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The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art presents the third offering of its Director’s Discussion Series. Johnnetta Betsch Cole, director of the museum, will have a lively, engaging and thought-provoking …
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January 23, 2013 | Posted by Kevin Webb Rosa Parks will be honored with a commemorative stamp on what would have been her 100th birthday, Feb. 4. The U.S. Postal Service …
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With President Barack Obama sworn in, it’s time to return to a more pressing matter: The bitter in-house dispute between Tavis Smiley, Cornel West and half of black America. One …
Amazing Art December 2, 2010 – 3:55pm — Slouie656 Author: Slouie656 Amazing Art 🙂 By:Since Louie What does art meaningful was ; A lot of people had been enjoying how …
African-American art has so become a part of the cultural landscape that there are very few, regardless of personal preferences, who don’t at least own one piece. What is African-American …
HOUSTON — A man accused of vandalizing a 1929 Pablo Picasso painting in an act caught on cellphone video surrendered Tuesday to federal marshals at the U.S.-Mexico border. Uriel Landeros, …
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One of the reasons I started my website was so that women could have a place to come together and dream. We women need to know that we don’t have …
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The style we now call Art Deco originated in Europe in the early 20th Century, and its heyday was from 1920 to 1940. It became widely known following the great Exposition …
INTRODUCTION Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â ART has not always been what we think it is today. An object regarded as Art today may not have been perceived …
From Shelley Esaak, former About.com Guide Question: What Is Art? Note: This is a question that pops up around once a month, typically from a student who is stumped and …
Welcome to For Your Consideration, HuffPost Entertainment’s weekly breakdown of all things Oscar. Between now and Feb. 25, 2013, executive arts and entertainment editor Michael Hogan and entertainment editor Christopher …
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Daniel Licht I have had the good fortune to work on a composer’s dream show Dexter, and now I am happy to be a part of the Deception team which, …
Retro, meet retro. Polaroid is planning to open at least ten “experimental” retail Fotobar stores, where customers can edit and print photos taken on their smartphone and stored by …
The auction results are in — pop artist extraordinaire Andy Warhol has snagged the position as the world’s biggest seller at auction last year. The Campbell Soup connoisseur raked in …
Jonathon Keats is the author of Forged: Why Fakes are the Great Art of Our Age ($19.95, OUP) “Utterly rotten.” Those were the words with which Tom Keating described the …