NATIONAL POETRY MONTH 2024
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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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Exhibition: SOUL OF A NATION: ART IN THE AGE OF BLACK POWER
From TATE Modern: Soul of a Nation shines a bright light on the vital contribution of Black artists to a dramatic period in American art and history The show opens in 1963 at the height of the Civil Rights movement and its dreams of integration. In its wake emerged more militant calls for Black Power:…
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Art & Sound : Oral History, Adger Cowans by Carrie Mae Weems
From BOMB — Artists in Conversation: BOMB’s Oral History Project documents the life stories of New York City’s African American artists. Interview Excerpt: Adger Cowans is a renowned fine arts photographer and painter whose works have been shown by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, International Museum of Photography, Museum of Modern Art, The Studio Museum…
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EXHIBITION | MY COLLECTION: A BENEFIT AUCTION & EXHIBITION
From MOCADA: MY COLLECTION: A Benefit Auction & Exhibition May 12, 2017 – June 4, 2017 Opening Reception: Friday, November 18, 2016 | 6-9PM Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts On view from Friday, May 12th to June 4th, this exhibition will highlight both emerging and established artist of the African Diaspora, many of which…
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#freebooks: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 27, no. 5 (January, 1969)
Read & Download | The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 27, no. 5 (January, 1969) Artists: Bearden, Romare, Wilson Burch, Frank Conroy, Sam Gilliam, Jr., Richard Hunt, Jean Blackwell Hutson, Jacob Lawrence, Tom Lloyd, Barry N. Schwartz, Jane Schwarz, Priscilla Tucker, William Williams, and Hale Woodruff (1969). Table of Content: “The Black Artist in America:…
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Exhibition: ROBERT HODGE, Rhythm for the Suffering
From Freight+Volume: Robert Hodge: Rhythm for the Suffering Now – July 2nd, 2017 | View Preview Freight+Volume is very excited to announce Robert Hodge’s first major solo exhibition in NYC, Rhythm for the Suffering. Following a two-month residency at San Antonio’s Artpace, as well as a winter project at Arts+Leisure, the artist presents a new body of allusive…
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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