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 Portland Art Museum In 21st-century America, questions of race and identity are being explored as never before. This exploration has prompted many artists of color to investigate what constitutes identity, community, and the idea of a so-called post-racial society. Constructing Identity: Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African-American Art brings together paintings, sculpture, prints, and
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From Art | library deco Back in December 2016, the Obamas were documented in a cover story by Architectural Digest about their art collection housed in the White House during their tenure in the oval office. Their collection was loaned from different artistic institutions within the United States. Glenn Ligon is the youngest artist chosen
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From B.L.A.C. For the first time in more than 15 years, the Detroit Institute of Art’s contemporary department has a staff of three. Assistant curators Taylor Renee Aldridge and Lucy Mensah, along with curator Laurie Ann Farrell will lead the DIA’s plans to reinvent their contemporary art department. Aldridge, a Detroit native and co-founding editor
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From A.R.T. Please join us for a wonderful evening of discourse, where we will address the significant financial challenges and opportunities facing archivists today. The panelists will discuss the various ways in which they have been successful in securing funding for professional development, hiring, promotions, and advocating for salary increase for the professional staff at
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From Bomb Magazine The Oral History Project BOMB’s Oral History Project is a unique series of one-on-one interviews with New York-based African-American artists, curators, and cultural figures. It aims to shine a light on the lives and careers of distinguished practitioners across the arts, many of whom remain under-recognized. Since 2014, we have spoken with
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From Tate In the late 1990s curator and writer Thelma Golden coined the controversial term ‘post-black art’ with friend and artist Glenn Ligon to refer to a post-civil rights generation of African-American artists whose work she believed could no longer be defined in terms of ‘race’. In this lecture and discussion, Golden reflects on the
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From Poets.org Celebrate the 100th birthday of Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) with poets Angela Jackson and Quraysh Ali Lansana, who will read Brooks’ work and engage in a conversation on her legacy. A Shelley Memorial Award winner, Jackson is the author of numerous plays, novels and poetry collections, including the National Book Award-nominated And All These Roads Be Luminous: Poems Selected and
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From The New York Times: Looking at an Artist’s Portraits of the Charleston Shooting Victims For years, Rudy Shepherd has made watercolor paintings to humanize people in the news. By DANIEL McDERMONJAN. 11, 2017 Read complete article and view images here.
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From NMAAHC The National Museum of African American History and Culture takes center stage on ABC Television on Thursday. The network will air “Taking the Stage: African American Music and Stories that Changed America” on ABC stations nationwide at 9 pm ET/8 pm CT. Filmed live at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing
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From The Museum at FIT Fashion & Textile History Gallery December 6 – May 16, 2017 Share using #BlackFashionDesigners on Twitter and Instagram. There have been past exhibitions about individual black fashion designers, such as Stephen Burrows and Patrick Kelly, but this exhibition explores the experiences of several generations of fashion designers of African descent
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