On May Day, these portraits provide a glimpse of a wide array of jobs that are vanishing under the pressures of automation, inexpensive mass production, and other technological and societal changes.
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The passing of artist Harry L. Davis | Black Art In America
“It’s with a heavy heart that I announce the passing of our dear friend and renowned artist Harry L. Davis. He was a warrior, a gentle giant, and a warm spirit…R.I.P.
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Classical Music Orgs Launch Initiative to Diversify Orchestras | Colorlines
The National Alliance for Audition Support will develop mentorship and audition programs to help more Black and Latinx classical musicians land spots in the United States’ predominantly White orchestras.
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‘Boom For Real’ Paints a Portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat As a Young Man | Colorlines
The upcoming documentary explores Basquiat’s formative teenage years in New York City.
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Wall Street Rush to Scoop Up Black Art Sends Prices Sky High | Bloomberg
Black artists, long overlooked and undervalued, now occupy one of the hottest corners of the market.
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An Afrofuturist Graphic Novel Revives the Lost Histories of Women-Led Slave Revolts | Hyperallergic
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 big picture: Window Nurses, NYC, 1966 | The Guardian
The racial divide in 1960s America is captured in a rediscovered image by Italian photographer Mario Carnicelli
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Not Enough Color In American Art Museums | NPR
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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Wishing A Very Happy Birthday to Dr. Samella Lewis | Black Art In America
Artist and art historian Samella Lewis is renowned for her contributions to African American art and art history.
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Charles White: A Retrospective, The Art Institute Chicago, Summer 18′ | Art Institute Chicago
A superbly gifted draftsman and printmaker as well as a talented mural and easel painter, he developed a distinctive and labor-intensive approach to art making and remained committed to a representational style at a time when the art world increasingly favored abstraction.
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