You MUST see this video to fully appreciate the scale of this magnificent artist's work. Appreciate on... ...
Posted Sunday, March 1st 2009 at 2:22AM
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Recognize - Hip-Hop at the National Portrait Gallery
The first ever hip-hop art exhibit at the Smithsonian. Artists include Kehinde Wiley, David Schienbaum, and Nikki Giovanni. ...
Posted Sunday, March 1st 2009 at 2:14AM
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Footage from the opening reception of Kehinde Wiley exhibtion "Rumors of War" at Deitch Projects, NYC, 2005.
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Posted Sunday, March 1st 2009 at 2:07AM
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Here's Kehinde Wiley a rising superstar (BIG TYME!). Part of this segment was filmed here in Columbus, Ohio. As a subject for the painting he did of a local kid, Kehinde chose to paint a young friend of the family - DaShaun. Peep game.
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Posted Sunday, March 1st 2009 at 1:55AM
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here's kehinde Wiley whose work many of you will recognize from The Infiniti Car Commercials - or Internet banners that used to pop up like crazy and make me mad as hell...i digress). Here's a rising star! ...
Posted Sunday, March 1st 2009 at 1:47AM
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One of the most down to earth cats I've worked with. Justin Bua is the painter of THE DJ, THE GUITARISTA, and so many more. The gritty urban artist just released his arty biography THE BEAT OF URBAN ART and our friends at YO!TV caught up with him to ...
Posted Sunday, March 1st 2009 at 1:41AM
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Aesthetics serve as a forum for social, political and historical representation. Adinkra sysbols are symbols used on African meterial for clothing. The symbols denotes character of people and their personalities. In this short film, the juxtaposion o ...
Posted Sunday, March 1st 2009 at 1:34AM
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This is a short film on the work of Mark Steven Greenfield, an artist of African descent who re-appropriates images of minstrelsy and blackface in his work. His work serves as healing art for people of African descent.
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Posted Sunday, March 1st 2009 at 1:33AM
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This project interrogates the interrelationships between the functional and ideological similarities between the Black Art aesthetic and the Conceptualization of Black Power doing the 70's. More than a mere production of visual symbology or pictorial ...
Posted Sunday, March 1st 2009 at 1:27AM
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Someone you should know. A short film on artist Eldzier Cortor and his works. Created for an Art History course with Professor Phyllis Jackson at Pomona College. ...
Posted Sunday, March 1st 2009 at 1:25AM
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Here's a video done by student ikeisha daniels for her black aesthetic class about the work of black art and black artist in terms of changing the (re)presentations of black people and blackness.
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Posted Sunday, March 1st 2009 at 1:22AM
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Put the black glove on...
This piece shows how African American artwork has used the black male body to embody resistance, strength, and pride within the black community. This movie is a positive discourse to African American Art because it focuse ...
Posted Sunday, March 1st 2009 at 1:19AM
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*The American flag serves as a very effective symbol of Americana. It encompasses all facets of American life from the social to the political, and is an exemplary tool for the Black artists commentary on Blackness within America. Simultaneously, it ...
Posted Sunday, March 1st 2009 at 1:12AM
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Here's Steve Wiltshire a savant living in Europe. His ability to draw using his memory is un-paralleled! A must see...
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Posted Sunday, March 1st 2009 at 12:59AM
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This is a different interview about the same book and illustrations from Kadir Nelson's "We Are the Ship". Peep game! ...
Posted Sunday, March 1st 2009 at 12:53AM
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For aspiring authors. Peep Game: Here's Kadir Nelson's trailer for his book entitled: "Change has Come" Let us know what u think of this one. ...
Posted Sunday, March 1st 2009 at 12:50AM
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Her's author and artist and his tribute to the Negro Baseball Leahue, which existed until 1947. Enjoy. ...
Posted Sunday, March 1st 2009 at 12:46AM
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Well, Suh, after I finally, finally received my books and selected a book distributor, I was faced with a very difficult question: When do I want to relase the book?
What? When do i want to release the book? That translates into which day will ...
Posted Saturday, February 28th 2009 at 7:48AM
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