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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 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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Price: $545 The Book Itself Not Digital. This book is currently out of print. We have only a few left. Soft cover only. Book Description: 502 Page Coffee Table Art Book This book is a written account of what October Gallery (OG) means to us. We attempted to unfold the saga of how OG evolved …
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 …
Born in the late 40’s in Akron, Ohio, Woodrow Nash is the product of sanctified churches, 1950’s television images, and black inner city neighborhood schools run by predominantly white middle-class educators. The young student immersed himself in art during an era when artists sought nothing less than old-fashioned honesty in their imagery. As a freelance artist, …
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 …
DETROIT, MI – Where were you during the summer of 1962? ‘…The Friends of African and African Art (originally-African Art Gallery Committee) formed a committee to acquire art to establish a new gallery dedicated to the traditional art of Africa. This is one of the oldest auxiliary groups at the DIA. Its mission is to …
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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 at the University of Maryland organized this exhibition from the Thompsons’ collection. In 2011, it helped open the remodeled and expanded Georgia Museum of Art, …
By OWN Life in New Orleans is rough. Eighteen-year-old John McDonogh High School student Allen Lefort ended up homeless after a series of struggles — his father’s overdose and his brother’s death among them. In this clip from the season finale of “Blackboard Wars,” Lefort, after a suicide attempt and an intervention from school principal …
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By SAM MELLINGER The Kansas City Star The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum has done so many things. Seen so much. They have been hosts to presidents. They have welcomed Hall of Famers. They’ve received checks from baseball stars (though not enough of them), they’ve thrown black-tie galas, and they’ve sung along with The Temptations. They …
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By BETH J. HARPAZ NEW YORK — With the movie “42” bringing the Jackie Robinson story to a new generation, fans young and old may be inspired to visit some of the places in Brooklyn connected to the African-American athlete who integrated Major League Baseball when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. In Coney …
Christopher Lamb Professor of Journalism, University of Indiana-Indianapolis When Jackie Robinson took the field for the first time in a Brooklyn Dodgers uniform, he shattered baseball’s color barrier. But more than that, he confronted racial discrimination in America, giving millions of blacks hope for equality not only in sports but in jobs, housing and education. …
By KEN JOHNSON There is a paradox at the heart of “Now Dig This! Art & Black Los Angeles 1960-1980,” an exhibition at MoMA PS1 about black artists who lived and worked in Los Angeles during a time of revolutionary changes in art and society. It is not specifically addressed by the exhibition, which was organized …
A shot of Grande Madre di Dio in Torino, Italy.
You probably shouldn’t try this in your local trains. Such pictures are unforgettable.