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New Voice With Plenty to Say: Kenyan Painter Michael Armitage Bridges European Traditions and East African Modernism

August 7, 2020

by VICTORIA L. VALENTINE on Aug 3, 2020 • 1:58 pm ONE OF THE MOST THOUGH-PROVOKING figures in contemporary painting, Kenyan artist Michael Armitageprobes the politics and cultural history of East Africa. His fascinating narrative scenes have a mythical quality and abstract tendencies that draw on aesthetic tensions between European traditions and East African modernism.  In early July, Armitage told the Times…

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Meet Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

July 28, 2020

Smithsonian American Art Museum An interview with the artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith Jaune Quick-To-See Smith grew up on the Flathead Reservation in Montana and traveled around the Pacific Northwest and California with her father, who was a horse trader. Smith decided she wanted to be an artist after watching a film on the French painter…

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The Laundromat Project

July 28, 2020

Art Movez_ interviews Kemi IIesanmi in an upcoming episode of Art Movez_.

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Meditation: Eckhart Tolle

July 21, 2020
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