Getting “Bisa Butler: Portraits” before the public has been a struggle against COVID-19 from the start. Days before the exhibition of the artist’s extraordinary and ebullient quilted portraits of ...

Bisa Butler’s intricate portrait quilts are often based on found black-and-white photographs of Black people—some famous, some anonymous, some familial. The New Jersey-based artist can spend thousands ...

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Inspired by iconic black and white photos, Bisa Butler has created life-size portraits of African Americans in quilts that explode with color. The... Bisa Butler's Quilts Feature Designs So Realistic ...

The Art Institute of Chicago has announced Bisa Butler: Portraits, on view from November 16-April 19, 2021. Showcasing 22 quilts in four galleries, the exhibition engages with themes of family, ...

The Van Goghs at the Art Institute might not be, strictly speaking, “immersive.” But the encyclopedic art museum on Michigan Avenue — which reopened Thursday, the same day the light and sound show ...

Bisa Butler hopes all who see her historic ESSENCE cover “feel the immediacy of it, the urgency of what we’ve gone through in this year.” Being tapped as the vessel through which to channel our ...

Washington Post senior critic-at-large Robin Givhan speaks with textile artist Bisa Butler about her work depicting historical and contemporary figures, her latest piece depicting an all-Black ...

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When Bisa Butler appears on a video chat from her home studio in West Orange, New Jersey, the screen resembles one of her artworks. She sits in front of bright fabric printed with green leaves and ...

Inspired by iconic black and white photos, Bisa Butler has created life-size portraits of African Americans in quilts that explode with color. The exhibit is on display at Chicago's Art Institute.