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In segregated, wartime America, making art against the odds
In the early 1940s, a young man named John Biggers enrolled at Hampton Institute, a black college near Norfolk, at the same time that Viktor Lowenfeld, a painter and art scholar who had fled Nazi...
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Huge Street Art Murals Transform City Of Lodz In Poland
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 is three quarters of a million....
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Willi Sitte Dead: East German Artist Dies At 92
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 Foundation,...
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Gustave Courbet Birthday: Rebellious French Painter Turns 194
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 spirit of unbridled...
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Queen Portrait Defaced: Westminster Abbey Painting By Ralph Heimans Has Been...
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 Justice, a protest...
View ArticleTradition Redefined: The Larry and Brenda Thompson Collection of African...
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...
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Clifton Davis Showcase @ 7165 Lounge
Every Friday With Doug Henderson WDAS Radio Next Baby Boomers Party Friday, August 2, 5 to 10 PM Free – Spaghetti with Salad with your reservation & ticket. Free Admission. NOTE: Free Dinner is...
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Philly Art Expo 2013
Spotlight Video for 28th Annual Philadelphia International Art Expo October, 11, 12 and 13, 2013 7165 Germantown Ave. Philadelphia, PA 19119
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An Eye For Art – Learning to View and Appreciate Art
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. Try to determine what you see. Is this a portrait,...
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Andrew Turner Passion for Life
Andrew Turner by October Gallery Staff Inspired by art history’s masters, Andrew Turner painted the African American experience in a style that embraced the embolden, thick brushstrokes of...
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African American Art to be featured in county building
Special to the Daily Record 9:50 a.m. EST January 22, 2016 Morris Arts and Art in the Atrium are sponsoring an exhibition of African American art that will be featured in the Morris County...
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Spike Lee Lauds Academy Changes, Still Plans To Skip Oscars
ANGELA WEISS VIA GETTY IMAGES Lee said he would skip the Academy Awards and go to the Knicks game instead. Lee praised Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs and the organization’s board of governors...
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HBO Ordered a Black Lives Matter Documentary After Seeing This Year’s Oscar...
Image via Fibonacci Blue BY TRACE WILLIAM COWEN I’d be happy to waste more of your time here: @TraceCowen As harrowing instances of racially charged police brutality continue to plague the nation,...
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DuSable Museum of African American History Names Chief Curator
CHICAGO, Jan. 22, 2016 /PRNewswire/ – The DuSable Museum of African American History has a new chief curator – Leslie Guy, an arts consultant and curator of collections and exhibits for museums and...
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Cheadle’s ‘Ahead’ captures Miles Davis’ spirit
Cheadle, pictured on the Cincinnati set of ‘Miles Ahead’ in July 2014. The Miles Davis film is planned for release by Sony Pictures Classics next year. (Photo: Madison Schmidt, AP) Patrick Ryan, USA...
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Travel To Salvador de Bahia
Salvador, also known as São Salvador,Salvador de Bahia, and Salvador da Bahia (Brazilian Portuguese: [sawvaˈdoʁ da baˈi.ɐ]), is the capital of the Brazilian state of Bahia. With 2.9 million people...
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Stop Giving New York Transplants All The Credit For Detroit’s Art Scene
Move from Brooklyn to Detroit for the cheap rent: get applause. Spend years building your hometown’s arts community: get ignored. Kate Abbey-Lambertz National Reporter, The Huffington Post CARLOS...
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Why 2015 was One of the Most Outstanding Years of Anticipated, Appreciated...
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...
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Modern African-American art gets the spotlight
“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....
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