art through her parents and godmother, the renowned painter and mixed-media artist Tina Dunkley. That ...

Writing from the Chicagoland area in Illinois, Robert is an avid movie watcher and will take just about any excuse to find time to go to his local movie theaters. Robert graduated from Bradley ...

This month offers a Valentine’s Saturday, a Fat Tuesday and a month of Black history, plus the Harlem Globetrotters and a last call for Gumby. By Erik Piepenburg Native American dance traditions take ...

Marc Jacobs isn’t getting any California love from billboard queen Angelyne, it seems. The designer recently debuted his new “The City” tote collection with bags inspired by Paris, New York and LA — ...

You can expect to see Princess Leia, Marge Simpson, Wilma Flintstone, Barbie, and even the original Charlie’s Angels. And don’t forget every other pop culture icon or cartoon character that was ever ...

At 19, Alteronce Gumby left Harrisburg without knowing who Picasso was. He returns to his hometown this week a world traveler with an international reputation as an abstract painter and budding ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. In 2023, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art presented Master ...

If you’ve got the resources, collecting art can be a great joy. If you’re one of the Henry Clay Fricks of the world, you might amass three of the world’s 37 known Johannes Vermeer paintings, along ...

MANITOWOC – Gumby’s Club Fore a Cure reached a fundraising milestone this year — giving away more than $1 million to recipients over 14 years of giving. The nonprofit organization typically gives ...

Alexander Gumby, Harlem’s bibliophile-archivist-historian extraordinaire, at his Columbia University desk in 1950. That was when he gave his scrapbooks devoted to Black life and lore to their library ...