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Origami cranes, folded by fans are displayed at an exhibition for paying tribute to Leslie Cheung at a shopping mall in Hong Kong Saturday, March 30, 2013. The exhibition is held to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of Hong Kong screen and singing legend Leslie Cheung. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung) HONG KONG — Almost …
Blue Eyed Soul Singers Justin Timberlake For his debut album, “Justified,” Timberlake enlisted hip-hop producers Timbaland and Pharrell Williams and has since kept close ties to hip-hop and R&B by appearing on songs with Beyonce, T-Pain, Ciara and Snoop Dogg, to name a few. Adele Known for her soulful tracks, the Grammy Award-winning singer has …
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Justin Timberlake made his triumphant return to the music charts this week as the singer’s latest opus, “The 20/20 Experience” landed at number one selling over 968,000 copies. An accomplishment, which has resulted in the singer’s best sales week ever. While some may have a distaste for the album’s lead single, “Suit & Tie,” or …
The Huffington Post | By Julee Wilson Devyn Abdullah is the first winner of “The Face,” Naomi Campbell’s modeling reality show. The 21-year-old New York City native beat out a bevy of beauties for the title while competing on supermodel Karolina Kurková’s team. Devyn’s win has also earned her the opportunity to front Ulta Beauty’s …
The Huffington Post | By Julee Wilson Last week Allure revealed its first-ever anti-aging survey for the April 2013 issue. Amongst fascinating findings on sex appeal, beauty and celebrities–the study also found that black women believe they age the best. Duh! Black don’t crack. The glossy tapped a few age-defying stars to be photographed with …
Patricia Coleman-Cobb is the award-winning designer and creator of The Cobblestone Collection, a collection of handmade, sculpted, and soft sculptured figures. The collection also includes many other works of art including sculpted busts, framed art, and beautifully sculpted faces encased in exquisitely framed shadow boxes. Ms Coleman-Cobb has personally hand crafted each and every detail …
Rising Up: Hale Woodruff’s Murals at Talladega College March 23 – June 16, 2013 CHICAGO CULTURAL CENTER 78 East Washington Street, 4th Floor Exhibit Hall Chicago, IL FROM THE CHICAGO READER: In 1938, Talladega College commissioned the Harlem Renaissance artist Hale Aspacio Woodruff to paint six murals to hang in a campus library. Three tell the …
[easyrotator]erc_31_1351232214[/easyrotator] As a motivational speaker and a photographer, I recently realized that my lens can also be my microphone. For Black History Month, I wanted to create a campaign that would empower and excite young people about their history and their future in a creative and yet relatable way. I thought about my two sons …
The Baltimore Sun | By John Fritze President Barack Obama will sign a proclamation Monday creating a Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument on the Eastern Shore, a designation long sought by advocates and a bipartisan group of lawmakers. The designation protects the land from development and complements plans to create a state park in …
NEW YORK — The opening sentence was as simple, declarative and revolutionary as a line out of Hemingway: “Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond,” Chinua Achebe wrote in “Things Fall Apart.” Africans, the Nigerian author announced more than 50 years ago, had their own history, their own celebrities and reputations. …
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Gravity isn’t kind to aging bodies, but the decades-long transformation makes for a gentle easing into wrinkles, cellulite and skin flaps. Not so with “Gravity,” a video installation by Michael Haussman. The artist asked his subjects to jump on a trampoline while he shot them at 2,000 frames per second. In the post-production stage, …
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The Huffington Post | By Julee Wilson With all the talk about the lack of diversity within the fashion industry, you’d think black models would band together for support and show the world what it’s missing. So it was a bit disheartening when Devyn, a supermodel hopeful from Naomi Campbell’s TV show “The Face,” revealed …
If art is your passion and you would like to make a career out of it, this video will teach you how to become a professional artist. Learn the steps you need to take and what you might have to do in order to fulfill your dream.
A few tips for artists, based only on my own experience, on the best way to go about seeking representation from an art gallery.
Although the term “Starving Artist” does not apply to the Painter, Kerream Jones, the hunger of the self-described visual griot is evident in the sensual depths of his paintings, the relentless drive of his business ventures, and in his appreciation for all things creative, expressive, and true. Since beginning his journey toward artistic excellence …