Dear ART | library deco supporters:
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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This holiday season take some time out and enjoy our curated films provided for you to enjoy. All three films debuted in the 70’s era and focuses on the Black family. Go back in time and observe the artistic valor in each film regarding style and culture. Examine the various issues that each film acknowledges…
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Chapter 2021: Ingenuity WRITING IN SECOND PERSON Call me ARTINGENUITY. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—I thought I would develop into an archive of Blackness sitting on virtual stacks. It is a way I have survived, by regulating the circulation of life-long learning to the masses through creativity. “sweet as the moment went pop!”…
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FEATURED FREE BOOK She wrote under the pseudonym of bell hooks Book Cover Image: Public Domain
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Black History Month 2022 The theme for Black History Month 2022 is Black Health and Wellness. According to ASLAH the theme acknowledges the legacy of not only Black scholars and medical practitioners in Western medicine, but also other ways of knowing (e.g., birth-workers, doulas, midwives, naturopaths, herbalists, etc.) throughout the African Diaspora. The 2022 theme…
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Exhibition dates: ONGOINGExhibition location: The Met Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, First Floor, Gallery 508 Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room THE MET unveiled a long-term installation this past month, Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room, that transforms a 19th-century domestic interior into a space untethered by time. Like traditional period rooms, the installation…
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“I am passionate about everything in my life–first and foremost, passionate about ideas. And that’s a dangerous person to be in this society, not just because I’m a woman, but because it’s such a fundamentally anti-intellectual, anti-critical thinking society. ” — bell hooks
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Previously Published Bi-Weekly Synopsis of Curated Content by Editorial Team @ ART | library deco Reimagining Blackness and ArchitectureWhat is architecture? Ten architects featured in a new MoMA exhibition and online course, Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America, as well as a new online course, Reimagining Blackness and Architecture. Through original films, audio interviews, and short readings,…
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2021/2022 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series WATCH LIVE! Monday, January 24, 7 pm CT Honorée Fanonne Jeffers and Tiphanie Yanique will give brief readings from their new novels The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois and Monster in the Middle, followed by a conversation with Joy Sewing, Lifestyle and Culture Columnist at the Houston Chronicle. Visit: Inprint Houston
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