Built like a family photo album with close to 70 pieces by 50 artists, this group exhibition demonstrates the diversity and nuisance within narratives of tradition, consanguinity, and origin.
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A Hidden Hero Of Jazz
Williams didn’t just change, she grew; the brilliant ideas that were present in her earlier work expanded on contact with new musical realms, and she found herself doubling back on prior resistance to the strongest and most difficult new styles to incorporate both their freedom and their complexity into her playing.
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Erased from history books, the stories and roles of women in slave revolts will now be told in vivid form by Rebecca Hall.
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The current furor over the Brooklyn Museum’s appointment of a white woman to oversee the museum’s African Art collection is not surprising or infuriating to Steven Nelson. Nelson is an African American art historian at UCLA who specializes in African art, and he says, “There are very few of us in the field.”
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