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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Google Celebrates: 44th Anniversary of the Birth of Hip Hop
From Google.com Google took it one step further and debuted a historical Doodle compass about Hip Hop and its impact on American culture. The first-of-its-kind Doodle featuring a custom logo graphic by famed graffiti artist Cey Adams, interactive turntables on which users can mix samples from legendary tracks, and a serving of Hip Hop history –…
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Exhibition: HENRY TAYLOR A PORTRAIT SHOW
From the Galerie Eva Presenhuber: Now on View through July 22, 2017 Galerie Eva Presenhuber is pleased to present a new body of work by Los Angeles-based artist Henry Taylor, in rendition of the classic portrait. This collection is a culmination of reimagined, real time, and futuristic introspection into the Black experience. These visceral renderings…
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Exhibition: Say It Loud: Art, History, Rebellion
From The Charles R. Wright Museum of African American History: Say It Loud: Art, History, Rebellion is a two-part exhibition that commemorates the 1960s rebellions, observes the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Detroit Rebellion, and compares the uprisings of the past to the upheavals that shocked our nation in the 21st century. The first part of Say…
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Read: Chicago Library Collects Racially Sensitive Art
From The Stony Island Arts Bank: The Stony Island Arts Bank is a hybrid gallery, media archive, library and community center – and a home for Rebuild’s archives and collections. Designed by William Gibbons Uffendell and built in 1923, the bank at 68th Street and Stony Island Avenue was once a vibrant community savings and…
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Read: July Edition of Transition Magazine and Explore Open Access Articles
From Transition Magazine: Born in Africa and bred in the diaspora, Transition is a unique forum for the freshest, most compelling ideas from and about the black world. Since its founding in Uganda in 1961, the magazine has kept apace of the rapid transformation of the African Diaspora and has remained a leading forum of intellectual debate.…
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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