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October Gallery is Celebrating 27 Years in the African American Art Industry and has operated a physical art gallery in Philadelphia, PA since 1985. We have been connecting people with art for 27 years. We deliver magic and romance to the art experience. October Gallery believes that art is for everyone. We like to compare …
Is it worth creating art or Giclee prints of your work and what does it involve? From Denise Macgregor Think about all the time and effort you put into a painting. And then the joy of selling it. Trouble is, when it is gone, it is gone. And you have to start all over again. Now …
As the History of Art Department’s non-Western requirements come under fire this semester, the department is continuing an effort to emphasize a more globalized approach to the study of art. This fall the department hired two new professors with backgrounds in African diaspora art: Erica James, founding director and chief curator of the National Art …
While all artists create their own works of art, Cuban American artist José Bedia is making the jump from artist to curator at the UCLA Fowler Museum. Bedia will be curating “Bedia Selects,” an exhibition at the Fowler consisting of more than 30 pieces, selected by Bedia himself from the museum’s collection. “Bedia Selects” also …
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The inaugural Houston Fine Art Fair reported robust sales for its exceptional roster of prominent exhibitors including galleries from 13 European and Latin American countries. Fair officials estimated sales at approximately $6 million and total attendance at the George R. Brown, Sept. 15 – 18, for the inaugural fair was 10,500 with 3,000 attending opening …
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On a once-overlooked corner in Raleigh’s Depot Historic District, a stony Zen-like garden flanks the entrance to a new vision for the city’s arts scene. A museum has opened in a former warehouse, and with new high-rise condos and a bustling restaurant district nearby, it’s designed to add a new dimension to this city’s sense …
In the early 1970s, when Shifra Goldman proposed a doctoral dissertation on modern Mexican art, her professors at UCLAsneered. Compared to European art, the art of Latin America was, in their view, imitative, too political, unworthy of serious scholarly attention. But Goldman, a scrappy civil rights and anti-Vietnam Waractivist who went back to school in …
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Could a painting on a dope dealer’s storefront be the last work of Jean-Michel Basquiat? On a Saturday morning in the early summer of 1988, Jean-Michel Basquiat stepped through the doorway of a bodega on South 4th Street in Williamsburg. It was a tough neighborhood back then, before the condos and restaurants arrived, and the …
Less than a year after opening its high-profile Art of the Americas Wing, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston is set to unveil its latest upgrade — the new $12 million Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art. This weekend a free community day and 24-hour party will celebrate seven new galleries and the 240 …
Organized by the Central Topeka Turnaround Team, the 6th Annual Aaron Douglas Art Fair will celebrate Douglas’s legacy as “the father of African American art” and showcase diverse and emerging artists from the Topeka area. The following is from the Aaron Douglas Art Fair:More than 40 Kansas artists, musicians, and performance artists will gather at …
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“Your presence here is wonderful, but leaving your money behind would even be a little bit better,” Maureen Bunyan, WJLA TV news anchor and mistress-of-ceremonies reminded everyone at the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum’s 44th anniversary luncheon, held Sept. 15 at the National Press Club. The theme of the afternoon, “Community & Creativity,” stemmed from the …
A new US$47.5m (£30m, EUR34m) national attraction examining the heritage of African American music is being planned for Nashville, US, with a proposed opening date of 2013. The National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) is to focus on the impact of African Americans on contemporary music in the US, with roots in around 50 …
There is no work by Ed Paschke. In “Re: Chicago,” the debut exhibit at DePaul University’s new art museum, movers and shakers in the local art world were asked to nominate a Chicago artist who is famous, ought to be famous or used to be famous. “I like to think of it as the democratizing …
The Jewish Museum will present Ezra Jack Keats: A Creative Response, on Thursday, October 17 at 11:30 am. In this lecture, Caldecott Award-winning illustrator Jerry Pinkney shares his reflections on Ezra Jack Keats‘s work and the role of diversity in children’s literature. This lecture is presented in conjunction with the Museum’s new exhibition, The Snowy …
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