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Enter the Cover Art Archive: 800,000 Album Covers from the 1950s through 2018
From Open Culture: The Cover Art Archive, a joint project of the Internet Archive and MusicBrainz, an “open music encyclopedia that collects music metadata and makes it available to the public. The collection now numbers in the several hundred thousands—upwards of 800,000, according to its results counter—but some of the uploads are not yet complete…
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Women’s (Black) History Month: The Wisdom of Lois Mailou Jones, 2018
The wonderful thing about being an artist is that there is no end to creative expression. Painting is my life; my life is painting. — From “The Life and Art of Lois Mailou Jones”
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Remembering: Peggy Cooper Cafritz, Arts Advocate for Change Transitions at 70
Art does not succeed in time by being more personal, different, or even original than any other. It succeeds by remaining intact, and…containing within its form ideas and associations, which can continue to stimulate people who view it. — Artist’s statement (1967), Richard Hunt Peggy Cooper Cafritz was born on April 7, 1947, in Mobile,…
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Exhibition | Trenton Doyle Hancock: The Re-Evolving Door to the Moundverse
From the Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis: The Re-Evolving Door to the Moundverse invites viewers to encounter the visual narratives of Trenton Doyle Hancock. Through painting, sculpture, and video, Hancock has created a mythological world, one in which an ongoing epic battle rages between good and evil. Raised in a religious home in Paris,…
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Exhibition | Something to Say: The McNay Presents 100 Years of African American Art
From the McNay Art Museum: What the Kelley Collection demonstrates is how African American collectors have emerged over the last 40 years and become important forces in the art world and have an impact on the critical, curatorial, and market positions of African American artists.—Lowery Stokes Sims, former director of the Studio Museum in Harlem…
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Exhibition | Reclaiming the Gaze: African American Prints and Photographs, 1930 to Now
From the Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University: The Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University is pleased to present the exhibition Reclaiming the Gaze, a dynamic survey of African American prints and photographs from the 1930s to the present. These striking works range from the expressionist style of Hale Woodruff to the photographs of the…
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Exhibition | Romare Bearden: Storyteller
From the Emily Lowe Gallery: Romare Bearden: Storyteller @ Emily Lowe Gallery | Through August 17, 2018 The narrative themes of Romare Bearden’s work spanned historical, political, and religious topics. Through his innovative works of art, Bearden communicated his ideas and thoughts about everyday African-American life in 20th century America. The exhibition includes prints in a…
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Photo Exhibit | Tonika Lewis Johnson: Everyday Englewood
From Loyola University Museum of Art: Activist-artist Tonika Lewis Johnson’s visually stunning photographs document daily life in Englewood. Johnson tenderly challenges the sensationalized, damage-centered narrative of the Chicago South Side neighborhood in which she was raised. Her images celebrate the resilience of urban Black culture in Englewood by portraying levity, triumph, joy and normalcy. In…
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aRtbio | Gerard Sekoto, South African Artist
From NLA Designs and Visual Art Art is the spark, the illumination which is socially significant for it brings about understanding. – Gerard Sekoto Gerard Sekoto was born 9 September 1913 in Botshabelo, a German missionary station (Lutheran Church) for the Pedi community in Middleburg, Transvaal. He had a strict Christian upbringing and his family…
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Read/Listen: Slave Narratives
From “No More Auction Block” by Paul Robeson & The Library of Congress: About this Collection Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers’ Project…
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