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Thank you for always taking the time to read and interact with the only African American virtual art library, gallery, and repository that delves into the Black experience in art, literature, and culture. This year once again had its highs and lows in all things centered around African American culture! To end this year, we have curated a listing of content for you to review at your leisure during the holiday season. For now, sit back, rewind in time and catch up on content, news, and information missed throughout the year. Our library curatorial team is looking forward to bringing you relevant content in 2023 that matters and will expand your horizons in African American art.
ART | library deco will go on break from December 1 – January 15, 2023.
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Art Everywhere is a public exhibition celebrating great American art. American artists have long found inspiration in iconic locations such as Times Square, Sunset Boulevard and Route 66. Starting on August 4, 2014 and continuing for four weeks, these places and more will be transformed into free open-air galleries for masterworks of American art through
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James Baldwin on the benefits of expatriatism, essays v. fiction, and a revelation found in a New York puddle. This interview was conducted in the two places dearest to James Baldwin’s struggle as a writer. We met first in Paris, where he spent the first nine years of a burgeoning career and wrote his
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Watch | FADE: THE ART OF AGING Los Angeles artist Betye Saar is one of the great assemblagists of our time. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Saar’s
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To the Editor: (NY Times) | There are times when the white critic must sit down and listen. If he cannot listen and learn, then he must not concern himself with black creativity. A children’s story I wrote speaks of a black male child that dreamed of a strong white golden haired prince who
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The first thing you notice when you see artist Shantell Martin are the black lines and words scribbled on her daily uniform—white shirt, white shorts, and hand-painted white Converse. The artist draws on anything she comes across, usually taking a black marker and turning cars, shoes, bottles, toy airplanes, people, clothes, and even herself into
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Excerpt from video: The first black woman to earn a masters degree in library science from the University of Mississippi, Anita Walton Moore went on to become the head librarian at Rust College, the oldest Historically Black College in Mississippi. There, she has worked to preserve books and documents from 1964’s Freedom Summer. “Freedom Summer”
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From Art in America: This month’s cover was designed by Turner Prize-winning Chris Ofili. The British-born, Trinidad-based artist has exhibited at institutions such as the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2005); Tate Britain, London (2005 and 2010); and the kestnergesellschaft, Hanover (2006). Ofili represented Great Britain in the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003. A
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Nicola Vassell Age: Unknown Location: New York Notable project: “Black Eye” Formerly a director at Deitch Projects and Pace Gallery, Nicola Vassell’s recent Tribeca show, “Black Eye,” featured 26 of the best black young and established artists working today. The list of artists included Kehinde Wiley, James Marshall, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Wangechi Mutu, and the
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Now Available | By Eddie Chambers Eddie Chambers is an Associate Professor, History of Art, at the University of Texas at Austin, teaching visual arts of the African Diaspora. Book Excerpt: Britain’s Black artists, from the 1950s onwards, including recent developments and successes. Black Artists in British Art represents a timely and important contribution to
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A Look Inside J. Dilla’s Vinyl Collection A talent like J. Dilla‘s cannot be confined to life or death. Rather, it is a force of innovative vision, perpetually revealing itself in parts over time. The (lost) art of sampling is a producer’s ‘trick of the trade’ and no one has left audiences guessing quite like
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