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The Art World Loves Basketballs. And Hoops and Jerseys and Backboards.

The Art World Loves Basketballs. And Hoops and Jerseys and Backboards.

The Art World Loves Basketballs. And Hoops and Jerseys and Backboards.

Andrew Keh writes for the New York Times about the rising visibility of basketball art. 


Read the article here.


Image: An exhibit of basketball-inspired art called “To the Hoop” at the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, N.C., including “Akhet 1” by David Huffman and “Well Hung” by Suzanne McClelland. Martin W. Kane for UNCG University Communications, 2020.

The Art World Loves Basketballs. And Hoops and Jerseys and Backboards.

The Art World Loves Basketballs. And Hoops and Jerseys and Backboards.

An exhibit of basketball-inspired art called “To the Hoop” at the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensb

Paint Days in Hell's Kitchen with Project Backboard

Paint Days in Hell's Kitchen with Project Backboard

Paint Days in Hell's Kitchen with Project Backboard

Blake Gillespie, journalist, photographer, and writer at Sacred Hoops, visits Faith Ringgold's  court at St.Nicholas Park in Harlem and helps Project Backboard renovate a court with artist Andrea Bergart at McCaffrey Playground, in New York City.


See the photos and read the essay here. 

Paint Days in Hell's Kitchen with Project Backboard

Paint Days in Hell's Kitchen with Project Backboard

LOST [in translation] - May 7, 2002

LOST [in translation] - May 7, 2002

LOST [in translation] - May 7, 2002

LOST [in translation] arrives on the twenty-year anniversary of one of  sports most iconic, and one of sports media’s most exploitative, moments.  LOST [in translation] re-focuses the lens on this moment in order to highlight what the media overlooked and correct a misrepresentation that has persisted for two decades...      


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LOST [in translation] - May 7, 2002

LOST [in translation] - May 7, 2002

38a Artist Talk w/ the Common Practice Editors

38a Artist Talk w/ the Common Practice Editors

38a Artist Talk w/ the Common Practice Editors

 Sean Beauford, director of residencies at 38a in East Liberty, Pittsburgh, PA, speaks with Carlos Rolón, John Dennis and Dan  Peterson, the editors of Common Practice: Basketball & Contemporary Art, on the occasion of the exhibition, Xs and O's.


Watch the conversation here.

38a Artist Talk w/ the Common Practice Editors

38a Artist Talk w/ the Common Practice Editors

Shooting hoops: a visual celebration of basketball

Shooting hoops: a visual celebration of basketball

Shooting hoops: a visual celebration of basketball

A new book brings together the works of 250 artists, among them Richard Avedon, Salvador Dalí, Keith Haring and Andy Warhol, to offer an inclusive view of the sport from the modern lens. 


Huck Magazine

Posted Wednesday 19th May, 2021 

Text by Miss Rosen 

Photography © Joel Meyerowitz (main image)


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Shooting hoops: a visual celebration of basketball

Shooting hoops: a visual celebration of basketball