This Was Something We Shared (For Vernessia), 2011 by Shinique Smith

My earliest memories of looking at art, seriously and intently, come from when I was a child growing up in Baltimore. I spent hours staring at reproductions of Romare Bearden’s work that my grandmother had on her walls. She loved him and we would make special trips to the Baltimore Museum of Art to “see the Beardens.” She would talk about his work and say his name with a certain deep tone and joyful inflection—I could feel that the images affected her deeply.

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Sudanese artist to go on show

 

 

 

 

 

SHARJAH: Under the patronage of His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah, Sharjah Art Museum will host “Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist” on view from March 20 through May 31, 2012.

The exhibition, organised by the Museum for African Art, New York, and guest curated by Salah M. Hassan, Cornell University, NY, will coincide with another touring exhibition from the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), titled “Owen Jones: Islamic design, Discovery and Vision,” that will be held at the Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation from March 21-July 15.

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