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Price: $350 Offset Lithograph/Open edition Unsigned Image size: 24.375″ x 32.50″ Paper size: 27.375″ x 35.50″ NOTE: In 2021 a New Version of Sugar Shack was released by the Ernie …
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‘I’m excited to know that what I’ve made has physically never been made before’: Jennifer Packer’s extrasensory paintings come to London Ahead of shows at the Serpentine Galleries in London …
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5 Powerful Stories on Black Art History February 16, 2021 Lela Jenkins, MuSe Intern, Digital Department This February, we’re celebrating Black History Month at The Met. But for African Americans …
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, …
Romare Bearden was born in 1911 in Charlotte, N.C. Romare Bearden lived at various times in Saskatchewan and Pittsburgh. Bearden attended Boston University and New York University. Later, he studied …
“In Conversation: Modern African American Art” comes to the Peabody Essex Museum just as interest in art by black Americans is — belatedly — bubbling to the surface in New …
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Mark BatsonMark Batson is a multi-platinum award winning producer, musician and songwriter for Alicia Keys, Dave Matthews Band, Dr. Dre and Eminem Kendrick Lamar drops number #1 album, To Pimp …
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 …
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Salvador, also known as São Salvador,Salvador de Bahia, and Salvador da Bahia (Brazilian Portuguese: [sawvaˈdoʁ da baˈi.ɐ]), is the capital of the Brazilian state of Bahia. With 2.9 million people (2013), it is the largest city proper in the Northeast Region and the 3rd-largest city …
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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 …
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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 …
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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 …