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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Historical Marker: August Wilson’s Legacy
Playwright, August Wilson’s childhood home is now a historical marker in the city. The house is located on Bedford Avenue and was built in the 1840s. The Pittsburg Post-Gazette released the news to the public earlier this week.
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1979 New York’s Art World: Romare Bearden
About Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel interviews Romare Bearden concerning his paintings and collages and the influences on his work. Source: http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/dsva/
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The Definition of ART
Art is a concept formed by society through experience, culture, and imagination. According to Richard Wollheim (2007) via the Grove Art Online describes art as, “… Art is all but a universal feature of human society, inhibited only by the extreme exigencies of life (Wollheim, 2007).” Source: Wollheim, R. (2007). “Art.” Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford…
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Brown Eyes: Understanding Art | Understanding Culture #1
This is my first post and I’m very excited to be starting it off with a very fascinating video via TED, featuring the Director of the Studio Museum Harlem, Thelma Golden. I visited the studio two years ago and I fell in love with it. As a student of art, I’ve studied Thelma Golden for…
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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