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This post highlights the pivotal work of Black artists who helped to bring African-American experiences into the elite art world. Black Arts as a movement speaks directly to the needs and aspirations of Black America. The Black artist speaks to the spiritual and cultural needs of Black individuals in their artistry.

The practitioners of Black arts are encouraged by a desire to face white power structures and assert an African American cultural identity. Black arts intend to serve the community and artists.

NEW YORK (AP) — More than 30 works by artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (zhahn mee-SHEHL’ BAH’-skee-aht) will appear at a New York City exhibit before a private sale.

The exhibit at Sotheby’s galleries runs May 2 through June 9. Most will be available for sale.

They include works on paper in marker and crayon from 1979 and monumental canvases from 1987.

The Brooklyn-born Basquiat was 27 when he died of a drug overdose in 1988.

Among the highlights is “Punch Bag” from 1983 depicting a black boxer. It’s been owned by a European collector since the late 1990s.

Colorful canvas “Love Dub for A” from 1987 has been offered for sale only once before.

The auction record for a Basquiat is “Untitled,” a painting of a black fisherman that sold for $26.4 million in November.

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Black artists stress racial pride, a gratitude of African heritage, and a commitment to produce works that show the culture and experiences of black people. In each age, events of the day galvanize black artists to create, organize, and transform the world.

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This short article highlights the essential work of Black artists who assisted to bring African-American experiences into the elite art world. Black Arts as a movement speaks straight to the needs and goals of Black America. The Black artist speaks to the spiritual and cultural needs of Black individuals in their artistry.

African-American arts represent a cultural motion. It includes many visual artists, efficiency artists, sculptors, authors, artists, and more. The specialists of Black arts are inspired by a desire to challenge white class structure and assert an African American cultural identity. Black magics intend to serve the neighborhood and artists.

The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo: The Forgotten History of America’s Dutch-Owned Slaves (University Press of Mississippi, 2016) presents the history of the nation’s forgotten Dutch slave community and free Dutch-speaking African Americans from seventeenth-century New Amsterdam to…

Black artists stress racial pride, a gratitude of African heritage, and a dedication to produce works that reflect the culture and experiences of black individuals. In each period, occasions of the day galvanize black artists to produce, organize, and change the world.

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This short article highlights the pivotal work of Black artists who assisted to bring African-American experiences into the elite art world. Black Arts as a motion speaks directly to the needs and goals of Black America. The Black artist speaks to the spiritual and cultural requirements of Black people in their artistry.

African-American arts represent a cultural motion. It consists of many visual artists, efficiency artists, sculptors, authors, musicians, and more. The specialists of Black arts are motivated by a desire to face white power structures and assert an African American cultural identity. Black arts aim to serve the community and artists.

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In contemporary art history, 30-something year old black artist, Kara Walker is best known for her life-size black silhouettes that bring an artistic vision to civil rights history and racism.

Her work has been seen at places like the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Walker is the second youngest recipient of the prestigious John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s “genius” grant, earned at age 27.

Walker is a native of Stockton, CA. She received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1994, following in her father’s footsteps, who is also an artist and professor.

Many blacks have found Walker’s work controversial, arguing about the way she presents her graphic artwork. For example, in her piece called “The Battle of Atlanta,” a white southern soldier is raping a black girl while her brother watches in shock. In another work, a young black slave girl skips past a tree with a lynched black man swinging above. Her first piece, “Gone, An Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred Between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart” was most controversial.

In her exhibits, Walker uses panoramic rooms filled with detailed black silhouette cut-outs. You can see the terrifying expression of a person’s face or the blades of hair in the slave master’s beard. After Hurricane Katrina, Walker created “After the Deluge”, which compared Katrina victims to victims of the Middle Passage. Walker’s other works include “Darkytown Rebellion”, “Slavery Slavery” and “Elegy for a No-Account Niggra.”

The Detroit Institute of Art removed Walker’s “A Means to an End: A Shadow Drama in Five Acts from the Where the Girls Are: Prints by Women” from the DIA’s Collection exhibition after a crowd of blacks protested against the piece.

