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by atlas brown

  • Exhibition: Black Power!

    From The New York Public Library Open now. Ends December 30th, 2017. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture The concept of Black Power was introduced by Stokely Carmichael and fellow Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker Willie Ricks in June 1966. Like no other ideology before, the multiform and ideologically diverse movement shaped black…

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  • Kara Walker’s Next Act

    From nymag.com In New York Magazine’s Art and Design issue, Doreen St. Félix profiles Kara Walker, who, following her 2014 sphinx sculpture, A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby, is planning her next act — how to solve the problem of politics in art. “I am still wrestling with my relationship to what my art…

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  • A Moment of Silence for Barkley L. Hendricks

    Barkley L. Hendricks (1945-2017) Timeline Born in Philadelphia, PA M.F.A., Yale University, New Haven, CT B.F.A., Yale University, New Haven, CT Certificate, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia From art.state.gov Barkley L. Hendricks (born 1945, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a contemporary African American painter who made pioneering contributions to black portraiture and conceptualism. While he worked…

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  • Cartoonist Turns Black Hair into Pop Art

    From Essence.com Excerpt For 23-year-old Shannon Wright, the idea to start a Black hair illustration series came from an anthology group she was apart of. After being asked to design an illustration about what it meant to be a knight, Wright came to the stark realization that there weren’t many Black representations, especially Black women…

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  • Exhibition: We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85

    From Brooklyn Museum Focusing on the work of black women artists, We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 examines the political, social, cultural, and aesthetic priorities of women of color during the emergence of second-wave feminism. It is the first exhibition to highlight the voices and experiences of women of color—distinct from the primarily…

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