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Standing on opposite sides of a roughly 9-by-12-foot table in a work room at the Berkeley Art Museum and ... included in “Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California.” ...
Even after losing more than $260,000 in federal support for its latest exhibition, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive isn’t backing down. “We will persist. We will continue,” BAMPFA ...
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, or BAMPFA, collaborated with local artists to showcase 20th-century African ...
More than 100 beautiful, fascinating quilts of widely varied styles made primarily by African American women with Bay Area ...
WWII-era, they could make the difference between sleeping or freezing for the Black families who moved out of the South ...
Dexter Gordon and Slide Hampton’s jazz album “A Day in Copenhagen”—piped into the galleries—is the principal soundtrack for “Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century,” at ...
The thesis is simple, surprising, and undeniable: Nashville as central to African American fine art in the 20th century. Fisk University is the reason why. ByChadd Scott, Contributor. Forbes ...
African-American art and artists have been an important piece of Detroit's cultural identity at least since the middle of the 20th Century, but often the work and the artists who make it have ...
NEW YORK — The Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition “Edges of ... the vexed and vulnerable status of African American dance in the 20th century. Saar builds her work, “I’ve Got ...
The definition of American folk art is notoriously difficult to pin down. In the twentieth century “folk art” has embraced everything from Pennsylvania German frakturs to eccentric architectural ...
Adeyinka hopes to draw European collectors to the field. “There is a lot of demand for 20th-century African art from an African audience — in Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa and parts of north ...