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The Black Heritage Gallery, in the 5400 block of Almeda, is closing Saturday after decades of representing African-American artists, a victim of the "new Almeda". Mayra Beltran/Staff ...
“This partnership is a dream come true and an opportunity to share the beauty of Black Masking culture with the world,” says Williams. Her connection to football runs deep – as the only girl ...
ebsamuel10_AT.jpg Samuel's Gallery, the oldest surviving African American art gallery in the Bay Area is closing it's doors. Owner Samuel Fredericks will be moving a lot of his art into his home ...
The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection features works by significant Black painters (including Romare Bearden) along with letters from Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.
The DIA’s collection of African American art includes approximately 700 works by noted artists Robert Seldon Duncanson, Richmond Barthe, Elizabeth Catlett, Edward Clark, Mavis Pusey, and more.
"San Antonio Collects: African American Artists," an exhibit drawn from the collections of Harriet and Harmon Kelley and Leo and Irene Edwards, opens Tuesday at the San Antonio Museum of Art, 200 ...
I love art that engages the present. When it embraces, subverts, loves, hates -- anything, that is, but ignores -- the visual, cultural and political landscape it's born into. Done well, it ...
Because the museum John Cotton Dana founded in 1922 didn't wait till the 21 st century to start collecting African-American art. The Newark Museum bought its first work by an African-American in ...
Simone Leigh will be first Black woman to represent U.S. at Biennale The State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art say renowned ...