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Another artist influenced by African art is Wifred Lam (1902-1982), a well-known painter of Chinese and Afro-Cuban heritage. (Wein said he stretched the exhibition's category to include the Cuban Lam.
Artist Archibald Motley's Jazz Age imagery is on display at a LACMA show. ... With about 45 paintings, ... “He was one of the few African American artists who said, ...
Kwame Brathwaite, "Sikolo Brathwaite," African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS), Harlem, ca. 1968; ... More from Kwame Brathwaite:Black Is Beautiful (Aperture, 2019) . “The phrase ‘black is ...
The artist Archibald Motley captured both the high times and cultural vibrancy of the Jazz Age, as well as graver themes of racism and injustice.
Former Mayor Lila Cockrell has over the years built an impressive collection of art by local and regional African American artists. John Coleman's paintings Trombonist and Jazz Man are in the ...
Zethembiso ‘Zethe’ Zimela hails from Empangeni, KwaZulu-Natal. Zethe is an emerging Afro-jazz artist blending jazz, soul and ...
The album. Group Theory: Black Music has echoes of all those, but is a sonically distinct new project. The album’s notes refer to two musical sources, from South African and American jazz ...