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Culture Type 2020 Holiday Gift Guide: Artist-Inspired Ideas for Everyone on Your List
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Culture Type 2020 Holiday Gift Guide: Artist-Inspired Ideas for Everyone on Your List

by Victoria L. Valentine on Nov 30, 2020 • No Comments
  FAITH RINGGOLD COLLABORATED with Vans and the Museum of Modern Art. The estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat partnered with Coach and Derrick Adams joined forces with a swimsuit brand. Considering an art-inspired gift? This year, highly acclaimed Black artists have made their work more accessible to wider audiences in the form of products such as...
Art for Change: 12 Black Designers Created Black Lives Matter Protest Posters
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Art for Change: 12 Black Designers Created Black Lives Matter Protest Posters

by Victoria L. Valentine on Jul 3, 2020 • 1 Comment
  PROTESTORS HAVE BEEN MARCHING throughout the United States and internationally out of frustration, anger, and fear following the latest spate of police killings. Since late May, people have taken to the streets chanting Black Lives Matter and calling for racial justice, often facing violent reprisals from law enforcement. The collective actions are meant to...

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For Faith Ringgold, the American Flag Has Always Been a Potent and Powerful Symbol

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National Gallery of Art Acquires Faith Ringgold’s ‘Flag is Bleeding’ Painting: May Be Museum’s ‘Most Important Purchase of a Single Work of Contemporary Art’ Since 1976

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Bust of Martin Luther King Jr., on Display at U.S. Capitol Bears Witness to Politics, Presidential History, and Changing America

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