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One of Detroit’s most protean and recognizable artists, McGee remains active in his 80s. His works are on permanent display at the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, the Broadway Street People Mover Station and several hospitals. One of Kresge’s eminent artists, he makes paintings, sculptures and mixed-media …
“Tales Through Time: A Storytelling Event” will take place from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Gaston County Museum of Art & History. The free program, sponsored by a grant from the United Arts Council, will feature an afternoon of storytelling from distinguished storytellers, including Chief Donald Rodgers, Chief of the Catawba Indian Nation; …
Romare Bearden (1911-88) spent more than 30 years striving to be a great artist, and in the early 1960s, when he took up collage in earnest, he became one. A small exhibition at the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, organized to celebrate the centennial of Bearden’s birth, delivers this message with unusual clarity. It contains only 21 …
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When Debora Oden paints, she often listens to music by Erykah Badu or Ella Fitzgerald, finding creative inspiration that takes her own art to a higher level of expression. “Often, in my studio, I listen to the same albums over and over,” she said. “As I work, I lock myself into a familiar rhythm and …
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By ROGER CATLIN It’s the season of David C. Driskell in Connecticut museums. In New Haven, a student-chosen exhibit “Embodied: Black Identities in American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery,” which includes Driskell’s 2002 screenprint, “Dancing Angel,” continues through June 26 at the Yale gallery. It was curated by students from Yale and from …
By David Greisman The obvious, cliched route in starting off an article about a gallery exhibit featuring artwork and poetry alongside each other would be to begin with the familiar refrain of a picture being worth a thousand words. The obvious, cliched route is not always the right route to take. Artwork, on its own, …
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By Culturekiosque Staff NEW YORK, 27 MARCH 2011 — The American artist Romare Bearden’s oeuvre of more than 2,000 known works in many media reveals the diverse influences of earlier Western masters ranging from Duccio, Giotto, and de Hooch to Cézanne, Picasso, and Matisse, as well as his fascination with African art (particularly sculpture, masks, …
By Rodger Mullen Growing up, artist Kadir Nelson was not a big baseball fan. Considering that he has devoted much of his career to the sport, it’s a little ironic. “I’m still not a huge fan in that I don’t follow any particular team, although I do enjoy going to games,” said Nelson, 36. “I’m …
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by Katelyn Hackett Wilmington– The North Carolina Black Film Festival kicked off on Thursday night. People filed into the Cameron Art Museum for the free reception. In its tenth year the festival showcases dozens of short and feature-length narratives, documentaries and animation. Folks travel from all over the nation to attend. “The North Carolina Black …
By: Gabriella Osamor Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria presents a major part of the extraordinary corpus of ancient Ife art in terra-cotta, stone, and metal, dating from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries. Artists at Ife, the ancient city-state of the Yoruba people of West Africa (located in present-day southwestern Nigeria), created …
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by:Elsie McCabe Thompson NEW YORK, N.Y.- Elsie McCabe Thompson, president, the Museum for African Art, announced that the Museum has received a major contribution of $3 million from the Ford Foundation. The grant supports the final stage of construction of the Museum’s new building, which is located on Fifth Avenue at 110th Street and has …
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by Dr. Jeff Donaldson Dr. Jeff Donaldson, was a founding member of Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC) and African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists (AfriCobra). He was born December 15, 1932 in Pine Bluffs, Arkansas. He has studied at the University of Arkansas, where he received a B.A. degree in studio art. He later …
by Dr. Murry DePillars Dr. Murry N. DePillars was born in Chicago in 1938. He earned a B.A. in art education and an M.A. in urban studies from Roosevelt University and a Ph.D. in art education from Pennsylvania State University. His paintings and drawings are empowered by a rich intellect, a consciousness of his African …
by: Emmanuel Jegede This article is focused on some issues concerning contemporary art and its practitioners and art critics as it relates to Nigeria from 1950 to date. In any way the article may not be able to discuss in minute detail due to space constraint. At the same time the theoretical framework of the …
by George Hughes Museums and galleries all over the world regard traditional African art of high aesthetic value. A reputation ignited by the overwhelming influence African art had on modernist European artists at the beginning of the twentieth century. This impact and positive status of traditional African art has over decades resulted in laudable exhibitions, …