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Philly Mural Project ‘Portraits of Justice’ Confronts Mass Incarceration | Colorlines
Formerly incarcerated artists working with Mural Arts Philadelphia created a new art installation in defiance of former mayor and police chief Frank Rizzo’s history of violence in the city.
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In the Cradle of Hip-Hop, a South Bronx Gallery Bridges a Gap | The New York Times
“No galleries, to me, have accepted hip-hop to be a part of their DNA.”
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Digitally Altered Portraits Superimposed with Flowers, Antique Patterns, and Wildlife Illustrations by Tawny Chatmon | Colossal
Kate Sierzputowski Colossal Tawny Chatmon. Featured Image [dropcap]Maryland[/dropcap]-based artist Tawny Chatmon combines traditional portraiture with digital collage, layering elements of antique patterns, vintage botanicals, and wildlife illustrations onto images of her children and other relatives. Once printed, Chatmon often revisits the digital textures she has superimposed, physically adding layers of gold ornamental elements or paint. […]
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Record Kerry James Marshall ‘Study’ tops Sotheby’s $31 million Contemporary Curated auction in New York | ArtDaily.org
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s Contemporary Curated auction concluded last night in New York with a total of $31 million – the highest-ever total for the auction series since it was introduced at Sotheby’s in 2013.
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The Color Line | Baltimore Magazine
Black artists are finally receiving recognition in the mainstream art world, but it has been a long uphill battle toward equity, and it’s one that they’re still fighting.
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Thomas Allen Harris Goes Through a Lens Darkly | PBS.Org
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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