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Layding Kaliba & Carolyn Butts Recipients Of Louis Reyes Rivera Award

A few days ago the Louis Reyes Rivera Excellence Award for Educator Artists was announced with Layding Kaliba, poet/author/activist and writer, African Voices publisher Carolyn Butts receiving the award for her arts education program Get Your Read On!Continue reading

Reading Of Harlem’s Jacob Lawrence’s ‘Migration Series’ Poetry Suite (video)

Ten celebrated poets, selected by Elizabeth Alexander, read their poems inspired by Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series at the Museum Of Modern Art (MOMA), in New York. Continue reading

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MoMA Launches Walking Tour Of Jacob Lawrence’s Harlem

The current Museum of Modern Art exhibition One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series and Other Visions of the Great Movement North expands uptown, beyond the Museum's galleries, with the launch of a self-guided walking tour that explores the Harlem that nurtured Lawrence as a young artist in the 1930s.Continue reading

HW Pick: Whitney Museum Block Party Reopening Coming

On Saturday, May 2, the Whitney will offer free admission to the Museum from 10:30 am to 10 pm and a block party on Gansevoort Street, sponsored by Macy’s. Continue reading

Fresh Eyes / Harlem Digi Tour Part Of Frieze Week 2015

Public art in Harlem is the best of both world, art and Harlem. Public Art Curator Savona Bailey-McClain is presenting Fresh Eyes, an exclusive, site-specific Harlem Digi-Tour for Frieze Week 2015. Continue reading

Duke Ellington Memorial By Robert Graham In Harlem

Robert Graham's tribute to Duke Ellington is relatively new, having been installed at the north end of Central Park in 1997.Continue reading

Crack Is Wack Mural By Keith Haring In Harlem

Potentially NYC's most famous mural, Keith Haring's 1986 piece frames a handball court at 128th Street and 2nd Avenue, serving as a permanent reminder of a crack epidemic that crippled some of the city's poorest neighborhoods.Continue reading

Harlem’s Kehinde Wiley Black Lives Reimagined (audio/video)

Harlemite and artist Kehinde Wiley talks about his current fabulous exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Continue reading

Hip-Hop’s Past On Display in New Photo Exhibit

By Souleo When photographer, Joe Conzo reflects on hip-hop’s early days one word comes to mind: innocence. During the late 1970s he began to document the birth of hip-hop in New York City ...Continue reading

Harlem’s CCCADI’s Innovative Cultural Advocacy Fellowship (update)

ICA seeks to involve and increase the number of culturally diverse advocates as emerging leaders in the fields of cultural arts, public policy, and advocacy. Continue reading

Up Close with CC Minton: Harlem After Dark

By CC Minton

Pat and Allan Harris opened the doors of Harris Harlem Brownstone on Saturday, October 25 hosting Harlem After Dark. Pat, a producer and Allan, a jazz vocalist and guitarist, were gifted two baby grand pianos and Harlem After Dark was born.

Harlem’s Franklin Gaskin (Franco the Great), 1928-

Franco the Great (born Franklin Gaskin in Panama 1928, also the Harlem Picasso) is a street artist in Harlem, New York. He earned his notoriety by painting storefront security gates in West Harlem.Continue reading

Amin Joseph Talks Acting, Marky Mark And Acting Tips (video)

Today, Harlem man Amin Joseph sent us an interview he did with KaBookit.com. Amin Joseph is a protégé of the World Famous Apollo Theater in his hometown of Harlem, New York. Continue reading

HW Pick: Harlem Street Portraits By Harvey Stein

Well-known New York photographer Harvey Stein documents the humanity and spirit of the people of Harlem in 164 beautiful black and white photographs of his new book Harlem Street Portraits taken over 22 years, from 1990 to 2012. Continue reading

Amiri Baraka Reads “The Revolutionary Theater,” 1965

Today, playwright, critic, activist, and one of the most prominent and controversial African American voices in the world of American letters, Amiri Baraka, passed over after weeks of failing health at the age of 79.Continue reading