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Jacob Lawrence Illuminates the American Struggle

Avatar photo by Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud April 5, 2021April 6, 2021

The American Struggle is now in Seattle, where the painter spent his final decades.

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A Jacob Lawrence Painting, Thought Missing for Decades, Was in a NYC Apartment All Along

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia October 21, 2020November 6, 2020

A recent visitor to the Metropolitan Museum’s current Jacob Lawrence exhibition knew of an artwork by Lawrence in a neighbor’s collection that he suspected might belong to the Struggle series.

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Jacob Lawrence Painting Missing for Half a Century Goes to Auction

by Elena Goukassian March 16, 2018April 5, 2018

A historical scene from the Chesapeake-Leopard affair (the 1807 incident that led to the War of 1812), the painting is headed for auction on April 5.

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The SCAD Museum of Art Celebrates the Legacy of Jacob Lawrence

by SCAD Museum of Art September 29, 2017

SCAD commemorates the centennial of the artist’s birth with a landmark group exhibition, on view through February 4, 2018.

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Scouting Out the Armory Show, a Theme Park for the Wealthy

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney March 3, 2017March 4, 2017

Amid the big, blue chip baubles, there are flickers of truly powerful and personal work at the latest edition of the vast Armory Show art fair.

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Best of 2015: Our Top 20 NYC Art Shows

Avatar photo by Hyperallergic December 15, 2015December 24, 2015

Occasionally, we are forced to venture beyond Brooklyn to see art.

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Inside Harlem’s New Starchitect-Designed Children’s Museum

Avatar photo by Carey Dunne October 15, 2015October 17, 2015

The Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling, which opened this past weekend in Harlem, says its target audience is kids between ages three and eight, but art lovers of any age will likely find it worth a visit.

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The Living History of Jacob Lawrence’s ‘Migration Series’

by Chase Quinn August 31, 2015September 22, 2015

I am only one generation removed from the history of African American migrants who, between 1917 and 1970, travelled North seeking economic opportunity, education, and respite from the strictures of Jim Crow South.

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Highlights from Maya Angelou’s Art Collection Head to Auction

by Claire Voon August 11, 2015August 11, 2015

Works from the private art collection of renowned poet and author Maya Angelou will soon go on public display.

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Mud Above Sky Below: Love and Death in Jacob Lawrence’s ‘Migration Series’

by Barry Nemett July 18, 2015July 22, 2015

Spring, 1968. All my students were black, and I wasn’t. Jacob Lawrence, who was teaching a course down the hall from me at Pratt Institute, was a famous artist and a real teacher; I wasn’t either of those things.

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Obamas Abandon Photo Ban, Bringing Selfies to the White House

by Claire Voon July 1, 2015July 4, 2015

This morning, the White House lifted its ban on cameras and photography during public tours, which signals the first time in over 40 years that images by photographers without official credentials will emerge from the famous rooms of the US president’s residence.

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The Triumph of Revisionism: The Whitney’s American Century

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli May 2, 2015May 6, 2015

With America Is Hard to See, the exhibition inaugurating its luminous new Renzo Piano building, the Whitney has reclaimed its role among the city’s museums as the engine of the new.

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