Houston’s Art Car Parade, the city’s biggest free art event, returns for its 38th year from April 10-13. The four-day celebration includes the Main Street Drag, family activities ...

Katie Chandler, who oversees the visitor experience at the Columbia Museum of Art in South Carolina, stands next to "The Sugar Shack" and two other paintings by Ernie Barnes. As for how “The ...

GUEST: Ernie Barnes was a former NFL player. He played for the Jets. But after football, he found art as being, I guess, part of his livelihood. And we all are familiar with Sugar Shack.

Ernie Barnes Family Trust “The Sugar Shack” is included with general museum admission at The Mint Museum Uptown, 500 S. Tryon St. The painting is on display in the American Art galleries on ...

The final public art exhibition Barnes would host came in October 2007 in New York City. The exhibit — A Tribute to Artist and NFL Alumni Ernie Barnes — was sponsored in part by the NFL. Barnes passed ...

“He defined what art was for Black people during that time.” Image “Blood Conference, a.k.a. Three Red Linemen” (1966).Credit...Courtesy of the Ernie Barnes Estate, Ortuzar Projects and ...

The are also two drawings, “Saxophone Study #1” (1993) and “Study for Brother to Brother” (1994), Art News reports. “Ernie Barnes is an iconic Black artist my family and I have long ...

“Ernie Barnes’ artwork played a profound role in creating societal change, and we hope this partnership will similarly inspire, uplift and make a lasting difference in the lives of individuals ...