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Spring 2024
Art In May; Haiku
Cracking spring in may
Help me with better input
whilst watching the art
by atlas brown
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Exhibition: OMAR VICTOR DIOP, ‘Project Diaspora’
From SCADFASH ‘Project Diaspora’ SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film presents the first solo museum exhibition by celebrated photographer Omar Victor Diop. “Project Diaspora” is a rich, meticulously crafted essay of 18 works of art that explore the often neglected, but deeply entangled historical relationships between Africa and the rest of the world, including…
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#freebooks: African-American Artists, 1929–1945: Prints, Drawings, and Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
From Met Publications About the Exhibition Read Book Online: African-American Artists, 1929–1945: Prints, Drawings, and Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art More than seventy works by African-American artists—drawn exclusively from the collection of the Metropolitan—include prints by Robert Blackburn, Elizabeth Catlett, William H. Johnson, Raymond Steth, and Dox Thrash, among others, as well as…
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Article: Modern Storytellers: Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Faith Ringgold
From The Met | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History Excerpt The work of these three African-American artists—Romare Bearden (1911–1988), Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000), and Faith Ringgold (born 1930)—speaks to the enduring power of the narrative impulse, and to its endless possibilities for reinvention. Whether the subject is historical, political, religious, fantastical, or in celebration of the rituals…
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Call For Proposals: The Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA)
From ARLIS/NA The Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) will hold its 46th annual conference, “Out of Bounds,” in New York City, February 25-March 1, 2018. The New York Conference Program Committee encourages fellow librarians, archivists, curators, museum professionals, educators, artists, designers, architects, and scholars to propose sessions that expand the boundaries of art…
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Watch EJI’s New Museum Trailer: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration
From EJI Construction is underway in Montgomery, Alabama, on the Equal Justice Initiative’s new racial justice museum, which will explore America’s legacy of slavery, racial terror, segregation, and mass incarceration. EJI’s planned museum attempts to address our country’s failure to create cultural spaces that have honestly addressed enslavement, lynching, and the consequences of centuries of…
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