I love a book where you come away with new knowledge of someone or something you had absolutely no idea existed. In I, Matthew Henson: Polar Explorer, I learned about Matthew Henson who, together with Robert Peary, became the first men to reach the N ...
Posted Monday, June 15th 2009 at 3:22PM
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Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso, also known as Pablo Picasso, is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He was a Spanish painter, drau ...
Posted Monday, June 15th 2009 at 2:46PM
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As a member of the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE), Elyn Zimmerman is seeking to promote a strong relationship between Washington and Africa through contemporary art.Zimmerman played a pivotal role during the construction of the US Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania afte ...
Posted Friday, June 12th 2009 at 3:42PM
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You may already have a number of reasons for choosing contemporary African art. But if youre unfamiliar with this type of work and want to know more, you will want to recognize several different techniques, colors, and styles that set this art apart ...
Posted Friday, June 12th 2009 at 3:32PM
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Our program in June will be an afternoon of "Super Show & Tell". Bring your work -- what you're working now on or something you've recently completed. We'll take time to ooooh and ahhhh and hear some of the details about the materials you used and wh ...
Posted Friday, June 12th 2009 at 3:25PM
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Louisiana's Henry Turner Jr. & Flavor are amongst the featured acts at next weekend's Jazz Festival.
Next weekend, Arcosanti will host the Prescott Jazz Society’s 11th annual Juneteenth Jazz Festival, commemorating the end of slavery in the United ...
Posted Thursday, June 11th 2009 at 5:24PM
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For one hot weekend in June, you can celebrate the coming of a new year in the traditional Yoruba way of Nigeria, West Africa. And you don’t have to travel that far! Taking place in the Graduate Hospital neighborhood of Philly is the ever-exciting ...
Posted Thursday, June 11th 2009 at 5:17PM
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Talented artisans, vendors and musicians come together when the revitalized Lake Meadows Art Fair celebrates its fifth anniversary June 20–21 in Lake Meadows Shopping Center, 35th and King Dr. This free, fun-filled family-oriented event is organize ...
Posted Thursday, June 11th 2009 at 5:12PM
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NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - The Cuban art market is showing signs of vitality as the economic recession weakens demand for works from elsewhere in Latin America, collectors said.
A Cuban painting was the top seller in May's Latin American art auctions in New York. American collectors of Asian ...
Posted Thursday, June 11th 2009 at 5:02PM
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With a cartoonist's colorful flair and a cutting irony, Robert Colescott created a world filled with inverted stereotypes that challenged long-held conventions about race, sexuality and even art itself.
In massive paintings, the Tucson resident and ...
Posted Thursday, June 11th 2009 at 4:58PM
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TUSCON, Ariz.—Prominent African-American painter Robert Colescott died on June 4 at his home in Tuscon at the age of 83, the New York Times reports. Colescott, who had battled Parkinsonian syndrome for many years, is best known for his paintings ex ...
Posted Wednesday, June 10th 2009 at 3:21PM
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Kofi Tyus could never find a Mother's Day card with which he was truly satisfied. So one day, more than 30 years ago, he had the idea to create his own Mother's Day card. Armed with a degree from Howard University's art program and his passion for art, Tyus realized that there was a whole group ...
Posted Tuesday, June 9th 2009 at 3:37PM
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Life Magazine Photographer Howard Bingham and NASCAR’s First Black Competitor Derek Strong
Target Sundays@CAAM producer and actor Jeffrey Anderson-Gunter will team with musician and actor Art Evans in hosting a full program of activities during t ...
Posted Tuesday, June 9th 2009 at 3:29PM
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So, your guy Saturday JackBauerstein went to Day 1 of the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art Festival in New York City yesterday and let me tell you, the event was pretty amazing.
Now for this year’s event, MoCCA had a location change. Once stationed at the Puck Building, the event had grown t ...
Posted Tuesday, June 9th 2009 at 3:22PM
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NEW YORK, June 8 (APP): A first-ever art festival showcasing the works of Muslim artists from 23 countries, including Pakistan, is underway here drawing large crowds of art lovers.
“Islam is in the air from President Barack Obama’s big speech ...
Posted Tuesday, June 9th 2009 at 3:05PM
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"I was trying to think of a name that would be real zingy," said Linda Vonderschmidt-LaStella, who came up with the name for the every Friday in June arts festival in the borough that starts Friday, June 5 with the unveiling of a 6-foot sculpture of ...
Posted Tuesday, June 9th 2009 at 2:53PM
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THE Rotary Club of Rosebank hopes to raise R100 000 for charity through the raffle of a painting donated by a well-known international artist.
An art exhibition is to be held at the centre court, in Hyde Park Shopping Centre, from 9 to 14 June. I ...
Posted Tuesday, June 9th 2009 at 1:46PM
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Burlington, Vermont - June 8, 2009
A new art exhibit lets you be in control of the show.
Burlington artist Clark Derbes transformed the Firehouse Gallery on Church Street with colorful pieces you can detach from the wall and reattach in other p ...
Posted Tuesday, June 9th 2009 at 1:38PM
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Obamacare poster contest: Coming to a hospital near you!
By Michelle Malkin • June 8, 2009 09:34 AM Okay, Army of Photoshoppers. Scott G. at Ah, Shoot is fighting the government takeover of the health care industry with all of his artistic power — and has issued a challenge for an Obamacar ...
Posted Monday, June 8th 2009 at 11:30PM
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Interviewer: Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel Part of the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Video Archive in the Duke University Libraries: http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollec...
Diamonstein interviews Bearden concerning his paintings and collages and the ...
Posted Sunday, March 1st 2009 at 3:25AM
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An empty classroom is the stage for this profound lecture on color theory, Gramsci, and the collage art of Romare Bearden.
Peep his pronounciation of "Romare". Row Mary Row!
Can't hate on this dude. He hung in there for the sake of art. A ...
Posted Sunday, March 1st 2009 at 3:21AM
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This is Part 2 of a 4-part series showing abstract paintings (acrylics on canvas) created by visual artist Eugene James Martin in 2002 in Lafayette, Louisiana (LA). Video clip montage by S. Fredericq.
"Shiny Stockings", Music by Frank Foster. Cou ...
Posted Sunday, March 1st 2009 at 3:14AM
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This is Part I of a 4-part series showing abstract paintings (acrylics on canvas) created by visual artist Eugene James Martin in 2003 in Lafayette, Louisiana (LA). Video clip montage by S. Fredericq.
"I let a song go out of my heart", Music by D ...
Posted Sunday, March 1st 2009 at 3:08AM
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This is Part I of a 2-part series showing abstract paintings (acrylics on canvas) created by visual artist Eugene James Martin in 1995 in Washington D.C. Video clip montage by S. Fredericq, filmed in Lafayette, Louisiana (LA).
"When I dream of yo ...
Posted Sunday, March 1st 2009 at 3:06AM
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This is Part I of a 4-part series showing mixed gouache, pen & ink and graphite oval drawings on paper created by visual artist Eugene James Martin in 1971 and 1972 in Washington D.C. Video clip montage by S. Fredericq, filmed in Lafayette, Louisiana ...
Posted Sunday, March 1st 2009 at 3:04AM
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