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James Augustus Van Der Zee — Harlem Renaissance Historian

Ronald Bunn — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:51:41 +0000

James Augustus Van Der Zee was pioneering African-American photographer who made significant contributions to the art world during the Harlem Renaissance. Born on June 29

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February 4: Augusta Savage

Ronald Bunn — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 13:06:10 +0000

A Daily Journey Through History Month The Sculptor Who Lifted Every Voice Story In 1939, Augusta Savage created The Harp, a monumental sculpture for the

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February 1: Jacob Lawrence

Ronald Bunn — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 15:47:00 +0000

A Daily Journey Through Black History Month “The Migration Series”: Chronicling a People’s Journey Story Jacob Lawrence was one of the most celebrated painters of

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✨ Sneak Peek Alert! ✨— Jacob Lawrence

Ronald Bunn — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 13:36:35 +0000

Kicking off February 1 with the legendary Jacob Lawrence, a master storyteller of the Harlem Renaissance. Did you know his iconic Migration Series brought the struggles

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Pioneers of Style/ Influential African-American Icons in Art and Fashion

Ronald Bunn — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 16:43:13 +0000

In the vibrant tapestry of visual culture, African-American icons — artists, designers, and fashion trendsetters — have profoundly influenced and reshaped the landscape of art

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Honoring Black Legacy: Park Avenue Armory and The Met’s Cultural Showcases

Souleo — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 13:22:23 +0000

Two of New York City’s premier institutions, Park Avenue Armory and The Metropolitan Museum of Art are honoring the Black legacy through a series of

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A Cultural Confluence: African-American Literature in Europe |1992-41

Barbara B. Lewis — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 12:57:54 +0000

The Fabres’ Initiative: “The initial step was ours. We created the occasion,” Genevieve Fabre told me last month in Paris on the campus of the

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Talk at the 2024 Gala at The Shed and special events

Souleo — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 13:10:04 +0000

The month of November was full of galas and special events. Check out the talk about transgender parenthood at the 2024 Gala at Shed, a

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Ellis Haizlip — a pioneering television producer

Ronald Bunn — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 11:02:31 +0000

Early Life and Vision Ellis Haizlip was a pioneering television producer and host, renowned for his groundbreaking work in promoting African-American culture through the medium

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“Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies”

Ellen Levitt — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 11:53:55 +0000

The Brooklyn Museum is showing a wonderful retrospective “Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies” by the late African-American/Mexican artist Elizabeth

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Raven Chanticleer and the Harlem African-American Wax Museum

Ronald Bunn — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 14:57:23 +0000

This article has two parts: Part I is my reminiscence of visiting the Harlem African-American Wax Museum, and, my experience meeting Raven Chanticleer. Before visiting

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Camille Billops: Sculptor, Filmmaker, Printmaker, Educator

Ronald Bunn — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 09:39:15 +0000

Camille Billops was a multifaceted African-American artist whose contributions to sculpture, filmmaking, archiving, printmaking and education have left an endurable mark on contemporary art and

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The vibrant “Harlem Renaissance” collection at the Met ★ ★ ★ ★

Robert Toomer, Jr. — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 08:36:10 +0000

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism” collection is treasure trove of artistic and cultural significance. Highlights of this exhibition showcase a

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The Harlem Renaissance — Masterfully Curated at The Met

Lisa DuBois & Ademola Olugebefola — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 07:58:49 +0000

Ademola Olugebefola and I recently entered the ornate and cavernous lobby of the famed “Metropolitan Museum of Art” eager to check out the latest conversational

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Ernest Crichlow, an American Artist

Ronald Bunn — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 07:28:38 +0000

Ernest Crichlow was a prominent American social realist artist known for his powerful and thought-provoking works that captured the struggles and triumphs of African Americans.

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Visual History of Black Creative Spaces by Alex Harsley

Ellen Levitt — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 06:05:58 +0000

“From the Victoria to the Village: Alex Harsley’s Visual History of Black Creative Spaces” This retrospective by Alex Harsley features portraits of famous Black Americans

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Visual Narratives: The Influence of Faith Ringgold

Ellen Levitt — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 05:40:38 +0000

Let us pay homage to the recently passed Faith Ringgold, a remarkable and distinctly American, Black and female artist. Ringgold died on April 12, 2024

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Kwame Brathwaite’s NYC “Black Is Beautiful” Moments

Ellen Levitt — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 09:52:56 +0000

Sometimes the smaller exhibitions in an art or history museum will bowl you over with their power. Individual pieces and groups of pieces will captivate

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The Late Virgil Abloh Contemporary Cultural Exhibition

