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 in the Abstract, Part 2: Hard Edges/Soft Curves”
“Black in the Abstract, Part 2” is a companion to Black in the Abstract, Part 1: Epistrophy, which explored the fragmentation of the figurative as well as the loose and expansive nature of abstraction, this section chronicles the history of black artists whose work relies on the drama of restraint. Drawing upon the historical framework…
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New York Live Arts Announces LIVE IDEAS Festival 2014 Schedule – ‘The Year of James Baldwin’
New York Live Arts today announced the schedule of its second annual Live Ideas festival, James Baldwin, This Time! taking place April 23 – 27, 2014. Inaugurating “The Year of James Baldwin,” a city-wide celebration in 2014 – 15 of the continuing artistic, intellectual and moral presence of James Baldwin, on the occasion of what…
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Master of Abstract Expressionism | Edward Clark
Big Bang January 14 – February 22, 2014 TILTON GALLERY 8 East 76th Street New York, NY Tilton Gallery is pleased to present Big Bang, a retrospective exhibition of paintings by Edward Clark. This is the first gallery exhibition of the artist’s work in New York since 2006 and the title says it all: Clark’s…
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“The Griots of Oakland” | Exhibition and Book
AAMA and Story For All recruited five young men from the ages of 14 to 18 to serve as the conduit for the voices of black males throughout the city. All natives of Oakland, the boys were taught African American and Oakland history, as well as videography, by the non-profit. Through mock interviews that were…
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ART VIEW| The Guardians
Artist Kesha Bruce has created 200 works based on The Guardians: a group of solemn, mysterious figures who act as watchers, keepers, and protectors. Learn More About The Artist
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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