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Research: GETTY RESEARCH INSTITUTE LAUNCHES AFRICAN AMERICAN ART HISTORY INITIATIVE AND WILL ACQUIRE ARCHIVE OF LOS ANGELES ARTIST BETYE SAAR
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SEPTEMBER| 2018 LOS ANGELES – The Getty Research Institute (GRI) announced the establishment of the African American Art History Initiative with the acquisition of the archive of world-renowned artist Betye Saar (American, b. 1926). The African American Art History Initiative is an ambitious program to establish the Getty Research Institute as a…
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Roots: FREE National Archives Virtual Genealogy Fair 2018
Media Release: October 24, 2018 – Save the date! Sixth Annual Virtual Genealogy Fair Every year, the National Archives hosts a virtual Genealogy Fair via live webcast on YouTube. The sessions offer family history research tools on Federal records for all skill levels. Thousands of family historians participate in the live event. As a virtual attendee,…
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Event: Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection @ SNITE Museum of ART
From Snite Museum of Art: O’Shaughnessy Galleries Through December 15, 2018 Drawing on the Joyner/Giuffrida Collection, this exhibition celebrates Modern and contemporary artists of African descent, many of whom were historically overlooked by collectors, critics, scholars, galleries, and museums. A central theme is the power of abstract art as a profound political choice and as…
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Exhibition: “Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing, September 15, 1963”
Media Release: The Library of Congress wishes to bring to your attention a new agile case display “Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing, September 15, 1963.” This exhibit memorializes that traumatic event that took place fifty-five years ago, when four young girls were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan while attending Sunday school. The victims…
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Exhibition: Beyond Borders: Global Africa, at the University of Michigan Museum of Art
From the University of Michigan Museum of Art: Bringing together paintings, photographs, sculpture and installations created in Africa, Europe and the United States from the 19th to the 21st centuries, Beyond Borders: Global Africa features approximately 40 works of art drawn from UMMA’s African art collection and from private and public holdings around the world,…
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Event: Intentionally Digital, Intentionally Black” AADHum Conference …
From Save the date and join the African American Digital Humanities Initiative (AADHum) at the University of Maryland for the first national conference, “Intentionally Digital, Intentionally Black,” October 18-20, 2018. Location: University of Maryland, College Park What happens to digital humanities inquiry when we begin with Black culture, Black thought, and Black persons at the…
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Exhibition: Fondazione Prada presents “The Black Image Corporation” by Theaster Gates
From Fondazione Prada: Fondazione Prada presents “The Black Image Corporation”, an exhibition conceived by Theaster Gates, from 20 September 2018 to 14 January 2019 at the Osservatorio venue in Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, Milan. The project explores the fundamental legacy of Johnson Publishing Company archives, which feature more than 4 million images and have contributed to…
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Listen: Langston Hughes, Classic: Harlem in Vogue… ft. Charles Mingus
From ART | library deco: Langston Hughes Harlem in Vogue: The Poetry and Jazz of Langston Hughes These poems are dark and bitter, “some of the harshest political verse ever penned by an American,” writes Hughes scholar Arnold Rampersad. Langston Hughes – narrator Charles Mingus – bass Jimmy Knepper – trombone Shafi Hadi – tenor…
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ART Event: Studio Salon | Open Archive, Studio Museum Harlem
From Studio Museum Harlem: Studio Salon: Open Archive Wednesday, September 19, 1–5:30 pm Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Blvd Join the Studio Museum Harlem and the Schomburg Center for an archivist-led tour of the collections followed by a Wikipedia edit-a-thon with the Black Lunch Table inspired by archival materials highlighted…
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Exhibition: BLACK WOMEN AGAINST THE ODDS, The George Washington Carver Museum, Cultural & Genealogy Center
From The George Washington Carver Museum, Cultural & Genealogy Center: Exhibition On View Through October 4, 2018 Produced by the Smithsonian Institute in 1975, Black Women: Achievements Against the Odds features the groundbreaking accomplishments of women who resisted oppression to ensure a more justice and equitable society for all. From civil rights icons to literary scholars,…
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