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 Summer
Wandering 2005:
Esther Iverem drops in at the annual conference of the Assoc-
iation of African American Museums, as Black museum professionals
from around the country face both new opportunities and challenges…[more]
A Search for Truth
'Malcolm
X: A Search for Truth,' at the Schomburg Center for Research in
Black Culture in Harlem, explores the journey of our "Black,
Shining Prince"… [more]
 Black Power Now
An
exhibit at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore explores the lasting
legacy and impact of the Black Power movement on American society
and the world… [more]
 Master
Animation
Dan
Haskett, a veteran animator with three decades in the business,
designed the character Belle for "Beauty and the Beast"and
Ariel for "The Little Mermaid." He won an Emmy
for his work on "The Simpsons" and has credits for "Toy
Story," "The Prince of Egypt," a
well as for commercials and cartoons for "Sesame Street"… [more]
 'Whiteness'
on Exhibit
With
photographs, video and stuffed animals, an art exhibit examines
whiteness, race and racism. Review by Esther Iverem… [more]
 Ambassador
Art
Nigerian ambassador Ibiyinka Alao mixes art and diplomacy. By
Karen Juanita Carrillo… [more]
Black and Puerto Rican
"El Museo de Nuestra Raiz Africana" (the Museum of our
African Roots), located in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, is devoted
to the African influence on the island… [more]
Romare
Bearden Made a World
 A
startling vision greets visitors to "The Art of Romare Bearden,"
the awe-inspiring retrospective at the National Gallery of Art in
Washington, DC. At the airy mezzanine entrance to the show, a photograph
of Bearden's remarkable 1972 collage, "The Block," has
been blown up to the… [more]
what is rent-a-negro.com?
 (a
letter written by damali ayo, creator of rent-a-negro.com,
to her friends and family.) rent-a-negro.com is a conceptual
art work in the form of a web site. it's part of a "diy reparations"
approach to life. in december of last year, after some very difficult
realizations about my exhaustion, due to enormous overwork and exhausting
out-put of education to white people, and taking large amounts of
racism and racial ignorance into my system on a daily basis… [more]
Images
of Hip Hop, African Origins
and Black Fashion
  The
vibrant images by Ernie Paniccioli in "Who Shot Ya?: Three
Decades of Hip Hop Photography" are a visual history of the
artists who created the most dominant musical movement of the past
25 years. Paniccioli’s photos, which have appeared in magazines
like The Source and VIBE, are a combination of photojournalism,
snapshot and paparazzi fervor… [more]
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