NATIONAL POETRY MONTH 2024
Take a moment to rewind and catch up on the latest updates in the art library – now archived.
Get a free Official National Poetry Month Poster. Featuring artwork by Jack Wong, and lines from “blessing the boats” by Lucille Clifton.
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Enter the Cover Art Archive: 800,000 Album Covers from the 1950s through 2018
From Open Culture: The Cover Art Archive, a joint project of the Internet Archive and MusicBrainz, an “open music encyclopedia that collects music metadata and makes it available to the public. The collection now numbers in the several hundred thousands—upwards of 800,000, according to its results counter—but some of the uploads are not yet complete…
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Women’s (Black) History Month: The Wisdom of Lois Mailou Jones, 2018
The wonderful thing about being an artist is that there is no end to creative expression. Painting is my life; my life is painting. — From “The Life and Art of Lois Mailou Jones”
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Remembering: Peggy Cooper Cafritz, Arts Advocate for Change Transitions at 70
Art does not succeed in time by being more personal, different, or even original than any other. It succeeds by remaining intact, and…containing within its form ideas and associations, which can continue to stimulate people who view it. — Artist’s statement (1967), Richard Hunt Peggy Cooper Cafritz was born on April 7, 1947, in Mobile,…
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Exhibition | Trenton Doyle Hancock: The Re-Evolving Door to the Moundverse
From the Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis: The Re-Evolving Door to the Moundverse invites viewers to encounter the visual narratives of Trenton Doyle Hancock. Through painting, sculpture, and video, Hancock has created a mythological world, one in which an ongoing epic battle rages between good and evil. Raised in a religious home in Paris,…
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Exhibition | Something to Say: The McNay Presents 100 Years of African American Art
From the McNay Art Museum: What the Kelley Collection demonstrates is how African American collectors have emerged over the last 40 years and become important forces in the art world and have an impact on the critical, curatorial, and market positions of African American artists.—Lowery Stokes Sims, former director of the Studio Museum in Harlem…
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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