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ALL-STAR TRIBUTE TO NMAAHC AIRS TONIGHT THURSDAY, JANUARY 12
From NMAAHC The National Museum of African American History and Culture takes center stage on ABC Television on Thursday. The network will air “Taking the Stage: African American Music and Stories that Changed America” on ABC stations nationwide at 9 pm ET/8 pm CT. Filmed live at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing…
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2017 | Black Fashion Designers Exhibition
From The Museum at FIT Fashion & Textile History Gallery December 6 – May 16, 2017 Share using #BlackFashionDesigners on Twitter and Instagram. There have been past exhibitions about individual black fashion designers, such as Stephen Burrows and Patrick Kelly, but this exhibition explores the experiences of several generations of fashion designers of African descent…
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2017 | I, too, am America: A Song of Race and Language
From Black Art in America January 24, 2017 – Saturday, March 25, 2017 Community Folk Art Center 805 E. Genesee Street Syracuse, NY 13210 In Ralph Ellison’s speech “What Children are Like” he discusses subcultures in African American Communities and how they are reflected through language. In conjunction with the powerful words of Langston Hughes,…
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#freebooks | Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, by Trevor Noah
Free Audio Book: Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, by Trevor Noah Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa…
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The 24 Best Art Magazine Covers of 2016
From Culture Type NOTHING BEATS LEAFING through the pages of a visually inspiring print publication, except perhaps that initial moment of spotting a compelling magazine cover on the newsstand or newly delivered to your mailbox. Over the past year, art magazines have selected winning images paying tribute to painter Kerry James Marshall, marking the historic…
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2017 | CONGO ART WORKS: POPULAR PAINTING
From BOZAR: 07 OCTOBER ’16 — 22 JANUARY ’17 CONGO ART WORKS : POPULAR PAINTING Just like music and dance, popular painting is inextricably linked to daily life; and this is also the case in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It gives us an impression of the collective memory and this is clear to see…
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2017 | The Photography of Bereniece Abott’s: The Harlem Community Art Center, Changing New York
From The Arts At Page Library: The Photography of Berneice Abbott, The Harlem Community Art Center, Changing New York Jefferson City, MO–The Arts At Page Library – Online Exhibition Space presents a unique up close and personal exhibition featuring the photography of Berneice Abbott – a critically acclaimed photographer on December 19, 2016, on view…
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2017 | What Is The Meaning Of Outsider Art? The Genre With A Story, Not A Style
From Do YOU Basel What Is The Meaning Of Outsider Art? The Genre With A Story, Not A Style— there is a dark side to the quickly rising popularity of art explicitly made possible by suffering, whether of mind or physical circumstances. But there is also an undeniable magic to the ethos of the fair —…
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2017 | The Ease of Fiction
From California African American Museum In The Ease of Fiction, works by four contemporary African artists living in the United States serve as a foundation for a critical discussion about history, fact, and fiction. Recent paintings, drawings, and sculptural works by ruby onyinyechi amanze (b. 1982, Nigeria), Duhirwe Rushemeza (b. 1977, Rwanda), Sherin Guirguis (b.…
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