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Genealogy: Join Free Research Group | Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission
From the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission: RESEARCH | Are you a community member, student, professor, artist or independent scholar engaged in studying some aspect of Gullah Geechee culture or land use? In January 2018, the Commission will begin convening a free, monthly conference call designed to help facilitate your research and creative work in…
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Read: James Baldwin and Chinua Achebe’s Forgotten Conversation About Beauty, Morality, and the Political Power of Art
From Brainpickings: Article Excerpt By Maria Popova Achebe begins by defining an aesthetic as “those qualities of excellence which culture discerns from its works of art” and argues that our standards for this excellence are mutable — constantly changing, in a dynamic interaction with our social, cultural, and political needs: Aesthetic cannot be fixed, immutable.…
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ArtTalks: Lyle Ashton Harris: Today I Shall Judge Nothing That Occurs at the Whitney Museum
From the Whitney Museum of American Art: To celebrate the publication of Today I Shall Judge Nothing That Occurs, a book of Lyle Ashton Harris’s Ektachrome archive, Harris is joined by an intergenerational group of artists and writers for a night of conversation and reflection. Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, Harris photographed the radical cultural…
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#freebooks: African Voices | Summer 2017 Digital Issue
From African Voices: “A Soulful Collection of Art and Literature” Our digital Summer 2017 issue celebrates the power of graphic novelists to create heroines and heroes that honor our legacy and future! Special thanks to artists Afua Richardson and N. Steven Harris for allowing African Voices to share their work on our front covers — this is the first double issue in the…
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Art.Education: Digital Blackness in the Archive: A Documenting the Now Symposium – View Online
From DocNow: The second Documenting the Now symposium, to be held in conjunction with our advisory board meeting, will address issues at the intersection of archival practice and the existence of Black people on the web and social media. Invited speakers will discuss their work on the Black experience in online spaces including research on…
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Literary Art: Dallas Humanities Institute, Presents | A Different Perspective, Reading James Baldwin in Digital Age
From Cultural Front: During the month of December, Dr. Kenton Rambsy will offer a three-part class on writer and social critic James Baldwin at the Dallas Institute for Humanities. The course, “A Different Perspective: Reading James Baldwin in the Digital Age,” will draw on various online data sources to situate Baldwin’s life and works within…
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View Art: ‘Dancing People: Candombe (Personas bailando: [Candombe])’ by Pedro Figari
From the LACMA Public Domain: Curator’s Notes Dancing People: Candombe (Personas bailando: [Candome]) Artist: Pedro Figari (Uruguay, 1861-1938) Uruguay, circa 1920 Paintings Oil on board Frame: 29 1/2 × 35 1/2 × 3 1/2 in. (74.93 × 90.17 × 8.89 cm) Gift of Gregory Peck (M.91.162) Latin American Art This work depicts a candombe — a…
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ArtSeries: ‘Stop Telling Women To Smile’
From Stop Telling Women To Smile, Stop Telling Women to Smile is an art series by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh. The work attempts to address gender based street harassment by placing drawn portraits of women, composed with captions that speak directly to offenders, outside in public spaces. Tatyana Falalizadeh is an illustrator/painter based in Brooklyn, mostly known for…
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ArtWorthy: ‘She’s Gotta Have It’ – Nola Darling’s, Artistic Expressions
ART_library deco: Spike Lee released his latest body of work, a reboot of his 1986 film, ‘She’s Gotta Have It’ on Thanksgiving Day. There are numerous articles and reviews on the net about Nola Darling and her journey as a Black woman, her right to be free, and make her own decisions on her own terms…
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FreeArt: Get a Free Museum Membership at Participating Locations
From ART_library deco, Below are a few museums that we researched that offer free museum memberships in the United States. Take a look at each one and sign up today. Each membership is good for a year. Yale University Art Gallery As a free member, you will enjoy: Invitations to exhibitions and other programs at the Gallery Subscription to the Gallery’s tri-annual magazine…
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