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The historians said they understood the use of “artistic license” to heighten the drama, but Self Made overstepped. Even when the entire creative team is African American, Dunbar said, “that doesn’t mean we can’t wave the flag if there is a problem.”....

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David Driskell, Scholar and Advocate for African Diaspora Art, Dies at 88

The Washington Informer 06 Apr 2020

He was an artist, art scholar, art historian, art collector, author and curator ... In January, Walters announced she was donating 152 works by African American artists to Howard University ... “David at that time was a leading advocate of African American artists,” Powell said....

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Award-winning musician, academic, family man: Nduduzo Makhathini and all that jazz

Business Day 06 Apr 2020

“We love this man with an uncommon depth… when he walks into a room, soul walks in with him.” These were the words of American virtuoso trumpeter Wynton Marsalis in his introduction of multi-award-winning South African musician and Blue Note artist Nduduzo Makhathini to a Joy of Jazz festival audience last year....

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Thandika Mkandawire : An intellectual giant, an pan-Africanist

Mail Guardian South Africa 06 Apr 2020

He leaves us having contributed to the development of a formidable community of African social scientists over the half a century that coincides with his professional career ... His leadership enabled Codesria to become the crucible and platform for radical African scholarship ... Its artists produce hundreds of icons of this much ‘beloved continent’....

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Nuns, non-virgins and a serial killer: Sharing stories through nature in west Cork

The Irish Times 05 Apr 2020

Their conversation comes to us from Land Walks, a sound project by the artist William Bock about a series of strolls around west Cork with people from Clonakilty Lodge and local residents ... It’s part of being an African that somebody would tell stories ... It’s part of being an African that somebody would tell stories....

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David Driskell, prominent authority on black art, dies at 88

Orlando Sentinel 04 Apr 2020

David Driskell, one of the nation's most influential African American artists and a leading ......

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Not Merely an Academic: A Man with vision like no other

The Patriotic Vanguard 04 Apr 2020

They were unquestionably hardworking and enduringly patriotic, but I want to use this occasion to revisit some of my impressionable hours with them, particularly those that deal with his disabling condition, his blindness, and how they dealt with it in a simplistic, but very sophisticated and artistic manner....

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David Driskell dies at 88

Rapid City Journal 04 Apr 2020

FALMOUTH, Maine — David Driskell, one of the nation's most influential African American artists and a leading authority on black art, has died ... Driskell was a multimedia artist who used the trees around his Falmouth, Maine, cabin home as a feature in his work....

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COVID-19: A virus doesn’t care where you’re from

Gulf News 04 Apr 2020

But for African people like me, who have witnessed the same phenomenon of attaching a disease to a nationality or ethnicity, it’s not a shock ... It is detrimental to the well-being of everyone to pretend that a virus is African or Chinese or American or French. - Laolu Senbanjo, Nigerian artist, lawyer and activist....

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Netflix Malawian film directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor draws criticism

The National 04 Apr 2020

• Gender equality in African film industry called into question ... It is the latest Netflix original filmed on the African continent, and follows the success of Catching Feelings, a film directed by and starring South African artist Kagiso Lediga ... from acclaimed African comics....

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David Driskell, prominent artist and authority on black art, dies at 88

Chicago Sun-Times 03 Apr 2020

Driskell, one of the most influential African American artists in the country, used the trees around his Falmouth, Maine, cabin home as a feature in his work. FALMOUTH, Maine — David Driskell, one of the nation’s most influential African American artists and a leading authority on black art, has died....

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David Driskell, prominent authority on black art, dies

Carroll County Times 03 Apr 2020

FALMOUTH, Maine — David Driskell, one of the nation’s most influential African American artists and a leading authority on black art, has died ... Driskell was a multimedia artist who used the trees around his Falmouth, Maine, cabin home as a feature in his work....

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Mourning a ‘golden' exhibition season curtailed by coronavirus

The Art Newspaper 03 Apr 2020

By coincidence, the start of the year in the UK was dominated by male artists ... Artemisia was set to herald a burst of shows by women and non-binary artists, which must now be under threat. The openings of the South African photographer Zanele Muholi’s show at Tate Modern and the ......