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ART Talk | EXPLORING THE DIRTY SOUTH
Register For Free Afternoon Discussion ARTnews Event Details: June 23, 2021, 4 PM CST / 5 PM CST Event Info: Valerie Cassel Oliver, the Sydney and Francis Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, in Richmond, discusses her latest trailblazing exhibition, “The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material…
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ART Quote| Sonya Sanchez Demands Your Attention: Deal With Art Black
“The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the ‘Negro’s’ reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images.” — Sonia Sanchez Image Credit: Sonia Sanchez Reading at Northern Virginia Community College 2013, 20 March 2013, 17:45:57, Photographer: Slowking4
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ART Film | “Passage” by Saint Heron for the International Woolmark Prize 2021
The International Woolmark Prize and Saint Heron Agency present ‘Passage’ – a motion portraiture and celebration of the six 2021 International Woolmark Prize finalists. Created and written by Solange Knowles for Saint Heron Agency, and directed by McArthur Award-winning director Wu Tsang, the work draws from the masterful styling of Ib Kamara and an original…
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ART exposition | Inside the Digital Repository: Jean-Michel Basquiat
Description: “CONTRACT OF FICTION BETWEEN JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT AND HELMUT AL DIEZ” The duo of SAMO©, which consisted of Jean-Michel Basquiat and his friend Helmut Al Diaz, wrote enigmatic epigrams and short phrases on the walls of Manhattan. Note: Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American artist who was part of the Neo-Expressionist movement in the 1980s. He…
Cover Image Courtesy, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. (1893). Phillis Wheatley Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-7329-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
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