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Archived Talks: National Gallery of Art Presents: The Collecting of African American Art Series
The Collecting of African American Art series focuses on distinguished private collections of African American art in the United States. The Collecting of African American Art I: Introduction Access Entire Series Alvia J. Wardlaw, associate professor, Texas Southern University and curator of modern and contemporary art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. For the inaugural lecture…
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Read: A Feminist Study of African American Art in New Orleans: Considerations of Aesthetics, Art History and Art Criticism, By Harriet Walker
A Feminist Study of African American Art in New Orleans: Considerations of Aesthetics, Art History and Art Criticism By Harriet Walker Excerpt: Feminist art scholars have exposed the political nature of art world process and the ways gender influences what is meant by art, who are considered artists, what is studied as the history of art, the…
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Exhibit: Solidary and Solitary: The Pamela J. Joyner and Alfred J. Giuffrida Collection – Touring the US
From Ogden Museum of Southern Art: Solidary & Solitary, drawn from the Joyner/Giuffrida collection, tells the history of art by African-American artists from the 1940s to the present moment. That story is a complicated one, woven from the threads of debates about how to represent blackness; social struggle and change; and migrations and diasporas, particularly…
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Archived Conference: The 2017 African American Art Song Alliance Conference
From African American Art Song Alliance: LiveStream from the African American Art Song Alliance Conference Watch events from the African American Art Song Alliance 20th Anniversary Conference in Irvine, California live–courtesy of the Hampsong Foundation! The African American Art Song Alliance was founded by Darryl Taylor in 1997. Nationally and internationally acclaimed artists and scholars…
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Exhibit: Prospect.4, the Fourth Iteration of a Citywide Exhibition
From Prospect 4: Prospect.4, the fourth iteration of a citywide exhibition that opens November 16-19, 2017, finds inspiration in the lotus plant. This aquatic perennial takes root in the fetid but nutrient-rich mud of swamps so that its beautiful flower may rise above the murky water. The flower’s grace is inextricably connected to the noisome…
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