If a marauding spacecraft were to visit Manhattan in the next four days and beam up the former Dia Art Foundation headquarters in Chelsea, a large chunk of the world’s nonprofit art spaces would disappear too.
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Posted Monday, June 29th 2009 at 4:38PM
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RICHMOND, VA : A powerful Eighteenth or Nineteenth Century ivory figure of a woman carved in the round by a South Indian or Sri Lankan artist has been acquired by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA).
Also added to the collection by the museum's trustees are a 2005 watercolor by American ...
Posted Wednesday, June 24th 2009 at 5:29PM
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Although Henry Ossawa Tanner rose to prominence as the first great African-American artist, in the minds of many of his contemporaries, he always remained exactly that—an “African-American” artist and not just an artist. Born June 21, 1859, Tanner painted to escape from the prejudices of his ti ...
Posted Wednesday, June 24th 2009 at 5:24PM
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The first Historic West Main Street Art Festival showcased local artists Saturday along the 1600 and 1700 blocks of West Main Street.
“Ultimately, we wanted to bring people down to West Main Street,” said Nebraska Neighborhood Association president Chris Shatto, “and to be able to show local ...
Posted Tuesday, June 23rd 2009 at 3:59PM
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The Baltimore Choral Arts Society's 2009-2010 season will sample various musical styles, from a classically proportioned Schubert Mass to the premiere of a gospel-influenced work by African-American composer Rosephanye Dunn Powell.
Popular American songs will be showcased in the season-opener ...
Posted Tuesday, June 23rd 2009 at 3:44PM
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It's an unusual name for an art show. Eschatology is a branch of religious study that deals with endings in general and the Last Judgment in particular. Local artist John Barnes felt it was an appropriate term to use for his current crop of wooden sculptures inspired by old shotgun houses that ...
Posted Monday, June 22nd 2009 at 11:14PM
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Last winter, a South Carver boy named Josh Fenton won a national art contest that was created to allow people with epilepsy to show off their talent. His award-winning piece he titled “Growing Out of Epilepsy” was lauded for its color, creativity and heart-felt depiction of how Josh copes with ...
Posted Monday, June 22nd 2009 at 10:56PM
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SEGUIN — An artist can draw inspiration from many places.
Local painter Crestino Chapa likes to think back to times during his early childhood when he would watch his father draw, which led to the urge to put brush to canvas and let his own creativity take over.
“Ever since I was a little ...
Posted Monday, June 22nd 2009 at 6:27PM
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IT’S hard to believe that only nine months ago art dealers everywhere were still dreaming up plans for vast multinational expansions. Since September, however, the contemporary art market has careened from boom to bust. Nowhere has that reversal of fortune been more sharply felt than in New Yor ...
Posted Monday, June 22nd 2009 at 6:11PM
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Dean Mitchell was always drawing pictures. He sold his paintings and drawings as a youngster, professionally since he was 23.
Now 52, he won the top prize at the Southern Watercolor Society’s members exhibit in Columbus on June 6.
“I sold works to people when I was in junior high for 50 bucks ...
Posted Monday, June 22nd 2009 at 6:02PM
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As I reflect back on the Nineteenth of June, I wanted to acknowledge some hero's of the African American comunity.
Tubman, Harriet, c.1820–1913, American abolitionist, b. Dorchester co., Md. Born into slavery, she escaped to Phildelphia in 1849, and subsequently became one of the most succe ...
Posted Monday, June 22nd 2009 at 5:50PM
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ATLANTA, GA.- This summer the Atlanta Botanical Garden and the High Museum of Art have joined together for a special “Moore & Monet” joint discounted-admission offer to “Moore in America: The Monumental Sculpture of Henry Moore” at the Garden and “Monet Water Lilies” at the High. The joint tick ...
Posted Thursday, June 18th 2009 at 11:38PM
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From the glass jewel box facing south and east in the new wing of the Cleveland Museum of Art, you can see a couple of the region's major architectural projects. To the east, through the trees, there's Frank Gehry's vision of curled stainless ribbons ...
Posted Thursday, June 18th 2009 at 11:28PM
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See the works of more than fifty African-American artists from the late 1800s to the early years of this century. Drawn from one of the most esteemed private collections of works by African-American artists, this special exhibition features over nine ...
Posted Thursday, June 18th 2009 at 11:22PM
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NATCHEZ — John and Pam Finley did not lose a home to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, but many of their possessions did.
The Finleys were housing a collection of West African and African-American folk art in the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum in Biloxi when the ...
Posted Thursday, June 18th 2009 at 2:15PM
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William Hemmerling, 66, whose portraits and paintings of African American life attracted admirers around the country, died Monday at his Ponchatoula, La., home after a two-year battle with cancer.
A self-taught folk artist, Mr. Hemmerling often use ...
Posted Thursday, June 18th 2009 at 2:10PM
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100 Black Men of America, Inc. is a national alliance of men of business, public affairs and government with a mission to improve the quality of life for African American youth.
ATLANTA, June 17, 2009 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/TodaysDrum ...
Posted Thursday, June 18th 2009 at 2:05PM
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A boomtown like this and Atlanta doesn't have one iconic piece of public art —- the stuff of postcards, snapshots and shore-to-shore recognition. Maybe it never will.
But for a handful of the city's neighborhoods, the story may be about to chang ...
Posted Thursday, June 18th 2009 at 1:55PM
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A colored-pencil drawing by Brent Malskeit, 9, is the local winner of the 2009 RAGBRAI Kids Art Contest.
The artwork by the fourth grader at Lewis Central Titan Hill will be on display in the Council Bluffs Public Library until mid-July, along wit ...
Posted Tuesday, June 16th 2009 at 3:23PM
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Life in America is very different today than it was back on June 19, 1865, the day Maj.Gen. Gordon Granger landed at Galveston, Texas, with news that the Civil War had ended and the enslaved were now free.
Proving the American dream is very real, ...
Posted Tuesday, June 16th 2009 at 2:21PM
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Penny-pinching doesn’t have to be dull. No matter your fancy, there’s plenty to do in metro Atlanta —- without spending a dime. This is just a sampling of a free week of entertainment:
Mondays: Check out Acoustic Mondays at The Five Spot in ...
Posted Tuesday, June 16th 2009 at 2:18PM
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"1600" was created for a faculty show in March at the Art Institute of Charlotte. I needed to create something new, because just a month ago, The Black Male Image- Reworked series was displayed. So of course I could not show something that everyone h ...
Posted Monday, June 15th 2009 at 11:08PM
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African American artist skewered stereotypes with wit and explosive style
Robert Colescott in 1997, shortly before the Venice Biennale. The painting is “Ode to Joy (European Anthem).”
Best known for reworking masterpieces of European and Ameri ...
Posted Monday, June 15th 2009 at 10:53PM
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Since the 1960s, the Rastafarian way of life has provided the cultural
depth that makes reggae unlike any other popular music. Rastafarians
have expressed their adherence to a disciplined diet, allegiance to an
African homeland and especially ...
Posted Monday, June 15th 2009 at 3:52PM
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