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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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LECTURE: “In the Arms of the Negress”
Date: Thursday, March 6, 2014, 7:00 – 8:00PM Location: EVANSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY | Community Meeting Room | 1703 Orrington Avenue | Evanston, IL How have black women been represented visually? How have they represented themselves? And how have those images shaped our understanding of what, in fact, constitutes representation? To answer these questions, art historian Huey Copeland examines…
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BET HONORS: CARRIE MAE WEEMS ACCEPTS THE VISUAL ARTS AWARD
— Clip : In an eloquently delivered acceptance speech, Visual Arts Award honoree Carrie Mae Weems acknowledges those that have widened the path to make her work possible, including the other honorees. Watch! Season 2014 (02/24/2014). “I just want to be remembered as being fair, being honest, being able to tell the truth. That would…
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Bert | Film Screening at Deborah Colton Gallery
Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 Time: 6:30 pm reception | 7:00 pm Screening and Q&A with John Guess, Jr. Bert is an hour-long documentary film that follows the life and art of the esteemed RomePrize winner, Bert L. Long, Jr, as seen through the eyes of collectors, colleagues, gallerists, and friends. Narrated by artist John…
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They Seek a City: Chicago and the Art of Migration, 1910–1950
During the first half of the 20th century, the city of Chicago was shaped and reshaped by waves of migration and immigration as African Americans poured in from the South and newcomers arrived from Europe and Mexico. They Seek a City, a 2013 exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, focused on the art produced…
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— Art is the one place we all turn to for solace. We turn to it constantly, whether you are listening to music, or pop in a film; you want to escape reality, and if you thinking deeply, you want to engage in art in a complex way. Art allows us to navigate the more…
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