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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Youth Art + Craft Sale @ East 38th Street Library
Led by local artist Tony Radford, kids and teens ages 8-16 have been creating 2D and 3D art from recycled materials at East 38th Street Library. The kids have been working real hard for the past couple of months on their pieces, so come support local youth…
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ROCK YOUR ART BLOG!
Is Your Art Blog on its Last Leg? Get Help! FUN FACT: Studies show that 75% of art blogs are incredibly boring. Ask yourself: – Who are you talking to on your blog? Who’s reading it? – What’s your blog really doing for…
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ARTIST | SPOTLIGHT: JAY WEST
Jay West is a contemporary Artist from Harlem, NY, who is quickly gaining recognition as one of the most promising young artists in New York. This brilliant young Artist’s work is about “mixing opposites” and making “worlds collide”. Drawing from a wide spectrum of inspirations, West’s paintings deal with subjects as diverse as popular cartoon…
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Southern discomfort: Kara Walker Continues to Shock and Awe
At first glance you cannot quite believe what you are seeing. Life-sized silhouettes made of black paper have been pasted directly on to the gallery walls. The cut-outs, you realize with a kind of mounting horror, comprise a deeply racist depiction of plantation life in America’s antebellum South. In one corner are outlines of…
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Online ART Visual | The Artwork of Elizabeth Catlett
— Art History Documentation: The Art of Elizabeth Catlett | Sculptures and Prints Download: http://elizabethcatlett.net/CATLETT_ANSG.pdf — Document Source: The Art of Elizabeth Catlett | Sculptures and Prints ANN NORTON SCULPTURE GARDENS M a d e p o s s i b l e b y s u p p o r t f r o m t h…
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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