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Virtual Tour: Inside Brazil’s Museu Nacional, The Collection Before the Fire in 2018
From Google Arts & Culture: About Virtual Tour “You can take a virtual tour of the highlights of the Museu Nacional as it was here, a tour that of course includes a visit with the museum’s prized possession: the 12,000-year old Luzia, the oldest skeleton found in the Americas, whom you can see just as…
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Books: TASCHEN’s art catalog (new edition) is a massive 500-page edition that showcases the life and works of Jean-Michel Basquiat
From TASCHEN: Description IN A NUTSHELL Look closely at the complex signs and scribbles of Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose paintings today retain the same freshness and validity as in the New York of the 1980s. This monograph in size XXL brings together exquisite reproductions of the artist’s most outstanding works, accompanied by texts by the editor…
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View: Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection, Cornell University Library DIGITAL COLLECTIONS
From Cornell University Library DIGITAL COLLECTIONS: PERSUASIVE CARTOGRAPHY …
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View: “A Great Day in Harlem,” Photo by Art Kane
From Open Culture: Sixty years ago, Art Kane assembled one of the largest groups of jazz greats in history. No, it wasn’t an all-star big band, but a meeting of veteran legends and young upstarts for the iconic photograph known as “A Great Day in Harlem.” Fifty-seven musicians gathered outside a brownstone at 17 East…
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New Course: The History, Presence, and Possibility of Black Museums
From the Smithsonian: Enrollment is now open for the Smithsonian Institution’s new online course, The History, Presence, and Possibility of Black Museums. The course will be offered online through the Harvard extension program for continuing education beginning January 30 – March 9, 2019. The last day to register without a late fee is Jan. 27, 2019. Division of Continuing Education…
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Art News: The Association of African American Museums is excited to announce plans for its 41st Annual Conference
From AAAM: The Association of African American Museums is excited to announce plans for its 41st Annual Conference, August 7-10, 2019 in Jackson, Mississippi. The theme of the Conference, Roots of Revolution: Reaching Back | Pushing Forward, signifies a chance to usefully look to our shared past to inform and empower the crafting of our futures amid challenging times. As…
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Opportunity: Academic Research, Digital Humanities, and Creative Study 2019 Fellowships Annouced
From The HistoryMakers: The HistoryMakers – the nation’s largest African American video oral history archive – invites applications for one of three sets of fellowships – Academic Research, Digital Humanities, and Creative Study – created from funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, for the period of Summer 2019 (April–September 2019). Applicant’s work must come out of their use of, and/or be…
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Another Year, African American Art 365
ART | library deco has an exciting year ahead and gladly would like for you to continue following our digital library, African American art platform. We look forward to our journey with you in 2019! Respectfully, ART | library deco, “sweet as the moment, went art went “pop” Become an ART library patron today!
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Transition: Roy Anthony Hargrove, Jazz Trumpeter (1968-2018)
The ART | library deco editorial team is saddened by the news that the great jazz trumpeter, Roy Hargrove transitioned on November 2, 2018. He was 49 years old. Obituary: Roy Hargrove was born on October 16, 1969 in Waco, Texas. Hargrove was the bandleader of the progressive group The RH Factor, which combined elements of jazz,…
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ArtNews: VMFA Announces New Internship Funded by Souls Grown Deep Foundation
From the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: Fall/Winter 2018 New grant program supports undergraduate students of color Richmond, Virginia – The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is one of three U.S. art museums to participate in a new grant program supported by the Atlanta-based Souls Grown Deep Foundation. The program provides paid internships to undergraduate…
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