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CHARLOTTE, NC.- Through the creation of a shared Creative Director position, Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture and McColl Center for Visual Art have taken a historic …
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Decisions on MLK memorial raise debate By Linda Conleylinda.conley@shj.com Published: Sunday, June 6, 2010 at 3:15 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, June 6, 2010 at 1:06 a.m. ( page 1 of …
BY KATHLEEN PURVIS – The Charlotte Observer Charlotte — It’s called the Latibah Collard Green Museum. But the small museum on Cullman Avenue isn’t about greens or cooking. It’s about …
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Marina The PoetAuthor/Poet/Playwright/Workshop Facilitator/Visionary Marina has never been one to follow the crowd. Even as a young child, when most girls her age played with dolls, she begged her parents …
JORDAN E. BROOKS“I’m so attracted to different ends of art, that some what influence my not yet defined style of art. Just so much is out there that people have …
Leimert Park Village Book Fair Announces 2010 Lineup Of Authors The Leimert Park Village Book Fair will feature booksignings, writing workshops, panel discussions, poetry readings, stage performances, musical entertainment and …
Introducing Collector Hub, A New Name For A Trusted Online Community Formerly known as BlackshearOnline, Collector Hub continues the same great service of offering collectors and enthusiasts the latest and …
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Sunday, August 1, 2010 12:30 to 5:30 PM6353 Greene Street, Philadelphia, PA 19144267-297-0188 View Art Up for Bid This is a premiere collectors art AUCTION series featuring some of the …
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Black Art will always be relevant to me. As a Baby Boomer I saw Jim Crow and racial troubles and Black Art helps me to connect with my roots. I …
If a major American city wants to be taken seriously as a cultural center, it needs a world-class art museum. Such institutions are a ubiquitous presence everywhere from New York …
By Kola TubosunMarch 6, 2010 03:27PM Theatre seems always justified by catharsis, as there is nothing as innately fulfilling as the wonderful sense of exhilaration that comes from seeing a …
By Mark BermanSunday,March 7, 2010 Sunday’s 82nd annual Academy Awards should offer a dazzling combination of excitement (look, a famous person!) and sheer boredom (the front-runners in all the major …
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A fair number of the guards at the Metropolitan Museum of Art are artists themselves, yearning for a little exposure. Now they are stepping into the spotlight with a new …
On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the theft of masterpieces from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the FBI is resubmitting evidence taken from the crime scene for DNA …
Two institutions, several miles apart – one newly formed and the other 70 years old – held celebrations last week, and both offer greater promise for African-Americans and the broad …
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