Ellen Levitt — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 14:30:27 +0000

One expression that has always irked me is “Only the good die young.” It is meant to comfort, to assuage the pain after the passing

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Black Dolls Reflecting an Array of Cultural Ideas

Ellen Levitt — Tue, 24 May 2022 11:29:51 +0000

Dolls may not seem like the most obvious items to exhibit at a world-class museum that showcases arts and culture. Yet, given deeper examination through

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Comic Books, Cartooning, AfroFuturism and Women Cartoonists

Ellen Levitt — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 15:18:10 +0000

Many of us regularly read syndicated cartoons online or in print publications. Others enjoyed reading comic books as youngsters and have done so later on

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Faith Ringgold’s Retrospective Exhibit “American People”

Ellen Levitt — Sat, 12 Mar 2022 14:24:45 +0000

What is North American art? Who are the North American People? There are many answers to these two questions — and more likely — curators,

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AfroFuturist Period Room “almost woke” at the MET?

Ellen Levitt — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 12:21:01 +0000

Reclaiming the Past While Being Future Forward The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a selection of what are called “period rooms.” As in many other

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Transgenerational Trauma and Healing for African-Americans

Lisa DuBois — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 18:01:55 +0000

The Inherited Strength in Mind, Body and Soul of Our African Ancestors A rich new culture blending old and new rituals, style and music has

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NYC’s New Museum Triennial and Pan African Artists Today

Ellen Levitt — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 11:19:13 +0000

In the world of art museums, the biennial and triennial exhibitions generate a lot of buzz. These art survey shows bring together a variety of

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Lisa Shepard Stewart – In Love With African Textiles

Ionia Dunn Lee Cisse — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 12:02:17 +0000

“I love African fabrics with every fiber of my being”, says Lisa Shepard Stewart, textile expert, fashion designer, book author, and Owner of Cultured Expressions

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Ozier Muhammad’s Photographs at the Keith De Lellis Gallery

Ellen Levitt — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 11:11:51 +0000

In late October, Ozier Muhammad began our conversation at the Keith de Lellis Gallery in midtown Manhattan by contemplating his college years. “One of my professors suggested

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Happy Birthday Tell Your Own Story Benny Andrews

Ronald Bunn — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 13:15:26 +0000

🎂Benny Andrews, born November 13, 1930 in rural Plainview, Georgia, was a painter, collagist, educator and activist. From his early childhood poverty years in Plainview, Georgia, Andrews,

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Dawoud Bey: An American Project — Review

Ellen Levitt — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 11:11:15 +0000

When you visit a museum or gallery to take in an exhibition, do you ponder the display process? Do you stand back and survey the

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Birthday Greetings Renee Cox

Perri Gaffney — Sat, 16 Oct 2021 07:52:31 +0000

🎂Renee Cox, born October 16, 1960, is a Jamaican-American artist, photographer and activist. Renee was born in Colgate, Jamaica and raised in Scarsdale, New York. Often

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Historic 1998 Photo of Renown African-American Artists

Ronald Bunn — Sun, 10 Oct 2021 09:25:30 +0000

We’ve received a copy of this photo of renown African-American Fine Artists taken by Hakim Mutlaq in the 1990s at the Schomburg Cultural Center in

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Birthday Greetings Archibald John Motley, Jr.

Ronald Bunn — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 12:35:10 +0000

🎂Archibald John Motley, Jr. , born October 7, 1891, was a visual artist. He studied painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

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Happy Birthday Faith Ringgold

Ronald Bunn — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 12:23:36 +0000

🎂Faith Ringgold, born October 8, 1930, is a painter, writer, and artist who created beautiful art and also served as a teacher in the New

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Chester Higgins Jr.’s 5 Decades of Nile River Photographs

Ellen Levitt — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 07:20:52 +0000

There are several ways to read a photography book. You should not just read through it once; flip through the pages and randomly find intriguing

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The Obama Portraits Tour: Brooklyn Dispatch

Ellen Levitt — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 11:04:29 +0000

On the Fourth Floor of the august Brooklyn Museum of Art, there is a gallery that temporarily features two large portraits. One is of Barack

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Brooklyn and Its Many Art Venues

Ellen Levitt — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 17:04:48 +0000

A big draw near the summer’s end will be “The Obama Portraits Tour,” from August 27 through October 24. The Brooklyn Museum will be one

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Lisa DuBois, Benin Bronzes and Conceptual Art

Icelly Franco — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 10:08:26 +0000

Conceptual art often speaks to current affairs, and can bring attention to important issues. Among those issues are reparations, civil rights and various injustices. Art

