With his first major contemporary acquisition, the Detroit Institute of Arts’ new director is reinvigorating the museum.
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Kerry James Marshall: Mastry exhibition review – a sumptuous symphony in black
This retrospective is a stone-cold stunner which proudly insists on the place of African Americans in the American artistic imagination, using the tropes of exclusionary imagery to new, more moral ends.
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Mahershala Ali? You’ve Surely Seen His Face
Over breakfast one Sunday this month, the actor Mahershala Ali ordered a healthy egg-white omelet, studiously avoiding a basket of complimentary, carb-loaded pastries.
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Review: ‘Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise,’ a Life Well Lived
“Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise” covers so much ground that it’s usually easy to forgive the filmmakers for not digging deeper. This is a documentary interested in breadth rather than depth, and on those terms it succeeds.
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African-American Museum Cafe Serves Up Black History With Every Forkful
The restaurant inside the new National Museum of African American History and Culture offers food that satisfies the hunger — and a space that satisfies the mind.
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Oh, the humanity: Jacob Lawrence’s ‘Migration Series,’ reunited
Jacob Lawrence’s “Migration Series,” unfolding across 60 painted panels each less than a foot square, is often compared to a film.
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An artist refashions the past: Whitfield Lovell’s ‘Kin’
Whitfield Lovell’s work is not about the African American experience; it is about his own.
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Making art fun to learn
Photographer and printmaker Michael B. Platt adopted an informal approach to teaching art.
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Thelma Johnson Streat’s mural to be displayed at Smithsonian African-American museum
Work by a renowned Yakima-born artist — the late Thelma Johnson Streat — again has taken center stage, this time at the new National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.
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Where My Girls At?: 28+ Opportunities to See and Support the Work of Black Female Artists and Curators This Fall
IT WAS A GREAT DAY IN HARLEM, a celebration of two important women in art—Alma Thomas (1891-1978) and Thelma Golden. The artist and the director of the Studio Museum in Harlem were both born Sept. 22. Thomas would have been 125. To mark the milestone, the Studio Museum, which is currently presenting an exhibition of Thomas’s paintings and drawings, had a birthday party. The special breakfast and exhibition viewing was hosted by Golden.
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