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ART NOTES | Tupac Shakur
You either evolve or disappear.
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Jazz Artist | Art Shay, 1951
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BLACK HISTORY AT THE MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS THE 4TH WALL: MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE
Kosisochukwu Nnebe is Nigerian-Canadian who’s latest project is currently on display at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts as part of their Black History Month program until March 30. Nnebe’s project focuses on the identity of the modern black woman. According to Nnebe, her project is divided into three parts: The first part consists of…
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MoMA Hires Consulting Curator for Black Art
This morning the Museum of Modern Art sent out a press release, as they often do, announcing a curatorial appointment. This one, however, caught my eye: underneath the headline in my inbox announcing “Darby English Named Consulting Curator at The Museum of Modern Art,” there was a dek: “Leading Scholar to Focus on MoMA’s Collection and Presentation of…
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The Imaginarium of Black Cinema | The African American Museum of Cinema
Housed in a small office space in Harlem’s Adam Clayton Powell Jr. state office building, the Museum of African American Cinema (MoAAC) contains over 4,000 collectible items, from vintage film prints to original costumes from films like Malcolm X and Ghost Dad. Gregory Javan Mills, Ernest N. Steele and 20 other founding members established MoAAC as a non-profit back in 2001, after seeing the need…
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ARTWORK | Scarlett in a new-ish dress
Scarlett in a new-ish dress. Sketchbook thing. Sorting through confused bits, modifying patterns. I’m rebuilding myself; ship of Theseus – oldish and newish and altogether different. (Poem by Artist)
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MARCH 2014 | BLACK WOMEN’S LIBRARY HISTORY MONTH
Learn more about African American women in librarianship an art via your local library! Get You Some History!
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More Than Enough White Curators? | ON THE “A” WITH SOULEO
It wasn’t until graduate school that Michelle Joan Wilkinson, director of collections and exhibitions at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture, realized that becoming a curator could be a viable profession. She now hopes the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s recent announcement of a diversity initiative to provide curatorial training…
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ARTIST TALK | Nathaniel Donnet @ The Contemporary Houston
CONTEMPORARY ARTS MUSEUM HOUSTON Date | March 13th @ 6:30 PM | 5216 Montrose Boulevard – Houston, TX Cost: FREE From the CAMH web site: Join artist Nathaniel Donnett for a lecture held in conjunction with the exhibition Black in the Abstract, Part 2: Hard Edges/Soft Curves. Donnett will discuss his artwork by presenting insights…
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Exhibition | Library of Love | Artist Krista Franklin
Date: February 21 – March 31, 2014 Reception: Friday, February 21, 2014, 6:00 – 9:00PM Exhibit hours: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 12:00 – 3:00PM, and during public events ARTS AND PUBLIC LIFE Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture 301 East Garfield Boulevard Chicago, IL Library of Love is a visual love letter to…
ART | library deco 