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Cinque Retro at Art Students League Gallery

Ellen Levitt — Sat, 26 Jun 2021 11:50:03 +0000

Spending an afternoon at a famous art museum can be a delight, but you might be shoulder to shoulder with many other patrons of the

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Alex Harsley, Photographer in the City, of The City

Ellen Levitt — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 10:55:55 +0000

In 1951 the book “A Walker in the City” was published. It was an ode to New York City, good and bad, and it might seem

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Bob Gumbs’ “Lady in Gold”

Ronald Bunn — Fri, 28 May 2021 10:25:35 +0000

Bob Gumbs was born in Harlem, New York on March 15, 1939. Raised in the Morrisania section of the South Bronx, he graduated from City

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Jimmy James Greene’s “Easter Ritual”

Ronald Bunn — Fri, 21 May 2021 21:53:54 +0000

Jimmy James Greene began his professional career as the mural apprentice for acclaimed painter Jon Onye Lockard. Under his direction, they produced murals that are

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Glenda Jones Photographs — Ethiopian Omo Valley

Ronald Bunn — Fri, 14 May 2021 15:17:37 +0000

Glenda Jones has taken photographs and documented the culture of women and children around the world, with a particular focus on Africa, due to its

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Art: Lisa DuBois’ “If You Hear the Dogs”

Icelly Franco — Sun, 09 May 2021 10:29:34 +0000

Lisa Dubois is an artist, curator and photographer who was born in Harlem. She received her professional photography degree from the Germain School of Photography,

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Chester Higgins’ “State of Affairs — The American Flag”

Ronald Bunn — Fri, 07 May 2021 08:19:44 +0000

Chester Higgins (Lexington, Kentucky, 1948) is an American photographer. He spent his childhood in Brockton, Alabama and studied business management at Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee

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Ademola Olugebefola’s Freedom Movement Morphs into Tri-Fusion

Donna Mason — Sat, 01 May 2021 09:23:18 +0000

Ademola Olugebefola’s artistic career spans the significant part of the radical change that began in the mid century roil of the 20th century when he

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New Museum’s “Grief and Grievance” Exhibit

Ellen Levitt — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 07:47:29 +0000

Back in Spring 2000, while teaching United States history and government at Murry Bergtraum High School in Manhattan, I told my eleventh graders about a

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ART in ISOLATION

Ronald Bunn — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 13:08:28 +0000

May 1, 2020 marked the 15 year anniversary of Tabla Rasa Gallery, the first full time art gallery to locate in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. An online exhibition of art celebrating the creative spirit * FEATURED on ARTSY.net starting: Monday June 8, 2020.

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The Whitney Museum Black Male Exhibition

Charles E. Wilson — Sun, 31 May 2020 22:20:13 +0000

In 1994, I was very disappointed with this exhibit and its portrayal of African-American men. Do you, the reader, think this exhibit's portrayal has contributed to the ever present mistreatment of the African-American male? Watch the video. What do you think of the justifications for the exhibition offered by this panel of esteemed African-Americans? —RonnBunn

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I Am Not an Artist of the Empire

Gale Fulton-Ross — Thu, 14 May 2020 13:24:42 +0000

My friend, Reverend Dr. Ruby Sales says,” The Civil Rights movement is not the right term, the proper title is The Freedom Movement. Civil Rights gives our power to the government. Freedom gives the power to the people.” African Americans are not, today, who we once were. We must go back to controlling our inner lives.

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Visions 1020 Photo Exhibition by Ed Sherman

Ronald Bunn — Mon, 11 May 2020 18:09:59 +0000

May 8-June 17, 2020

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Frank Bowling: Mappa Mundi Exhibition

Ronald Bunn — Sat, 14 Oct 2017 10:58:33 +0000

Frank Bowling: Mappa Mundi is a comprehensive overview of rare and never-before exhibited large-scale paintings along with other works by the Guyanese-born British painter. June

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The Sea is History Art and Black Atlantic Cultures

Ronald Bunn — Sat, 14 Oct 2017 10:44:15 +0000

Sonia Boyce, J. Michael Dash, Ellen Gallagher, Isaac Julien, Courtney J. Martin, Steve McQueen, Mark Nash, David Scott, Allison Thompson - nine extraordinary artists reflect on the distinguished Guyanese-born, British painter Frank Bowling's work.

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Power in Print exhibition

Ronald Bunn — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 16:37:17 +0000

Power in Print explores the art of the Black Power movement poster, showcasing a variety of aesthetics, styles, and messaging strategies. This collection-based exhibition pulls

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