Sugar Shack by Ernie Barnes
OUT STOCK Lithograph/Open edition Unsigned Image size: 24″h x 34″w Paper size: 27″h x 37″w “Sugar Shack” Barnes created the painting Sugar Shack in the early 1970s. It gained international exposure when it was...
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OUT STOCK Lithograph/Open edition Unsigned Image size: 24″h x 34″w Paper size: 27″h x 37″w “Sugar Shack” Barnes created the painting Sugar Shack in the early 1970s. It gained international exposure when it was...
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...
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Move from Brooklyn to Detroit for the cheap rent: get applause. Spend years building your hometown’s arts community: get ignored. Kate Abbey-Lambertz National Reporter, The Huffington Post CARLOS OSORIO /ASSOCIATED PRESS Artist Tyree Guyton arranges...
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Cheadle, pictured on the Cincinnati set of ‘Miles Ahead’ in July 2014. The Miles Davis film is planned for release by Sony Pictures Classics next year. (Photo: Madison Schmidt, AP) Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY3:09 p.m....
CHICAGO, Jan. 22, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — The DuSable Museum of African American History has a new chief curator – Leslie Guy, an arts consultant and curator of collections and exhibits for museums and private collectors in Philadelphia. Born and educated...
Image via Fibonacci Blue BY TRACE WILLIAM COWEN I’d be happy to waste more of your time here: @TraceCowen As harrowing instances of racially charged police brutality continue to plague the nation, Black Lives Matter and other activist groups work...
ANGELA WEISS VIA GETTY IMAGES Lee said he would skip the Academy Awards and go to the Knicks game instead. Lee praised Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs and the organization’s board of governors for...
Special to the Daily Record 9:50 a.m. EST January 22, 2016 Morris Arts and Art in the Atrium are sponsoring an exhibition of African American art that will be featured in the Morris County Administration...
Andrew Turner by October Gallery Staff Inspired by art history’s masters, Andrew Turner painted the African American experience in a style that embraced the embolden, thick brushstrokes of Expressionism. With a nod to Social...
Author, poet, actress, and champion of civil rights Dr. Maya Angelou (1928–2014) was one of the most dynamic voices in all of 20th-century American literature. The book I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, an...
BY DAN GERINGER, Staff Writer POSTED: January 05, 2016 CLIFFORD WARD, a Center City artist whose sculptures draw heavily on the African diaspora, said the exhibit “We Speak: Black Artists of Philadelphia, 1920s-1970s” at the...