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East-sider Jama Clayton has found that painting and drawing human portraits brings her joy and helps her explore her African-American heritage. Jama, 17, lives with her mother, Vicki Clayton. The busy teen checks her worries at the door when she picks up a sketch pad. “Drawing calms me down and gives me time to think,” …
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By Kwon Mee-yoo Explore the quintessence of American contemporary art from New York Dada to pop art and postmodernism at “The American Art: Masterpieces of Everyday Life from the Whitney Museum of American Art,” which is underway at the National Museum of Art in Deoksugung, a branch of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea …
*The fifth annual Leimert Park Village Book Fair (LPVBF) will take place in Los Angeles on Saturday, June 25, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in Leimert Park on the Vision Theatre Back lot, located at 43rd Street and Degnan Boulevard. A mix of authors, scholars, poets, spoken-word artists, entertainment and television personalities will be …
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Last month, Graphic Design USA, a monthly news and information magazine for and about the professional design community, honored the Montclair Art Museum with American Inhouse Design Awards for excellence for two recent publications: “Inspiring Greatness: The Story of the Julius Rosenwald Fund” and the Andy Warhol Factory Party invitation. Both pieces were designed by …
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Art is meant to be enjoyed, not stored away. That was the thinking behind Electrolux and Fifth Third Bank’s decision to loan nearly 140 works by Carolinas artists to area nonprofits. One of the biggest exhibitions will be on public display at CMC-Pineville. One of the most distinctive pieces is Tom Stanley’s “en route to …
Now celebrating its 33rd year, the annual Museum Mile Festival takes place rain or shine on Tuesday, June 14, 2011, from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Over 1.5 million people have taken part in this annual celebration since its inception. Festival attendees can walk the Mile between 82nd Street and 105th Street while visiting nine …
Bettye Stull can’t seem to stay retired. She has tried twice, yet she remains a fixture at the King Arts Complex and on the Columbus arts scene in general. Stull, who turns 80 today, has curated exhibits and opened the eyes of children to the joys of creativity since the 1950s. She knew many of …
Money, even for those who don’t work in finance, is still a part of everyday life. Every time we buy food, pay bills or go to work, we deal with it. Because money permeates so much of what we do and what motivates us to be both very good and sometimes very bad, it makes …
The Ensemble Theatre is one of seventeen African American theatres to participate in a national benefit staged play reading of Alice Childress’ Trouble in Mind, Monday, June 20, 2011. “This is a great opportunity to unite a national community of theatres in support of one another,” says Eileen J. Morris, Ensemble Theatre Artistic Director. “It …
Fifty years ago the idea of a white art gallery owner flying down from Atlanta to meet a group of black artists in Fort Pierce would have seemed preposterous. First of all, black artists were virtually unknown in the segregated South; second, where would any aspiring black artist have exhibited his work? White-owned galleries might …
Review by Kremena Nikolova-Fontaine. More than enough articles have been written about the famous French-American artist Louise Bourgeois (b.1911– d. 2010, aged 98), who boasts a prolific career of more than 75 years. Since I reviewed two of the previous exhibitions of the National Gallery of Iceland in my last review, I consciously intended to …
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In the beginning of Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down, Ishmael Reed’s hilarious parody of the dime store Western, Loop Garoo Kid offers his view of the novel as an art form: “No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, …
Anthony Heilbut can lay claim to knowing Mahalia Jackson better than almost anyone else living. He produced some of her seminal recording sessions, and walked away from the experience with his sole Grammy Award. In the new documentary Rejoice & Shout—playing in limited theaters—Heilbut speaks of Jackson in reverent terms. One comment is particularly striking. …
Matt Gray, project director of the non-profitAmerican Opera Projects and Opera on Tap, is out to prove to the world just how vibrant and colorful opera actually can be. On June 12, at DUMBO’s Galapagos Art Space, Gray will present, “Opera Grows in Brooklyn: Opera of Color,” a three-act, 90-minute performance of African-American composers and …
Leopardo and I am African American, Swedish, Italian, French, Native American and Chinese. I identify as multiracial.On April 18, I picked up the Daily Nexus endorsement issue. You can imagine my surprise when I picked up the Nexus and saw the [left] image that was intended to depict me. The skin tone of the image …
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