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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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Years and years ago, a friend and I thought to write a movie. The film was the story of a Caribbean-born woman who leaves her island as a teen-ager; she’s employed as a kind of companion to the wife of a wealthy vacationing French family. The time: the nineteen-twenties. Once in Paris, the young…
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Ruby Dee, the award-winning actress whose seven-decade career included triumphs on stage and screen, has died. She was 91 and transitioned on Thursday, June 12, 2014. Famous Quotes by Ruby Dee: “The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.” “You just try to do everything that comes up. Get up an hour earlier,…
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Listen to tracks from the album (Quiet Pride: The Elizabeth Catlett Project) while reading this article. In the work of the late sculptress Elizabeth Catlett, bassist and composer Rufus Reid found emotional and physical revelations – and the inspiration to take on the mos ambitious project of his career It’s little wonder that Rufus…
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“On the Cover Brotha” which archives magazine covers featuring black men. The covers and the men are as diverse and varied as the magazines featuring them as subjects. Page covers are featured from defunct black men’s magazines EM/Ebony Man, Code, and UNTOLD. Those magazines really and truly “represented” and I’m excited to share those…
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Najee Dorsey converses with a variety of characters, confronting past narratives, personal demons, resistance, and independence. He applies various 2-D and 3-D formats to manipulate representations of historic figures, antiques, folktales, and vintage photos that create a narrative about a misrepresented people. It is quite evident that Najee Dorsey is both a self-taught artist…
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Long marginalized by their community and overlooked by the art market, African American abstractionists are finally coming into the spotlight “Donald Judd didn’t have to explain himself. Why do I have to?” asks Jennie C. Jones, an African American abstract painter who has grappled with the issue of how her work can or should…
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Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist Discover how Archibald Motley’s paintings have captured worldwide attention for their rainbow-hued, syncopated compositions, and discover their genesis in Chicago’s burgeoning black community during the interwar years. These frenetic, colorful canvases of middle-class sitting rooms, glittery cabarets, shadowy pool halls, neon-lit street scenes, and illicit “Black and Tan” clubs…
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Published on Jun 4, 2014 via SABC Digital News Earlier on the show we spoke to the US ambassador to South Africa, Patrick Gaspard about the Art in Embassies project that he is currently running with three American artists and two South African artist Mary Sibande and Nichola Hlobo. We are now joined by…
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New Works from Delita Martin: “I Come From Women Who Could Fly” is a series of large scale, mixed media works on paper. Inspired by oral story telling traditions, these images explore the space between realism and the fantastic. Throughout the works a variety of drawing mediums are used to interweave layers of texture, pattern, portraiture.…
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A Moment of Silence for the audacious Dr. Maya Angelou | (1928-2014).
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