Sisters Antoinin & Morris Retire From Historic Institutions Aug 9, 2008
" African-American artists from every state in the union were represented in the first competition and exhibition. As a result, many unknown talents gained visibility while Atlanta Life began to build a corporate art collection. The competition and exhibition continued to draw 400 to 500 entrants per year, and the company holdings have increased to more than 300 works with every medium represented. While the primary focus of Atlanta Life has been on younger, newer and under-exposed artists, the... (Atlanta Daily World, GA)
New agenda on open space Aug 7, 2008
2-acre park named after Charlotte artist Romare Bearden is already on the drawing board, as is a 4-acre park in Second Ward ... 2-acre park named after Charlotte artist Romare Bearden in Third Ward near new ballpark. (Charlotte Business Journal, NC)
NBAF director Jul 19, 2008
You'd expect images by photographer Carrie Mae Weems, serigraphs and lithographs of work by Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden, prints by Elizabeth Catlett on the walls ... Original artwork by masters such as Romare Bearden and Elizabeth Catlett adorn the staircase ... In a single glance you can take in works from Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Jacob Lawrence, Faith Ringgold, Carrie Mae Weems and tribal artists from Benin to Mozambique. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Pittsburgh subway stations home to valuable works of art Mar 30, 2008
And the Port Authority recently learned that a Romare Bearden mural at another subway station is worth several million dollars. LeWitt s Thirteen Geometric Figures, 203 feet long and 9 feet tall, was paid for by philanthropist Vira I. Heinz, the transit agency said. (Somerset Daily American, PA)
Author and actor Maya Angelou celebrates 80 years of pain, joy Mar 27, 2008
Her 12-room town house, which she gutted and restored four years ago, is filled with art she collected in Africa and works by African-American artists Phoebe Beasley and Romare Bearden. In her parlor is a 4-by-7-foot quilt by Faith Ringgold, commissioned for Angelou's 60th birthday by Winfrey. (USA Today)
Post the First Comment Feb 23, 2008
Robert O'Meally, Zora Neale Hurston professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, joined the classic story of Odysseus with the art of African American artist Romare Bearden, Thursday at the J. Wayne Stark Galleries. Bearden, a 20th-century artist, tied Homer's classic story The Odyssey with artwork that other African-Americans could relate to even if they had no prior knowledge of Greek culture. (The Battalion, TX)
'The Piano Lesson' Feb 21, 2008
She recalls a room full of primarily white design students, talking to them about Skip James and the blues and Romare Bearden. She told them "creativity is not in the head" and watched them "ignited with the experience of Bearden.". (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Black History Month Activities Abound in New Jersey Feb 5, 2008
Among the works included in this exhibition are paintings by Frank Bowling, Alma Thomas, Hale Woodruff, Benny Andrews, Rex Goreleigh, and Hughie Lee-Smith; prints by Jacob Lawrence and Emma Amos; collages by Romare Bearden; photographs by Gordon Parks, Milton J. Hinton and Chuck Stewart; and sculpture by Mel Edwards and Selma Hortense Burke. For more information, visit. (PR Newswire)
Celebrating Black History Month Feb 4, 2008
It was founded by the artist Charles Alston at 306 W. 141st St. in Harlem and served as a studio and meeting place for some of the century's most prominent black artists, including poet Langston Hughes, sculptor Augusta Savage, painter Jacob Lawrence and artist Romare Bearden. (From. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Fun ways to celebrate Jan 31, 2008
"Duke Ellington's Cat." One of two dueling plays about the Duke, this musical puppet show stars Ellington's cool pet cat and is visually inspired by the colorful works of Romare Bearden. As this time-traveling feline chases a couple of rats that have stolen a piece of Ellington's music intended for the Queen of England, the play craftily addresses significant moments in the jazz legend's career. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Charlotte ballpark gets approval Jan 17, 2008
Also Tuesday, commissioners voted to move forward on two other projects linked to the stadium -- a new urban park named for Charlotte-born artist Romare Bearden and a mixed-use development in the old Brooklyn neighborhood in Second Ward. Those efforts are as important to uptown as a stadium, some commissioners said. (News & Observer -- Sports)
JPMorgan and Pera Museum Partner to Tour Renowned Corporate Art Collection Aug 1, 2007
The exhibition will feature works by leading artists, including Dan Flavin, Josef Albers, Milton Avery, Romare Bearden, Jean Dubuffet, Roy Lichtenstein, Cindy Sherman and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Several pieces are included because of their association with American pop culture, including Andy Warhol's silkscreened images of Marilyn Monroe. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
