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by: ShirleyKinsey The Norton Museum of Art will present an exhibition drawn from the artistic and historical treasures collected by Bernard and Shirley Kinsey of Los Angeles, California. The exhibition, …
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by Dr. Jeff Donaldson Dr. Jeff Donaldson, was a founding member of Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC) and African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists (AfriCobra). He was born December …
by Dr. Murry DePillars Dr. Murry N. DePillars was born in Chicago in 1938. He earned a B.A. in art education and an M.A. in urban studies from Roosevelt University …
by: Emmanuel Jegede This article is focused on some issues concerning contemporary art and its practitioners and art critics as it relates to Nigeria from 1950 to date. In any …
by George Hughes Museums and galleries all over the world regard traditional African art of high aesthetic value. A reputation ignited by the overwhelming influence African art had on modernist …
by: South-African-art.com South African has a rich history of art with the oldest art objects in the world being discovered in a South African cave. Dating from 75,000 years ago, …
BY: STEPHANIE BRICE Stephanie was born in Tanga in Tanzania and educated at Loreto Convent Msongari in Nairobi, Kenya. She then joined the Kenya Arts Society to further her studies. …
By: The gallery of the Caribbean art Artisans representing nearly 20 Caribbean islands will again converge in the British Virgins Islands (BVI) March 5 to 10 for the seventh annualCaribbean …
by: Celin Childs There was a point in history when the African artisans were enlightening the world. They were teaching the Greeks and Romans and building an art history to …
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By Courtney Devores When Johnathan Lee Iverson joined Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey shortly after graduating from college in 1998, he was the first African-American to take on the …
By Melissa Allen Patric McCoy will exhibit the work of many artists for ‘A Diaspora Rhythm’ As a vital piece of its annual Celebration of Black History, Elmhurst College will …
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By ROCHANA RAPKINS Walt Whitman, Spike Lee, Marianne Moore, Richard Wright and The Notorious B.I.G. may not have much in common other than the ability to capture human experience through …
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by: Romane Bearden, Harry Brinton Henderson A landmark work of art history: lavishly illustrated and extraordinary for its thoroughness, A History of African-American Artists — conceived, researched, and written by …
By KENNETH LOWE DECATUR – Vern Taylor has lived in many American cities in his lifetime, from his birth in Virginia to his young life in Washington, D.C., his high …
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