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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Top 7 Tips for Investing in Art
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...
Empress of the Blues by Romare Bearden
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 with the German expatriate...
Modern African-American art gets the spotlight
“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 England’s art museums. Prompted...
Why 2015 was One of the Most Outstanding Years of Anticipated, Appreciated and Awarded African-American Artistic Achievement in the History of the United States
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 A Butterfly. Considered a...
Stop Giving New York Transplants All The Credit For Detroit’s Art Scene
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...
Travel To Salvador de Bahia
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 proper in the country, after São...
Cheadle’s ‘Ahead’ captures Miles Davis’ spirit
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....
DuSable Museum of African American History Names Chief Curator
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...
HBO Ordered a Black Lives Matter Documentary After Seeing This Year’s Oscar Nominees
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...
Spike Lee Lauds Academy Changes, Still Plans To Skip Oscars
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...
African American Art to be featured in county building
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 Passion for Life
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...
MAYA ANGELOU – US Stamp
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...
Chestnut Hill space spotlights decades of Philly’s black artists
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...