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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 | Alice Neel, Uptown

    From the David Zwirner Gallery Alice Neel, Uptown explores Neel’s interest in the extraordinary diversity of twentieth century New York City and the people amongst whom she lived. The selected portraits include cultural and political figures admired by Neel, among them playwright, actor, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr., whose 1945…

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  • Exhibition: Jordan Casteel: Harlem Notes

    From Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Art + Culture ABOUT THIS EXHIBITION Jordan Casteel: Harlem Notes is an exhibition of recent paintings by Harlem-based artist, Jordan Casteel. These detailed portraits explore intimacy and the immortalization of her subjects. Each painting hints at a treasure trove of stories and memories shared between Casteel and her…

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  • Exhibition | The Nasher Museum presents Nina Chanel Abney: Royal Flush

    From Nasher.Duke The Nasher Museum presents Nina Chanel Abney: Royal Flush, the first solo exhibition in a museum for the Chicago-born artist. The exhibition is a 10-year survey of approximately 30 of the artist’s paintings, watercolors and collages. Abney will also create a large, temporary wall drawing specifically for the museum. Abney, born in 1982,…

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  • Online Exhibition | Silent Intensity: African Americans in Southeast Missouri Farms

    From The Arts At Page Library  The Arts At Page Library presents their online African American history, photography exhibition entitled, The Silent Intensity: African Americans in Southeast Missouri Farms. The online exhibition features an array of documentary photographs that tell a story about the conditions during the Great Depression, in which African Americans lived and…

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  • #freebooks | The Red Record By Ida B. Wells

    From The Arts At Page Library Download a free ebook this month entitled, The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells. Annotation (Digital History.uh.edu): After the Civil War, many black men were lynched in the South. In 1892, Ida B. Wells, a black journalist in Memphis…

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