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At a public opening event, Joslyn Art Museum unveiled five new contemporary acquisitions by American artists Rashid Johnson, Therman Statom, Mickalene Thomas, Kara Walker, and Kehinde ...

Picks for Feb. 9-12 includes a performance of The Vagina Monologues to benefit Safe Harbors legal fund for immigration issues; concerts by Natural Satellite and Dan Navarro.

“Together in Time: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection” will anchor a new suite of exhibitions.

Nine Things To Do suggestions include Master Singers, Arts Worcester, Shane Profitt, Frederick Douglass reading, Katharine Dain ...

Kara Walker, (born November 26, 1969, Stockton, California, U.S.), American installation artist who used intricate cut-paper silhouettes, together with collage, drawing, painting, performance, film, video, shadow puppetry, light projection, and animation, to comment on power, race, and gender relations. Her father, Larry Walker, was an artist and chair of the art department at the University of the Pacific in Stockton. She showed promise as an artist from a young age, but it was not until the f...

The Pueblo City-County Library District is celebrating Black History Month with free events and programs.

Art-driven displays have the power to spark community building.

Credit: @jadephotographs on Instagram Museums, attractions, and cultural institutions across New York State are commemorating Black History Month this February with special programs and events honoring and celebrating the great contributions and achievements of African Americans. From art workshops to live performances to moving exhibits

It features more than 40 works from the Bowdoin College Museum of Arts collection and confronts the history of marginalization of Black women.

AMHERST — The Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, which has been closed to the public for nearly three years, is poised to reopen with two new exhibits in place.The museum shut its doors for all in March 2020 when COVID-19 arrived, and though it...