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 the Whitney Museum of American Art: To celebrate the publication of Today I Shall Judge Nothing That Occurs, a book of Lyle Ashton Harris’s Ektachrome archive, Harris is joined by an intergenerational group of artists and writers for a night of conversation and reflection. Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, Harris photographed the radical cultural…
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From African Voices: “A Soulful Collection of Art and Literature” Our digital Summer 2017 issue celebrates the power of graphic novelists to create heroines and heroes that honor our legacy and future! Special thanks to artists Afua Richardson and N. Steven Harris for allowing African Voices to share their work on our front covers — this is the first double issue in the…
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From DocNow: The second Documenting the Now symposium, to be held in conjunction with our advisory board meeting, will address issues at the intersection of archival practice and the existence of Black people on the web and social media. Invited speakers will discuss their work on the Black experience in online spaces including research on…
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From Cultural Front: During the month of December, Dr. Kenton Rambsy will offer a three-part class on writer and social critic James Baldwin at the Dallas Institute for Humanities. The course, “A Different Perspective: Reading James Baldwin in the Digital Age,” will draw on various online data sources to situate Baldwin’s life and works within…
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From the LACMA Public Domain: Curator’s Notes Dancing People: Candombe (Personas bailando: [Candome]) Artist: Pedro Figari (Uruguay, 1861-1938) Uruguay, circa 1920 Paintings Oil on board Frame: 29 1/2 × 35 1/2 × 3 1/2 in. (74.93 × 90.17 × 8.89 cm) Gift of Gregory Peck (M.91.162) Latin American Art This work depicts a candombe — a…
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From Stop Telling Women To Smile, Stop Telling Women to Smile is an art series by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh. The work attempts to address gender based street harassment by placing drawn portraits of women, composed with captions that speak directly to offenders, outside in public spaces. Tatyana Falalizadeh is an illustrator/painter based in Brooklyn, mostly known for…
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ART_library deco: Spike Lee released his latest body of work, a reboot of his 1986 film, ‘She’s Gotta Have It’ on Thanksgiving Day. There are numerous articles and reviews on the net about Nola Darling and her journey as a Black woman, her right to be free, and make her own decisions on her own terms…
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From ART_library deco, Below are a few museums that we researched that offer free museum memberships in the United States. Take a look at each one and sign up today. Each membership is good for a year. Yale University Art Gallery As a free member, you will enjoy: Invitations to exhibitions and other programs at the Gallery Subscription to the Gallery’s tri-annual magazine…
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Building Bridges in a Divisive Climate: Diversity in Libraries, Archives, and Museums Free Registration Here: rebrand.ly/buildingbridgesconference * This event is organized by the University of Rhode Island (URI) Libraries and co-sponsored by the URI Office of Community, Equity and Diversity and the URI Multicultural Center. * This program is free and open to the public. …
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