The first documentary to explore the role of photography in shaping the identity, aspirations, and social emergence of African Americans from slavery to the present, Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People probes the recesses of American history through images that have been suppressed, forgotten, and lost.
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How a historian turned artist discovered it’s never too late to start over | The Lily
Nell Painter went back to school at 64.
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With New Urgency, Museums Cultivate Curators of Color | The New York Times
For decades the country’s mainstream art museums have excluded people of color — from their top leadership to the curators who create shows to the artists they display on their walls.
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The pioneering prints of Dox Thrash | CBS New
Dox Thrash revolutionized printmaking in the 1930s.
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The Philosopher Who Believed That Art Was Key to Black Liberation | The New York Times
THE NEW NEGRO The Life of Alain Locke By Jeffrey C. Stewart 932 pp. Oxford University Press. $39.95. Alain LeRoy Locke’s drive to revolutionize black culture was fueled in no small part by his sense of self-importance. “When a man has something to be conceited over,” he wrote, “I call it self-respect.” Unlike many of […]
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Yasiin Bey, Formerly Known as Mos Def, Is Opening a Gallery in the South Bronx to Fuse Art and Hip-Hop | artnet News
The project is a collaboration with advertising executive Free Richardson
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Essence and Queen Latifah Unveil $20 Million Fund for Artists of Color | Colorlines
The Essence Creators and Makers Fund will support artists who make content for women of color.
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Charleston’s African American Museum gets new curator from Chicago History Museum | The Post & Courier
“Filling the spaces in a museum starts with stories, even before the artifacts and objects…”
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Jazz Notes: Vision Fest, Mickey Bass, children’s jazz book | New York Amsterdam News
Little Theodore and Hazel, with instruments in hand (trumpet and harp), were off to the park to play when suddenly they ran into a sad bird that needed help.
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Why Have There Been No Great Black Art Dealers? | The New York Times
How a small but influential group of black gallerists is correcting history.
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