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Spring 2024

Art In May; Haiku

Cracking spring in may
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whilst watching the art

by atlas brown

  • Exhibition: Blue Black Curated by Glenn Ligon

    From Pulitzer Arts Foundation: Influential American artist Glenn Ligon offers a lyrical meditation on the colors blue and black. Inspired by his experience of the Pulitzer’s monumental Ellsworth Kelly wall sculpture, Blue Black, Ligon enlists the colors to pose timely and nuanced questions, touching upon notions of language, identity, and perception. The exhibition brings together a…

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  • Google Celebrates: 44th Anniversary of the Birth of Hip Hop

    From Google.com Google took it one step further and debuted a historical Doodle compass about Hip Hop and its impact on American culture. The first-of-its-kind Doodle featuring a custom logo graphic by famed graffiti artist Cey Adams, interactive turntables on which users can mix samples from legendary tracks, and a serving of Hip Hop history –…

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  • Exhibition: HENRY TAYLOR A PORTRAIT SHOW

    From the Galerie Eva Presenhuber: Now on View through July 22, 2017 Galerie Eva Presenhuber is pleased to present a new body of work by Los Angeles-based artist Henry Taylor, in rendition of the classic portrait. This collection is a culmination of reimagined, real time, and futuristic introspection into the Black experience. These visceral renderings…

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  • Exhibition: Say It Loud: Art, History, Rebellion

    From The Charles R. Wright Museum of African American History: Say It Loud: Art, History, Rebellion is a two-part exhibition that commemorates the 1960s rebellions, observes the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Detroit Rebellion, and compares the uprisings of the past to the upheavals that shocked our nation in the 21st century. The first part of Say…

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  • Read: Chicago Library Collects Racially Sensitive Art

    From The Stony Island Arts Bank: The Stony Island Arts Bank is a hybrid gallery, media archive, library and community center – and a home for Rebuild’s archives and collections. Designed by William Gibbons Uffendell and built in 1923, the bank at 68th Street and Stony Island Avenue was once a vibrant community savings and…

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