More of this story Jul 28, 2007
Artists represented in the exhibit include Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Lezley Saar, James Vander Zee, Bob Thompson and Todd Gray. For the exhibit, Moniz organized Kebede's large collection into four thematic categories. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
In Its 19th Season, the National Black Arts Festival Invites Audiences to Uncover Their Roots May 10, 2007
Original artworks from such artists as Romare Bearden, Robert S. Duncanson, Hale Woodruff, Benny Andrews, Carrie Mae Weems and Amalia Amaki, will be available for collectors to purchase. embrace opens at 7:30 pm, at Mason Murer Fine Art (199 Armour Drive, Atlanta, GA). (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
BERKELEYUnlikely allies seek to save Old City Hall Mar 22, 2007
" Spring would like to see the building donated to local history groups and used as a museum, and new council chambers built in the back. In 1977, the city outgrew the two-story structure and moved its offices to the current City Hall, a block away. But the City Council, zoning board, school board and Housing Authority continue to use the meeting chambers, which can accommodate 123 people. The chambers also contain the most valuable item the city owns that's not real estate: a seven-panel mural... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Intense search for place after slavery Feb 14, 2007
Myth and history meet in the boardinghouse, an intriguing collage-style set (in the manner of artist Romare Bearden, one of whose works inspired the play) by Lisa Clark. Loomis is a victim of Joe Turner, a real villain, memorial-ized in song, who used his power as brother of Tennessee's governor to randomly impress black men into near-slavery chain gangs for seven-year stints. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Admiring art while waiting for the next train Jan 25, 2007
Today she promotes the transit system as a public art institution in its own right, with a roster that includes Vito Acconci, Romare Bearden, Eric Fischl, Robert Kushner, Jacob Lawrence, Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Maya Lin, Mary Miss, Elizabeth Murray, Dennis Oppenheim, Faith Ringgold, Alison Saar and Robert Wilson. "I now feel this is worthy of being the destination," Bloodworth said one morning in December. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
'Tribal haute couture' art lands at Cornell Jan 23, 2007
"Here, the viewer will see Wilson's "The Unnatural Movement of Blackness," a world globe illuminated from the inside. On the outside, opaque, black Murano glass drips like oil to suggest the migration of slavery.You also see Renee Cox's "Yo Mama, Donna and Child," a 1995 color photograph. Cox is the artist who made waves in 2001 with "Yo Mama's Last Supper," in which Jesus is a nude black female.Kehinde Wiley's "Simon George I," a 2006 oil on canvas, is confrontational and elegant. The subject... (Florida Today)
Romare Bearden show is the best of the city and country Jan 21, 2007
By Camilla A. Herrera Staff Writer Published January 21 2007 Romare Bearden was a child in 1915 when he moved with his parents from North Carolina to Harlem in New York City ... Advertisement "I think of all of those wonderful conversations that must have happened in his living room," says Sophia Gevas, manager of Sacred Heart University's Gallery of Contemporary Art, which today opens "Romare Bearden: Scenes From the Portfolios." ... Ruth Fine, curator at the National Gallery of Art in... (Stamford Advocate)
They're living out a dream Jan 14, 2007
The seventh annual "I Have a Dream" weekend also featured a drum circle, educational films about King and a crafts room, where children created collages in the style of Romare Bearden, a celebrated African-American artist of the Harlem Renaissance era. The museum's activities are to continue today and tomorrow. (SunSpot.net)
Reality check on dating expectations Jan 3, 2007
Dateline High Museum-Guy A doesnt know a watercolor from a photograph He thinks Romare Bearden is a wine. So we ask Guy A why would you say you like the muesum when the closest thing to fine art you have seen is the black woman with the afro riding a tiger. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
It's their time of the year Jan 1, 2007
" "A lot of stuff we take for granted now in the paper business dates from the late '60s, and didn't exist before that," Tom Burke said. Pomegranate obtained exclusive rights to publish calendars with art by Escher, Romare Bearden, Edward Gorey and Charles Addams, and is one of the few publishers with the right to print Georgia O'Keeffe calendars. The company carved out niches in Asian art, African American art, Canadian art and thematic collections such as paintings of women reading. But the... (San Francisco Chronicle)
