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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 and, next year, at MoCA in Los Angeles, the US painter reflects on the power—and constraints—of her medium Margaret Carrigan 4 December 2020 Share Jennifer …
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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 such as myself, every month is Black History Month. So we’re taking this opportunity to celebrate the Black art and identities that have been crucial …
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 Barnes Estate without the Marvin Gaye Banner. This is the current Sugar Shack we are selling now. Barnes created the painting Sugar Shack in …
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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 representing more than 2,000 contemporary artists, makes it that much harder to resist. Whether your tastes are classic or avant-garde, art …
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 George Grosz at the Art Students’ League. His first job, in 1938, was as a caseworker with the New York City …
“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 by the opening of its Art of the Americas Wing, the Museum of Fine Arts, in particular, has spent several years …
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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 A Butterfly. Considered a genre bending, crown achievement for hip-hop music, Kendrick’s 2015 album opened the doors for the possibility of the rebirth of classic …
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 the shoes in his 2011 Detroit installation “Street Folk.” Guyton is most known for the Heidelberg Project, a permanent public art park he …
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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 proper in the country, after São Paulo andRio de Janeiro. Founded by the Portuguese in 1549 as the first capital of Brazil, Salvador is one of the oldest colonial cities in theAmericas. A …
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. EDT October 11, 2015 NEW YORK — Miles Ahead isn’t your standard biopic. Unlike most films based on real people, Don Cheadle’s Miles Davis yarn is …
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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 in Philadelphia. Born and educated on the East Coast, Guy is the former director of curatorial services for the African American Museum ofPhiladelphia. She said she …
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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 other activist groups work tirelessly to expose the systemic injustices that have permeated certain law enforcement agencies for far too long. Though Black Lives Matter …
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 “trying to do the right thing.” PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Spike Lee applauds the Academy for making changes to increase …
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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 the Morris County Administration & Records Building. A free opening reception will be held on Jan. 29 from 6 to 9:30 p.m. at the …
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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 a nod to Social Realism and Dutch genre painting, he portrayed the simplicities of everyday life and examined the complexities of the human condition. Turner …