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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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From American Masters (PBS): Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise About the Film Premiere date: February 21, 2017 First feature documentary on the author/activist includes exclusive interviews with Dr. Angelou, Oprah Winfrey, Common, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and others Distinctly referred to as “a redwood tree, with deep roots in American culture,” Dr. Maya Angelou…
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From Essence.com Article By LATOYA CROSS, FEBRUARY 21, 2017 On the first day of a class trip to Spain, interdisciplinary visual artist Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle and a friend got lost in the red-light district of Madrid. “I was constantly assumed to be a prostitute because I looked the way that I looked,” Hinkle recalls. The experience…
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From Aurora Picture Show: Cry of the Third Eye and Children of the Lost are two acts of an eventual three-act performed opera film by artist Lisa Harris that considers gentrification, displaced youth, and metaphysical reality in the historic Third Ward District of Houston. Harris–the writer, director, composer, and performer–musically narrates and orchestrates the semi-silent films…
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From the David Zwirner Gallery Alice Neel, Uptown explores Neel’s interest in the extraordinary diversity of twentieth century New York City and the people amongst whom she lived. The selected portraits include cultural and political figures admired by Neel, among them playwright, actor, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr., whose 1945…
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From Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Art + Culture ABOUT THIS EXHIBITION Jordan Casteel: Harlem Notes is an exhibition of recent paintings by Harlem-based artist, Jordan Casteel. These detailed portraits explore intimacy and the immortalization of her subjects. Each painting hints at a treasure trove of stories and memories shared between Casteel and her…
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From The Arts At Page Library The Arts At Page Library presents their online African American history, photography exhibition entitled, The Silent Intensity: African Americans in Southeast Missouri Farms. The online exhibition features an array of documentary photographs that tell a story about the conditions during the Great Depression, in which African Americans lived and…
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From The Arts At Page Library Download a free ebook this month entitled, The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells. Annotation (Digital History.uh.edu): After the Civil War, many black men were lynched in the South. In 1892, Ida B. Wells, a black journalist in Memphis…
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