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Artists Contribute to a Coloring Book Benefiting the Black Painters Academy
More than 50 artists have submitted drawings for a coloring book that will help fund a permanent home for the new art school.
Azikiwe Mohammed
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An Artist Builds His Vision of Black Prosperity
Azikiwe Mohammed's kitschy, immersive installation presents weighty themes of Black identity.
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Artist’s ‘Stomp Out I.C.E.’ Enamel Pins Hope to Raise Awareness About Immigrant Detentions
The artist has set up a Kickstarter to find backers for the wearable art and raise funds for immigrants targeted by I.C.E.
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The Stories of African Contemporary Art Are Everywhere at the 1-54 Art Fair
From Ralph Ziman's massive Ziman sculpture to Uthman Wahaab's painterly critiques of technology, this art fair devoted to contemporary African art is packed with fascinating projects of every kind.
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A DJ Mines Her Grandfather's Record Collection at the Knockdown Center
DJ Susan Z Anthony will play music spanning the late 1950s to the mid-'70s at Azikiwe Mohammed's fictional thrift store.
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Photographing Harlem’s Residents as They Want to Be Seen
Artist Azikiwe Mohammed has set up a free, temporary portrait studio at Long Gallery Harlem.
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Spring/Break Art Show Trades Labyrinthine Rooms for Immersive Installations
For their second fair this year, the organizers of Spring/Break have set up shop in a multiuse development in Downtown Brooklyn.
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Spring/Break, a Sprawling Alternative Art Fair that Delivers
On Tuesday, at the preview of the Spring/Break Art Show, a writer I know told me she'd been sent there on an assignment to cover the "little" fairs surrounding the Armory Show.