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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Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art
July 24, 2014 – January 4, 2015 Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art WALKER ART CENTER 1750 Hennepin Avenue Minneapolis, MN From walkerart.org: This groundbreaking exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of performance art by black artists working from the perspective of the visual arts from the 1960s to the present. While black…
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Art Show | Perspectives of the African American Experience
Perspectives of the African American Experience August 1 – September 8, 2014 Featuring Derrick Adams, Nathaniel Donnett, Bradley McCallum & Jacqueline Tarry Discussion with artists Bradley McCallum & Jacqueline Tarry: August 7, 2014, 6 – 8 pm QUINTENZ GALLERY Residences at The Little Nell Building | 501 East Dean Street | Aspen, CO From quintenzgallery.com: This summer Quintenz…
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Art Everywhere | Free Public Exhibition (Select Cities)
Art Everywhere is a public exhibition celebrating great American art. American artists have long found inspiration in iconic locations such as Times Square, Sunset Boulevard and Route 66. Starting on August 4, 2014 and continuing for four weeks, these places and more will be transformed into free open-air galleries for masterworks of American art through…
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Paris Review | The Art of Fiction No.78
James Baldwin on the benefits of expatriatism, essays v. fiction, and a revelation found in a New York puddle. This interview was conducted in the two places dearest to James Baldwin’s struggle as a writer. We met first in Paris, where he spent the first nine years of a burgeoning career and wrote his…
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UCLA Department of Art Lectures | Betye Saar
Watch | FADE: THE ART OF AGING Los Angeles artist Betye Saar is one of the great assemblagists of our time. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Saar’s…
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