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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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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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If you go to Kara Walker’s new exhibit, “A Subtlety,” at the Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn, a lot will overwhelm you. You’ll likely wait outside in a line that snakes down Kent Street, across from rowhouses that were once owned by Puerto Rican families and now fetch millions. You’ll sign a waiver absolving…
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Mickalene Thomas’ Tête de Femme at Lehmann Maupin, June 26 – August 8, 2014 Lehmann Maupin debuts Tête de Femme, a new body of work by artist Mickalene Thomas. In her fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, Thomas explores the intricacies of female beauty through painting and collage, focusing on how artifice serves both to…
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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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