Kara Walker is currently working as a professor of visual arts in the MFA program at Columbia University. Her work has been seen all over the world: The Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa, The Renaissance Society in Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Black artists stress racial pride, a gratitude of African heritage, and a dedication to produce works that reflect the culture and experiences of black people. In each period, events of the day galvanize black artists to develop, arrange, and change the world.

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This short article highlights the essential work of Black artists who helped to bring African-American experiences into the elite art world. Black Arts as a motion speaks straight to the needs and goals of Black America. The Black artist speaks to the cultural and spiritual requirements of Black individuals in their artistry.

African-American arts represent a cultural movement. It includes numerous visual artists, performance artists, carvers, authors, artists, and more. The specialists of Black arts are encouraged by a desire to face white power structures and assert an African American cultural identity. Witchcrafts intend to serve the community and artists.

Who wears naked white girls as art?

If you think the question is weird, here’s the answer: It’s a black man named Nate Hill, a performance artist from Brooklyn, New York.

So you’re probably asking: “What the hell?”

Well, we are, too.

But it’s true. Hill, 36, has created a controversial project he calls “Trophy Scarves,” where he drapes naked white women over his shoulders and photographs his “scarves” for his emerging following.

Hill explains that his “Trophy Scarves” project is a satire on interracial dating.

“There are people who see certain races as status symbols, and someone had to comment on that,” Hill to Vice.

So is Hill’s work a serious creative commentary on race relations in America, or a thinly-veiled attempt to press-up on white girls?

We’re still not totally clear about how draping naked white women over a black man’s shoulders is a keen observation about interracial dating. It sounds like Hill is getting his freak on and playing it off as art.

And it seems to be working: Hill’s work has become so popular that white women actually ask Hill to come to their homes so they can be used as “Trophy Scarves” and participate in his art project.

Did I mention that Hill is married?

Oh, yeah. Is she falling for the okie-doke? Here’s what Hill told Vice when asked about The Mrs.:

How does your wife respond to your art?

“That’s another thing I’ve had to just let go of: Worrying that she’s not into it, or happy with it. I just have to remember that it’s not her art.  It’s not her life. She has her own stuff going on, her own job, her own hobbies… But how does she feel about it? She tolerates it.”

Do you talk about it to her?

“Sometimes. But I don’t have any expectations. We used to battle about it, like why she liked them, why didn’t she like them, that she should like them, and so on… I blocked her on Twitter, so she can’t see what I’m doing. She just followed me on Instagram, so I’m probably going to block her on there too.”

Hill says he is interested in exploring race issues, like another wacky project called “White Powder Milk,” Hill’s website that offers customers milk gargled by pretty, college-educated white girls.

What’s the future of “Trophy Scarves”?

“I’m just going to do this as hard as I can for a couple of months, until the next year, and see what happens,” Hill told Vice. “I don’t know how many is enough. I think maybe like 100 trophy scarves. And then after 100, maybe go to 200. It’s like my friend said: “There’s never going to be enough trophy scarves. There’s always going to be one more trophy scarf.”

So is Hill a brilliant performance artist who is enlightening folks about interracial dating, or just a strange brother who is attracted to white women?

And would you let your husband wear naked white women as part of his performance art project?

What do you think?

We’re still asking: “What the hell?!”

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An artist named Meg Webster is showcasing “Food Stamp Table” at Miami’s Art Basel in the Paula Cooper Gallery and the minimalist art comments on something we already know--people living on food stamps have it hard. If we didn’t know it by now, we knew it when the House passed the heartless bill to cut the food stamp programs by $4 billion.

In the above photo of Meg’s piece, you’ll see $4.60 worth of food– one can of Campbell’s soup, one egg, one head of broccoli and one pack of Ramen noodles. Meanwhile, Meg’s piece as art and not $4.60 worth of food is being sold as an artwork for $12,000!

I’m sure you can’t read the text on the wall from here, so allow me to do you a favor and provide it for you. I think it’s the text that makes this artwork so expensive.

“On November 1, 2013 the 2009 Recovery Act’s boost to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits ended, resulting in cuts to every SNAP household. It’s the equivalent of taking away 21 meals per month.”

