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A Look Inside J. Dilla’s Vinyl Collection | This One is for Dilla — Hip Hop
A Look Inside J. Dilla’s Vinyl Collection A talent like J. Dilla‘s cannot be confined to life or death. Rather, it is a force of innovative vision, perpetually revealing itself in parts over time. The (lost) art of sampling is a producer’s ‘trick of the trade’ and no one has left audiences guessing quite like…
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The Overwhelming Whiteness of Black Art
If you go to Kara Walker’s new exhibit, “A Subtlety,” at the Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn, a lot will overwhelm you. You’ll likely wait outside in a line that snakes down Kent Street, across from rowhouses that were once owned by Puerto Rican families and now fetch millions. You’ll sign a waiver absolving…
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Mickalene Thomas’ Tête de Femme at Lehmann Maupin
Mickalene Thomas’ Tête de Femme at Lehmann Maupin, June 26 – August 8, 2014 Lehmann Maupin debuts Tête de Femme, a new body of work by artist Mickalene Thomas. In her fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, Thomas explores the intricacies of female beauty through painting and collage, focusing on how artifice serves both to…
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CAN WE KNOW HER? | Article By HILTON ALS
Years and years ago, a friend and I thought to write a movie. The film was the story of a Caribbean-born woman who leaves her island as a teen-ager; she’s employed as a kind of companion to the wife of a wealthy vacationing French family. The time: the nineteen-twenties. Once in Paris, the young…
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A Moment of Silence for Award-Winning Actress, Ruby Dee
Ruby Dee, the award-winning actress whose seven-decade career included triumphs on stage and screen, has died. She was 91 and transitioned on Thursday, June 12, 2014. Famous Quotes by Ruby Dee: “The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.” “You just try to do everything that comes up. Get up an hour earlier,…
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Rufus Reid |Quiet Pride: The Elizabeth Catlett Project
Listen to tracks from the album (Quiet Pride: The Elizabeth Catlett Project) while reading this article. In the work of the late sculptress Elizabeth Catlett, bassist and composer Rufus Reid found emotional and physical revelations – and the inspiration to take on the mos ambitious project of his career It’s little wonder that Rufus…
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On the Cover Brotha | Online Archive of African American Males: Magazine Covers
“On the Cover Brotha” which archives magazine covers featuring black men. The covers and the men are as diverse and varied as the magazines featuring them as subjects. Page covers are featured from defunct black men’s magazines EM/Ebony Man, Code, and UNTOLD. Those magazines really and truly “represented” and I’m excited to share those…
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Shantrelle P. Lewis interviews Najee Dorsey Founder of Black Art In America
Najee Dorsey converses with a variety of characters, confronting past narratives, personal demons, resistance, and independence. He applies various 2-D and 3-D formats to manipulate representations of historic figures, antiques, folktales, and vintage photos that create a narrative about a misrepresented people. It is quite evident that Najee Dorsey is both a self-taught artist…
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The Changing Complex Profile of Black Abstract Painters
Long marginalized by their community and overlooked by the art market, African American abstractionists are finally coming into the spotlight “Donald Judd didn’t have to explain himself. Why do I have to?” asks Jennie C. Jones, an African American abstract painter who has grappled with the issue of how her work can or should…
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Summer Lecture | Fat Man in Bronzeville: Archibald Motley’s Art
Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist Discover how Archibald Motley’s paintings have captured worldwide attention for their rainbow-hued, syncopated compositions, and discover their genesis in Chicago’s burgeoning black community during the interwar years. These frenetic, colorful canvases of middle-class sitting rooms, glittery cabarets, shadowy pool halls, neon-lit street scenes, and illicit “Black and Tan” clubs…
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