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January 12, 2018 by Roberta

Memorial for A.M. Satou Weaver Tuesday, Jan. 16, at African American Museum in Philadelphia

NEWS A.M. (Satou) Weaver From the African American Museum in Philadelphia, an invitation to a Memorial for A.M. Weaver Dear Friends, The AAMP family mourns the passing of A.M. Weaver,…

January 17, 2018 by Michael Lieberman

Deborah Roberts’s moving collages stand out at Untitled Art Fair in Miami

…of those great African American artists paused upon and captured, as Roberts has, the self-consciousness and identity issues of this age group of young, urban, African American girls. The plight…

June 10, 2018 by Andrea Kirsh

Books on Powerful Art by African American Women, part 1

…she has also been a significant figure within the art world because of her writing and lectures concerning the marginalization of African Americans and their art by mainstream art museums….

November 8, 2018 by Janyce Denise Glasper

John Dowell spins redemption from cotton’s painful history at the African American Museum of Philadelphia

John Dowell’s Cotton: The Soft, Dangerous Beauty of the Past on view at the African American Museum of Philadelphia is a multi-sensory experience that pulls visitors in through strong visuals…

June 1, 2021 by Andrea Kirsh

Senga Nengudi’s ‘Topologies’ at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Part 2

…inseparable from her life and her communal exploration of African and other non-Western sources of knowledge, mythology, ritual and art as an expansive resource for African-American and diasporic communities. Her…

November 9, 2022 by Andrea Kirsh

Modigliani Up Close, a gem of a show demonstrates influence of African art on western artists

…build upon the Barnes’ significant collection of the artist’s work (twelve paintings, one sculpture, and three works on paper) and highlight Albert Barnes’ interest in demonstrating the influence of African…

August 7, 2023 by Andrea Kirsh

William Edmondson’s ‘Monumental Vision’ at the Barnes Foundation

…the title acknowledges the artist’s place within American art, and suggests that his body of work is a counter-monument to African American communities in the Jim Crow South that were…

April 24, 2016 by Evan Paul Laudenslager

The guitar reigns supreme in Nigerien “Purple Rain”

…academia, where the blues is believed to have originated from African-American work songs, while the call and response comes from Africa. When this music was introduced to the Americas through…