I appreciated Meg’s art for being raw and honest, but having something like this make such a gross profit is disgusting. You mean to tell me the single mother who can barely make it to work so she can feed her kids could put all she has in her cabinet on her shabby kitchen table and sell it to some cultured and wealthy fool for $12,000?

Meg’s website claims that she is “a sculptor who makes minimal art with natural materials to be directly perceived by the body. Some works are to be entered. Some works are planted.” Meg is not new to the art game. Her impressive resume boasts almost 30 years of experience, collections in Guggenheim Museum and commissioned art all around the country. I respect her work, but I don’t understand how and why someone could pay so much money for someone’s real life struggle?

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African-American arts represent a cultural movement. It includes lots of visual artists, efficiency artists, carvers, writers, musicians, and more. The practitioners of Black arts are inspired by a desire to face white class structure and assert an African American cultural identity. Witchcrafts intend to serve the neighborhood and artists.

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In 1926 Americans began celebrating “Black History Week,” and in recent decades this remembrance of African American history was expanded for the entire month of February. In the Southland, celebrations, a parade, testimonials, museums and libraries offer more than entertainment. Take the time to learn about this unique part of our American culture.

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Black History Month Banquet
Toyota Meeting Hall
Torrance Civic Center
3330 Civic Center Drive
Torrance, CA 90503
(562) 490-9522
(562) 477-3939
Hours: Feb 23, 6 p.m.
Price: $40 in advance/ $50 at the door/ $30 children 10 to 17 years old
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Sponsored by nonprofit Yaba TV, this Black History Month banquet celebrates America’s connection with the cultures of Africa. Great Americans and Africans will be honored for their achievements in Black History. Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, and more will be celebrated. Foods from Jamaica, Ethiopia, Ghana and Nigeria combine with performances that bring life to a great cultural inheritance. It’s a mix of past and present you’ll find nowhere else.

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Black History Month With Rhythms Of The Village
View Park Library
3854 W 54th St.
Los Angeles, CA 90043
(323) 293-5371
Hours: Feb. 19, 2 to 3 p.m.
Price: free
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Want to travel to Africa for the afternoon? Here’s your chance. This recreation of African village culture through performance art will take you there. Onochie Chukwurah’s storytelling, interactive performance and visual art  is a hands-on experience that seeks to give its audience a window into village life. Perfect for children, teens, and adults, this rare event brings the village to Los Angeles. Celebrating Black History Month with Rhythms of the Village is an opportunity to share the traditions of a not so distant past.

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Gallery of Discovery
600 State Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90037
(213) 744-7432
Hours: Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sundays 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Price: free ($10 parking)
www.caamuseum.org

The multi-functional gallery was an immediate success when first opened. With emotionally imposing images of the dark history of slavery, visitors are immersed into a past that must not be forgotten. From the Library of Congress, early 20th century archived audio recordings of surviving slaves tell stories of perseverance and dignity. The diverse displays create a tangible sense of the past. More than a museum, CAAM conducts a broad range of cultural events illustrating the cultural and historical contributions of African Americans.

Related: Los Angeles Museums For Free

The Museum Of Tolerance
The Depths of Hate
9786 W Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90035
(310) 553-8403
Hours: Fridays in February, 2 to 3 p.m.
Price: $15.50 adults/ $12.50 seniors 62+ years/$11.50 students and youth 5-18 years/free for children under 5 years
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What is hate? How do we move past it? Former white supremacist Tim Zaal shocks and enlightens while explaining his path from racism to defection from the movement. This serious, in-person lecture brings a raw truth few outsiders can understand. His story moves from his induction to doubt then ultimately to his profound insights. Zaal’s presentation is an honest reconciliation with our greater society. Don’t miss this eye-opening experience.

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Black Resource Center
A C Bilbrew Library
150 E El Segundo Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90061
(310) 538-0059
Hours: Mondays through Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Fridays, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturdays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Sundays.
Price: free
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Open year round, the Bilbrew Public Library offers extensive resources for understanding black history and its contributions to the American story. The unique collection was established in 1978 for the general public, but like a university collection it comprises everything from film to government publications to newspapers and magazines to scholarly books. A microfilm collection records historic letters and diaries. Whether for casual or serious research, learning about the “black experience” is possible at any time.

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