Faces too symmetrical, clothes perfectly ironed, trees with not a leaf out of place, there’s something unsettling about Dutch photographer Ruud van Empel’s work. It sits uncomfortably on the line between reality and fantasy; leaving the viewer full of questions. Who are these children? Where are they? Why is their gaze so blank?
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Little-known ‘Colored Girls Museum’ open in Germantown – Chestnut Hill Local
The Colored Girls Museum, 4613 Newhall St. in Germantown, helps to redress the frequent disregard of black women’s lives and labor.
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Imagining the Portraits of African American Women Erased from History – Hyperallergic
In The Evanesced at the California African American Museum, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle confronts society’s compulsion to reframe, mitigate, or eliminate the role of black women in the US.
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Contact High: Jamel Shabazz On Shooting The Subway – Mass Appeal
“Every squeeze of the shutter release had to be on point.”
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Painter Barkley L. Hendricks Dies at 72 – Hyperallergic
The artist, best known for his bold portraits of Black people, passed away early this morning.
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From Books by Black Women to Electricians’ Stories, a Show Catalogues Alternative Archives – Hyperallergic
An exhibition at Nurture Art features evolving collections of art and testimony from people too often left out of official histories.
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The ‘We Love You’ Project Embraces Black Men – The Root
Frustrated by the recent deaths of black men at the hands of the police, Washington, D.C.-based photographer Bryon Summers felt the need to do something to change the image of black men.
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Grappling with Racism Past and Present in Segregated Cleveland – Hyperallergic
Exhibitions by Imani Roach, Soda_Jerk, and Anthony Warnick at SPACES gallery explore American racial prejudice across different periods of time.
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200 years of groundbreaking African American art – in pictures – The Guardian
From Henry Ossawa Tanner, the first African American painter to move to Paris and be accepted into the Salon, to superstars of today like Kara Walker, here’s how generations of artists have tackled race, identity and prejudice.
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Artist Shanequa Gay brings inspiring black experiences to canvas in new exhibition – The Undefeated
‘Fair Is Foul and Foul Ain’t Fair’ opens at Wofford College in honor of Women’s History Month
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