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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From Snite Museum of Art: O’Shaughnessy Galleries Through December 15, 2018 Drawing on the Joyner/Giuffrida Collection, this exhibition celebrates Modern and contemporary artists of African descent, many of whom were historically overlooked by collectors, critics, scholars, galleries, and museums. A central theme is the power of abstract art as a profound political choice and as…
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Media Release: The Library of Congress wishes to bring to your attention a new agile case display “Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing, September 15, 1963.” This exhibit memorializes that traumatic event that took place fifty-five years ago, when four young girls were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan while attending Sunday school. The victims…
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From the University of Michigan Museum of Art: Bringing together paintings, photographs, sculpture and installations created in Africa, Europe and the United States from the 19th to the 21st centuries, Beyond Borders: Global Africa features approximately 40 works of art drawn from UMMA’s African art collection and from private and public holdings around the world,…
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From Save the date and join the African American Digital Humanities Initiative (AADHum) at the University of Maryland for the first national conference, “Intentionally Digital, Intentionally Black,” October 18-20, 2018. Location: University of Maryland, College Park What happens to digital humanities inquiry when we begin with Black culture, Black thought, and Black persons at the…
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From Fondazione Prada: Fondazione Prada presents “The Black Image Corporation”, an exhibition conceived by Theaster Gates, from 20 September 2018 to 14 January 2019 at the Osservatorio venue in Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Milan. The project explores the fundamental legacy of Johnson Publishing Company archives, which feature more than 4 million images and have contributed to…
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From ART | library deco: Langston Hughes Harlem in Vogue: The Poetry and Jazz of Langston Hughes These poems are dark and bitter, “some of the harshest political verse ever penned by an American,” writes Hughes scholar Arnold Rampersad. Langston Hughes – narrator Charles Mingus – bass Jimmy Knepper – trombone Shafi Hadi – tenor…
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From Studio Museum Harlem: Studio Salon: Open Archive Wednesday, September 19, 1–5:30 pm Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Blvd Join the Studio Museum Harlem and the Schomburg Center for an archivist-led tour of the collections followed by a Wikipedia edit-a-thon with the Black Lunch Table inspired by archival materials highlighted…
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From The George Washington Carver Museum, Cultural & Genealogy Center: Exhibition On View Through October 4, 2018 Produced by the Smithsonian Institute in 1975, Black Women: Achievements Against the Odds features the groundbreaking accomplishments of women who resisted oppression to ensure a more justice and equitable society for all. From civil rights icons to literary scholars,…
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Art Institute Block Party Saturday, July 21, 2018, 10:30 a.m.–10:30 p.m. In and around the entire museum Free for members, $10 general admission for Illinois residents with advance registration by midnight on Friday, July 20 Buy Tickets Celebrate the deep and lasting impact of Chicago art and design on American culture with a day of…
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