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Newark Museum hosts “Glass Beads of Ghana” thru June 15, 2009
The making and the use of decorative beads has been a tradition in Africa for over 400 years. The same styles have been maintained and updated in the west African country of Ghana.
To explore this art form, the exhibit uses video and photographs to show [...]

Go see art, listen to music, watch dance and make up your own mind. Don’t let some one decide for you what is not worth seeing.

Earlier this month Rennie Harris Puremovement preformed in NYC Central Park and in reading the NY Times review along with this photograph of Mr. Harris, I was intrigued. Out here in the desert, during the summer there is no Central Park

I’m asked “Why did you give a certain name to a painting” and I don’t know. Sometimes it just shows up in my head. Nothing deep or heavy, it just sounds right.
This painting was done this morning, mostly with a pallet knife and some glazes. The edges reminded me of glass. That is about as [...]

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in NYC will have some special exhibits thru the summer until mid- September highlighting art from their permanent collections.
“New York In the 1940s”

European artists escaping the turmoil of World War II came to New York during the ‘40s to work and exhibit. A lot of their paintings, some in [...]

Boston Museum of Fine Arts – thru December 7, 2008

“After the Hurricane”, Bahamas, 1899
An extensive collection of work by Winslow Homer, (1836-1910), is on display at the Boston Museum. The exhibit includes paintings, water colors, illustrations (from “Harper’s Weekly” – a political magazine published from 1857 to 1916) and some etchings.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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“The mission of NBAF is to engage, cultivate and educate diverse audiences about the arts and culture of the African Diaspora and provide opportunities for artistic and creative expression.”

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Free to the pubic, this year’s Family Fun Day provides hands-on activities, such as making dream-catcher and other dream-inspired arts and craft; it also entertains families and visitors with dance, music and theatrical performances suitable for all ages.

Works by 20th century artist Robert Rauschenberg, (1925 – 2008), are on display at the Meyerovich Gallery in San Francisco, CA until August 1, 2008.
Rauschenberg journeyed from Abstract Impressionism to Pop Artist during the 50’s when he started to use material not usually seen in a painting, (he often found interesting trash in the street), [...]

Kojo Griffin , Untitled from the series Field Theory: group scene , 2000

African American art from the 20th and 21st centuries on view at the Houston Museum of Fine Art . According to the museum site, the collection of over a 100 works will include “early crafts, self-taught artists, [...]