An iconic painting by renowned Durham artist Ernie Barnes is on display at the Mint Museum Uptown. The artwork depicts a lively night at a Black dance hall in the segregated South of the early 1950s.
Spanish artist César Galicia (b. 1957) is celebrated for his illuminating renderings of what are seemingly ordinary objects – toys, public telephones, air pumps, motorcycles.
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.
The renowned work of a Durham, North Carolina artist has returned to the Tar Heel State. Ernie Barnes' "The Sugar Shack" painting is now on view at the Mint Museum Uptown in Charlotte, the first ...