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BY DAN GERINGER, Staff Writer POSTED:Â 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 …
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Post-black art is a category of contemporary African American art. It is a paradoxical genre of art where race and racism are intertwined in a way that …
Home / Life / Discover / TMA spotlights African-American art with ‘Embracing Diverse Voices’ TMA spotlights African-American art with ‘Embracing Diverse Voices’ Published on Saturday, 9 January 2016 19:16 – Written by JON PERRY, Special to …
80-Year-Old Black Artist Leo Twiggs Uses Confederate Flag To Create Art   | By BY SUSANNE M. SCHAFER Posted: 10/08/2014 10:44 pm EDT Updated: 10/08/2014 10:59 pm EDT ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) — Leo Twiggs’ …
Artist Hale Aspacio Woodruff was commissioned to paint the Amistad Murals in 1938. Peter Harholdt/Copyright Talladega College Most Americans know little about the painter Hale Woodruff, but he had a profound influence …
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 The Community Art project area allows anyone especially children to draw and paint and have their works posted on the board as part of the COMMON GROUND exhibition at the …
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by Sarah Rose Sharp on January 7, 2016 DETROIT — Can an exhibition be informed by the place it visits? 30 Americans, a survey of works by African American artists in the Rubell Family …
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An Eye For Art – Learning to View and Appreciate Art Here is a checklist with some key components for An Eye For Art. . Describe the Work of Art. …
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Spotlight Video for 28th Annual Philadelphia International Art Expo October, 11, 12 and 13, 2013 7165 Germantown Ave. Philadelphia, PA 19119
Published on Nov 2, 2012 Larry and Brenda Thompson have amassed a remarkable collection of art by African Americans from around the nation. In 2009, the David C. Driskell Center …
A portrait of Queen Elizabeth II was defaced with spray paint Thursday at London’s Westminster Abbey, and police arrested a man at the church on suspicion of vandalism. Fathers 4 …
In honor of Gustave Courbet’s birthday, we are revisiting a post originally published last year honoring the artist’s life and work. We can think of few artists who embody the …
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Willi Sitte, one of East Germany’s most eminent artists and a key representative of Communism’s preferred socialist realism painting style, has died at 92. The head of the Willi Sitte …
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The city of Lodz in Poland is promoting the work of street artists from around the world as a way of creating a cultural re-invigoration of this city whose population …
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