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by VICTORIA L. VALENTINE on Jan 25, 2016 • 2:10 pm THE 2016 AUCTION SEASON is gearing up in early February when the major houses in New York are holding their first modern and contemporary art sales of the year. Although art by African American and African diasporic artists represents a nominal share of the lots offered (if they are …
“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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Michael van Rensburg THE most successful art investors are profit driven, numbers savvy, and always on the lookout for opportunities. Futuregrowth portfolio manager Michael van Rensburg has been investing in art for almost 20 years. “Ever since I was a young school boy, I’ve been spotting opportunities to buy and sell things to make a …
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 …
ABOUT THE ARTIST- Americans became familiar with the art of Ernie Barnes via the television show “Good Times,” and his appointment as the Official Artist of the XXIII Olympiad at Los Angeles. But his work gained critical acclaim and collector strength through Manhattan’s prestigious Grand Central Art Galleries. Today, he continues to be one of …
OUT STOCK Everybody Say Amen by Andrew Turner Small Print Small Print – Offset Print – Open Edition Size 6″ x 8″ Framed Andrew Turner was born in l944 in Chester, Pennsylvania. He was a graduate of Temple University’s Tyler School of Art. Andrew’s work has been widely acclaimed, with many solo exhibitions and participation …
by Jessica Kramer Conference Producer, The Conference Forum Kara Walker is no stranger to controversy. On Thursday, March 7, 2013, the African-American visual artist addressed a room of more than 100 people in New Jersey’s Newark Public Library to talk about her work and its most recent firestorm. Walker, perhaps best known for her murals …
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by Mabi Conti Why is the division between Africans and African Americans? “You can bend a knee, but not a heart” Why is the division between Africans and African Americans? Why do we talk at each other instead of talking to each other? Why is it that most African men barely have African American males …
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Lynde Washington was born July 2, 1977, in Washington D.C. As a child he had two things in his hands, a paintbrush in one and a football in the other. Washington was introduced to the world of art and football from two of the most influential people in his life, his great- grandfather and his father. His great-grandfather, Lynnwood …
Variety of mediums on display for Prince George’s County exhibit by Cara Hedgepeth Staff writer “I am very excited for this exhibit,” said Washington, D.C. resident Gloria Kirk. “It will be a feast for my eyes, a pleasure for my heart and a lesson for my brain.” Kirk has been a member of The Black …
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ArtfixDaily.com) The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will present the exhibition “Face Jugs: Art and Ritual in 19th-Century South Carolina” May 4 to July 7, 2013. This exhibition draws from the collections of face vessels from the Edgefield District of South Carolina and is organized by the Milwaukee Art Museum and …
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Al Loving, an innovative abstract artist whose work evolved from geometric paintings to colorful collages and murals, has died. He was 69. Loving died June 21 in New York’s Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of lung cancer. The artist burst onto the abstract art scene as vibrantly as one of his paintings in 1969, when he …
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COLUMBIA, SC – The Columbia Museum of Art membership affiliate group, Friends of African-American Art and Culture (FAAAC) celebrates its first anniversary at an annual meeting on Tuesday, March 12 at 5:30 p.m. The meeting is open to everyone and features speaker Dr. Terry K. Hunter, an artist and educator from Orangeburg, SC. $5 or free …
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February 3 – April 28, 2013 On Loan from the Auburn Avenue Research Library This exhibition documents and pays homage to an incredible achievement – the survival of kinship ties and family pride among black people through the horrific experience of slavery. Up until 1978 when the project that collected these photographs was launched, there …
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Dodai Stewart Numéro magazine has issued an apology of sorts for the African Queen editorial in the March 2013 issue, in which Ondria Hardin, a 16-year-old, blond-haired, blue-eyed model, was shot with her skin darkened. But the magazine’s message — and a message from the photographer himself — only further complicate the issue. The Huffington …
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