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assemblage artists ... (Several L.A.-based African American artists showed there.) Recall that “Soul of a Nation” opens with the Spiral group, formed a decade earlier by a wide range of artists mulling what one writer described as “their attitudes and commitments as Negro artists in the present struggle for Civil Rights.”....

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Rooted in Color: Conference offers advice for collecting African-American Art

Times Free Press 23 Mar 2019

/ Photo from the artist ... It is designed "to grow the number of Chattanoogans who are passionate about collecting and preserving African-American visual art and culture; to connect people to artists and galleries; and to create a local culture of collectors." ... / Photo from the artist....

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Discovered After 70, Black Artists Find Success, Too, Has Its Price

New York Times 23 Mar 2019

Once on the margins, older African-American artists are suddenly a hot commodity. They are relishing the attention while dealing with the market’s grueling demands ... ....

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Klan Researcher Wraps Up Ruth Pauley Lecture Series

The Pilot 23 Mar 2019

Daryl Davis is an international recording artist, actor and author. He also happens to be an African-American man who has a habit of befriending Ku Klux Klan members ... The Ku Klux Klan. For 30 years, Davis has traveled the country meeting with Klansmen to interview them on that very question ... A Black Man's Odyssey in the Ku Klux Klan.” ... ....

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Warner Music signs first ever deal with an algorithm

The Independent 23 Mar 2019

Where Jay-Z failed to step aside on the Great Gatsby soundtrack and let other artists do their thing, Lamar is more interested in highlighting the skills of his fellow artists, like South African singer Babes Wodumo, or Jorja Smith ... African singer Babes Wodumo, or Jorja Smith....

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Ralph Fiennes speaks out over Liam Neeson racism controversy

The Independent 23 Mar 2019

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Ozzy Osbourne reveals he thought he'd be dead at 40: 'It's getting closer to the ...

The Independent 23 Mar 2019

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Duke Ellington Connected with The Colour of Music Festival Petit

Afro 22 Mar 2019

The Colour of Music Festival gathers musicians of African ancestry from across the country and around the world ... An Artist like African-French composer Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges who was respected and revered overseas doesn’t receive as much recognition in the states....

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New contemporary art space opens in impoverished area outside Tunis

The Art Newspaper 22 Mar 2019

m white cube gallery, library and residency spaces for artists. Called B7L9, it is described as a venue and "incubator" for international and Tunisian artists, but also as an outreach effort to counter “radicalism and extremism” ... Discovered by the foundation’s vice president Lina Lazaar, she is B7L9’s first artist-in-residence....

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'Art in the Age of Black Power' exhibit opens at The Broad

ABC7 22 Mar 2019

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The Broad is opening a landmark exhibition, "Soul of a Nation . Art in the Age of Black Power 1963-1983." It will run March 23 through Sept ... It was organized by London's Tate Museum, but it focuses on more than 60 African American artists, many of them from Los Angeles....

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TV This Week, March 24-30: ‘Tigerland,’ ‘Venom’ and more

The Los Angeles Times 22 Mar 2019

Television Entertainment TV This Week, March 24-30. ‘Tigerland,’ ‘Venom’ and more ... (Discovery Channel). Advertisement ... KTLA ... KOCE ... “black-ish” costar Anthony Anderson returns to host the celebrating African American achievement in the arts ... A frustrated artist has in this new made-for-cable romantic fable.With Arielle Kebbel and Nick Bateman....

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Addis Fine Art: helping Ethiopian artists thrive at home and abroad

The National 21 Mar 2019

She previously worked in business consulting and project management and on a visit to the first 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair in London six years ago and was surprised by the lack of Ethiopian artists ... If not, the danger is that ‘African art’ will be seen as a homogenous ......

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Union exhibit puts 'black spaces on view'

Omaha World-Herald 21 Mar 2019

African artifacts such as carved zebra heads and tribal figurines provide another means for addressing black identity, and often figure prominently throughout the artist's settings ... Tour the exhibition, which brings together over 60 works by contemporary african-american artists focusing on issues of racial, gender and sexual identity....