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Lorna Simpson’s Cut-Up Portraits Evoke the Complexity of Identity

Avatar photo by Kate Silzer June 27, 2020December 10, 2020

Composed of photographs culled from vintage Ebony magazines, the faces in these collages are reconstructed into new selves.

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Romare Bearden’s Collages of Life in the Rural South and Industrial North

by Matthew Terrell October 24, 2019October 25, 2019

For the first time in decades, more than 30 collages from Bearden’s Profile series is being shown together.

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Deconstructing Race in Western Painting

by David Carrier December 1, 2018November 30, 2018

The most interesting part of this excellent exhibition is its presentation of black modernists, for here we enter relatively unfamiliar territory.

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Romare Bearden’s Mythic Collages, Rooted in the American South

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney April 14, 2017

The characters of Romare Bearden’s collages, on view now at DC Moore Gallery, form a kind of pantheon, a great mythological scheme particular only to the black American South.

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Romare Bearden’s Fevered Dream

by John Yau March 26, 2017March 24, 2017

Derived from memory, Bearden’s bayou is at once real and mythic, the Black counterpart to William Faulkner’s apocryphal Yoknapatawpha County.

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An Eclectic Assortment of Collages, Cut from Context and Pasted Together

Avatar photo by Melissa Stern March 22, 2017March 24, 2017

Though the exhibition is a little bit all over the map, there are some real gems to be found here.

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From Flint with Love, Art of the African Diaspora

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli July 2, 2016July 5, 2016

Unlike many notable private art collections that serve the public good only after they have been donated to a museum (or turned into museums of their own), the Mott-Warsh Collection was conceived to fulfill a larger social purpose.

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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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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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The Strange Union of Contemporary Art and the Hudson River School

by Faheem Haider May 13, 2015May 15, 2015

HUDSON, NY — River Crossings, the recently opened show up at the historic Thomas Cole House and Olana, Frederic Edwin Church’s architectural ode to Orientalism, over-promises and under-delivers.

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Hudson River School Painters’ Homes Make Way for Contemporary Art

Avatar photo by Allison Meier April 10, 2015April 12, 2015

Next month, 28 contemporary American artists will infiltrate the homes of the two artists who are the “physical cornerstone of American art,” as co-curator Stephen Hannock puts it.

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A Visual History of Federal Art Spending in the United States

Avatar photo by Deborah Krieger March 17, 2014March 20, 2014

PHILADELPHIA — Art for Society’s Sake: The WPA and Its Legacy, on view at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts through April 6th, recalls an era in this country when the dissemination of art was a governmental duty, with the arts substantially funded on the federal level.

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