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A second installment of conversations with contemporary women artists who reflect on their art and share what inspires them most in the Museum.
Ann C. Collins
March 20, 2023
In celebration of Women’s History Month, a selection of contemporary women artists reflect on their art and share what inspires them most in the Museum.
Ann C. Collins
March 3, 2023
Recent research sheds light on the life and work of a Massachusetts militiaman and influential horn carver.
Pierre Terjanian
February 8, 2023
Tanekeya Word shares the knowledge and experiences behind Starshine & Clay, a fantastical embodiment of the feelings she has about Black girlhood and Black womanhood.
Tanekeya Word
February 3, 2023
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Civic Practice Partnership artist-in-residence Rashida Bumbray is a performance artist, curator, choreographer, and the Director of Culture and Art at the Open Society Foundations. Her work focuses on Black urban spaces and communities, and what it means to be in a space that has layers of generational trauma.
January 19, 2023
Scientific research on food residue found in nineteenth-century stoneware vessels produced by enslaved artisans sheds light on the contents once stored inside.
Adriana Rizzo
January 10, 2023
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Learn more about John Blanke, a trumpeter who performed at the coronation of Henry VIII, and other documented free Black residents of Tudor England.
January 6, 2023
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James Van Der Zee, the world-renowned chronicler of Black life in New York City during the Harlem Renaissance and for decades thereafter, was a virtuoso portraitist and one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th century.
December 13, 2022
If you’re mourning in New York City, there are three helpful pilgrimage sites.
Ada Calhoun
November 19, 2022
How did a set of Congolese headdresses influence the evolution of modern fashion?
Wendy A. Grossman
September 26, 2022