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Envisioning Inclusive, Soulful Spaces for Artists
Can the terms of the art world really change from competitive creative genius to notions of collective power and proximity?
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Redrawing the History of Women of Color in Vibrant Hues
Firelei Báez: Joy Out of Fire, on view at Harlem's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, offers long-overdue recognition for a number of women activists, writers, artists, and politicians of color.
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Studio Museum in Harlem and DC Arts High School Receive Historic Gift of Over 650 Contemporary Works
The late civil rights activist and Black arts patron Peggy Cooper Cafritz has bestowed the "largest gift ever made of contemporary art by artists of African descent" to the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Duke Ellington School of the Arts.
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Thelma Golden Shares the Books that Inspired Her
The Studio Museum director will discuss the influence of books on her life and career with author Kaitlyn Greenidge at the New York Public Library.
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Poets Respond to Artists at the Studio Museum in Harlem
To commemorate the last days of its exhibition Fictions, the Studio Museum in Harlem has invited six contemporary poets to respond to the work on view.
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Artworks from Two Museums Share a Space, But Not a Conversation
An exhibition joins artworks from the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh and Studio Museum in Harlem. While an astute idea, there's a sterility to this show that's underpinned by an uninspired curation.
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The Curator of LA's New ICA on Opening Up the Insular Art World
Despite her unorthodox path, Jamillah James has established herself as a curator to watch.
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The Power of Protest Art and the Dignity of the Protester
An exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem about organized protests asks if they can push us to recognize our shared humanity.
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Remembrances of Betty Blayton-Taylor, Studio Museum Co-Founder and Harlem Arts Activist
Betty not only opened doors, she built new doors — doors that, nearly 50 years later, remain permanently open in her students' own backyard.
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Painting, Performing, and Deconstructing the Body
Jordan Casteel, EJ Hill, and Jibade-Khalil Huffman all use their work to explore the body, whether the subject’s, the artist’s, or the spectator’s.
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A Black Woman Stands Out Among the Washington Color School Artists
Alma Thomas was the sole black female artist in what became known as the Washington Color School, and the current exhibition reveals some of the complexity of her art.
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Is It Possible to See What Is There?
The legendary curator Dorothy Miller first obtained a Richard Hunt sculpture for the Museum of Modern Art in 1957.