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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Black Artists in British Art: A History Since the 1950s
Now Available | By Eddie Chambers Eddie Chambers is an Associate Professor, History of Art, at the University of Texas at Austin, teaching visual arts of the African Diaspora. Book Excerpt: Britain’s Black artists, from the 1950s onwards, including recent developments and successes. Black Artists in British Art represents a timely and important contribution to…
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A Look Inside J. Dilla’s Vinyl Collection | This One is for Dilla — Hip Hop
A Look Inside J. Dilla’s Vinyl Collection A talent like J. Dilla‘s cannot be confined to life or death. Rather, it is a force of innovative vision, perpetually revealing itself in parts over time. The (lost) art of sampling is a producer’s ‘trick of the trade’ and no one has left audiences guessing quite like…
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The Overwhelming Whiteness of Black Art
If you go to Kara Walker’s new exhibit, “A Subtlety,” at the Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn, a lot will overwhelm you. You’ll likely wait outside in a line that snakes down Kent Street, across from rowhouses that were once owned by Puerto Rican families and now fetch millions. You’ll sign a waiver absolving…
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Mickalene Thomas’ Tête de Femme at Lehmann Maupin
Mickalene Thomas’ Tête de Femme at Lehmann Maupin, June 26 – August 8, 2014 Lehmann Maupin debuts Tête de Femme, a new body of work by artist Mickalene Thomas. In her fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, Thomas explores the intricacies of female beauty through painting and collage, focusing on how artifice serves both to…
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CAN WE KNOW HER? | Article By HILTON ALS
Years and years ago, a friend and I thought to write a movie. The film was the story of a Caribbean-born woman who leaves her island as a teen-ager; she’s employed as a kind of companion to the wife of a wealthy vacationing French family. The time: the nineteen-twenties. Once in Paris, the young…
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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