‘Somebody Stole My Broken Heart,’ a 2004 acrylic and pen and ink on wove paper by Faith Ringgold, depicting a panel from her Jazz Stories series of story quilts, achieved $30,000 plus the buyer’s premium in April 2021. Ringgold will receive a gold medal for painting at the awards and induction ceremony to be held by the American Academy of Arts and Letters on May 24 in Manhattan. Image courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries
NEW YORK (AP) – Author and visual artist Faith Ringgold, poetry critic Helen Hennessy Vendler and photographer Susan Unterberg will be honored this spring at the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ annual awards and induction ceremony. The academy, an honorary society based in Upper Manhattan, announced the awards March 16.
