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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
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The Art of Tennis, Dominated By A Black Girl | Serena Williams
From Wikipedia: Serena Jameka Williams is the 2015 Wimbledon Champion. Artistically: Since 2004, Serene Wiliams has also been running her own line of designer apparel called “Aneres”—her first name spelled backward. In 2009 she launched a signature collection of handbags and jewelry. The collection, called Signature Statement, is sold mainly on the Home Shopping Network (HSN). In…
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By TA-NEHISI COATES: ‘Letter to My Son’ – “Here is what I would like for you to know: In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body—it is heritage.”
From The Atlantic.com: An Excerpt from TA-NEHISI COATES forthcoming book, Between The World and Me “…And what did that mean for the Dreamers I’d seen as a child? Could I ever want to get into the world they made? No. I was born among a people, Samori, and in that realization I knew that I…
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The Clotilda: The last known United States slave ship to bring enslaved Africans to the U. S
From Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History: July 8, 1860 The Clotilda, the last known United States slave ship to bring enslaved Africans to the U. S., entered the Mississippi Sound and anchored off Point-of-Pines in Grand Bay, Alabama with 110 African captives. The United States had banned the importation of enslaved people January…
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Full text of “African-American artists of Los Angeles oral history transcript, 1990 : Noah Purifoy”
Take a look at the full transcript of Noah Purifoy’s interview for UCLA’s oral history project highlighting African-American artists available on the Internet Archive. On View | Noah Purifoy: Junk Dada, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art through September 27.
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Dread Scott: Radical Conscience
From Black Artist News Dread Scott: Radical Conscience Text | A.M. Weaver Excerpt: Dread Scott’s edict is make “revolutionary” art — to propel history forward.” Since the early 1990s, after graduating from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and completing the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program, Scott has joined the…
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