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Kuba Raffia cloth, made by the Kuba of present-day Democratic Republic of Congo Contemporary West African textile designs. African textiles are textiles from various locations across the African continent. Across Africa, there are many distinctive styles, techniques, dyeing methods, and decorative and functional purposes. These textiles hold ...
In Sightlines, however, Thompson presents African art as valuable in its own right, offering thoroughly researched facts pertaining to each object’s era and place of origin, and—most ...
African and African-American: Branch of the New York Public Library, exhibits of African American history, culture SculptureCenter: Long Island City: Queens: Art: Sculpture: Dedicated to experimental and innovative developments in contemporary sculpture Seguine Mansion: South Shore: Staten Island: Historic house: Mid-19th-century mansion ...
It presents exhibitions on a variety of topics related to the history, heritage and culture of Columbia County, such as early Dutch Settlers, Native American and African-American settlers, Hudson River School painters, Hudson Valley portraiture, New York-made furniture, Columbia County historical costumes and textiles, and local history events.
MoCADA was founded in 1999 by Laurie Cumbo in a building owned by the historical Bridge Street AWME Church in the heart of Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.. In 2006, MoCADA moved to its current home, an expanded space at 80 Hanson Place, at South Portland Avenue, in Fort Greene, a historically black middle-class neighborhood in Brooklyn which is home to the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) arts ...
Center for African Art Museum for African Art: Established: September 1984 () Location: 1280 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10029 U.S. Coordinates: Public transit access: New York City Subway: 110th Street Central Park North–110th Street; New York City Bus: M1, M2, M3, M4, M106 buses: Website
2006: The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene 1974–1984. Co-organized by the Grey Art Gallery and Fales Library, New York University [22] 2008: New York Cool: Painting and Sculpture from the NYU Art Collection, Grey Art Gallery, New York University [23] 2008: The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles / Recent Art
The Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture is a graduate research institute and gallery located in New York City. It is affiliated with Bard College, located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. The gallery occupies a six-story townhouse at 18 West 86th Street while the academic building and library are located at ...