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Price: $545 The Book Itself Not Digital. This book is currently out of print. We have only a few left. Soft cover only. Book Description: 502 Page Coffee Table Art Book This book is a written account of what October Gallery (OG) means to us. We attempted to unfold the saga of how OG evolved …
By Judy Martel, Bankrate.com Art can be a tempting investment, with its creative mystique and potential for soaring values. Attending glittering events such as the annual Art Basel Miami Beach, a four-day, celebrity-studded event representing more than 2,000 contemporary artists, makes it that much harder to resist. Whether your tastes are classic or avant-garde, art …
Born in the late 40’s in Akron, Ohio, Woodrow Nash is the product of sanctified churches, 1950’s television images, and black inner city neighborhood schools run by predominantly white middle-class educators. The young student immersed himself in art during an era when artists sought nothing less than old-fashioned honesty in their imagery. As a freelance artist, …
Michael van Rensburg THE most successful art investors are profit driven, numbers savvy, and always on the lookout for opportunities. Futuregrowth portfolio manager Michael van Rensburg has been investing in art for almost 20 years. “Ever since I was a young school boy, I’ve been spotting opportunities to buy and sell things to make a …
An Eye For Art – Learning to View and Appreciate Art Here is a checklist with some key components for An Eye For Art. . Describe the Work of Art. Try to determine what you see. Is this a portrait, landscape, abstraction? What is the subject matter? Look at the artist’s work of art and …
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Black (art) is beautiful African-American works highlighted at Liacouras Center this weekend By ROBERT STRAUSS For the Daily News Posted: November 06, 2006 WHEN STEPHANIE Daniel was growing up in Boston, going to visit relatives on Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts every summer, the idea that there was an African-American art community was not really a …
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Visionaries and Voices (V&V) has experienced many changes in the decade since it was first incorporated as a nonprofit organization. During the late 2000s, V&V put on countless exhibitions (inside and outside of their own galleries), hosted street festivals, outgrew several studios and opened a second location in Tri-county to serve clients farther from their …
Christopher Lamb Professor of Journalism, University of Indiana-Indianapolis When Jackie Robinson took the field for the first time in a Brooklyn Dodgers uniform, he shattered baseball’s color barrier. But more than that, he confronted racial discrimination in America, giving millions of blacks hope for equality not only in sports but in jobs, housing and education. …
FREE DOWNLOAD The Complete Book – “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill Download the classic 1937 unabridged edition of “Think And Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill . Think and Grow Rich is a 1937 motivational personal development and self-help book by Napoleon Hill and inspired by a suggestion from Scottish-American businessman Andrew Carnegie. …
PARIS — France’s Louvre museum is getting a new director – the man who is leading the restoration of its most famous Greek sculpture and has his hands in some of the institutions latest efforts to expand its reach. Jean-Luc Martinez, a French specialist in Greek, Roman and Etruscan antiquities who has worked at the …
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Bobby Elliott Writer living in New York City On the surface, “An Economy of Grace” at Sean Kelly (528 W. 29th) is a well-timed game-changer for painter Kehinde Wiley. After making a name for himself by exclusively painting men, “An Economy of Grace” presents Wiley’s first series of portraits featuring women. For those who have …
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by Jessica Kramer Conference Producer, The Conference Forum Kara Walker is no stranger to controversy. On Thursday, March 7, 2013, the African-American visual artist addressed a room of more than 100 people in New Jersey’s Newark Public Library to talk about her work and its most recent firestorm. Walker, perhaps best known for her murals …
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Joe Satran On a recent afternoon at Julius Lowy Frame and Restoration Co., a three-by-four frame sat on a work table, shining with freshly-applied gold leaf. The craftsmen at Lowy, as it’s known, still apply gold leaf by hand, a painstaking process that starts with coating a wood frame with successive layers of gesso, yellow …
By Hilarie M. Sheets In 1976, New York philanthropist, art patron, and collector Agnes Gund read in The New York Times that art programs were being slashed from New York City public schools due to drastic budget cuts. Her response to the article was to found Studio in a School, a program that since its …
Vol. 24, No. 2 – A special issue of the International Review of African American Art on connections between mass media, pop culture, digital technologies and visual art. “Artists are just as much products of contemporary popular culture, in all its mass technological – media frenzy, as we are — we average, non-artistic folk. As …
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