When Ira Aldridge took the London stage in 1825, he became the first black actor to portray Shakespeare's Othello. Pietro Calvi, “Othello” (modeled 1868; this version executed 1873), marble and bronze ...

This Shakespearean tragedy is not, as has been sometimes claimed by the irredeemably glib, "a play about a handkerchief". Yet the play's strawberry embroidered rag of devotion and doom is often seen ...

Personal to Political is a nationally touring exhibition featuring works by 17 African American artists who are reshaping the contemporary art world, from Kerry James Marshall, Lonnie Holley, and ...

London, England – A new adaptation of Othello in the UK subtly interrogates the tragic hero’s religious identity, presenting to audiences the possibility that the Moor of Venice was a closeted, ...

CAMBRIDGE — Because questions of race and gender sit squarely at the center of “Othello,’’ watching it in 2019 offers a reminder of Shakespeare’s eternal relevance, that perpetually astonishing way ...

Ahead of his inclusion in this year’s Whitney Biennial, the emerging sculptor reflects on the spiritual power of domestic spaces. “The stepladder is a positive object,” says the artist Woody De ...

California-based artist Woody Othello was back in Miami a month or so ago in preparation for his first museum exhibition in his hometown, at Perez Art Museum Miami, and he was trying to reflect on ...

On May 5, 2026, Public Art Fund will present Woody De Othello: Guardian Spirit, the artist’s first major public art exhibition in New York. The Smithsonian’s Modern and contemporary art museum in ...