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¡Feliz Navidad a Todos! / A Merry Christmas to One and All!
Mi Arbolito de Navidad 2013_Toronto, Canadá
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Jesucristo, el Gran Chamán: las pinturas de Norval Morrisseau, el mejor...
Norval Morrisseau_Jesucristo el Indio_Indian Jesus Christ_1974 Sólo es que mis pinturas te recordan que eres Indio. En algún lugar, dentro, somos todos Indios. Entonces ahora cuando me hago amigo de...
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መልካም ገና ! Melkam Gena: A Merry Ethiopian Christmas!
ZP_Ethiopian Nativity Scene painted in a traditional style Proverbs, chapter 3, verses 5 and 6, from the Ethiopian Bible written in Amharic: Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto...
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ᕿᓐᓄᐊᔪᐊᖅ ᐋᓯᕙᒃ / Kenojuak Ashevak: Inuit Artist Pioneer
Kenojuak_Rabbit Eating Seaweed_1959 ᕿᓐᓄᐊᔪᐊᖅ ᐋᓯᕙᒃ (1927-2013) Kenojuak Ashevak was born in 1927 at the Inuit camp of Ikirasaq on Baffin Island in the North West Territories of Canada. She died exactly...
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“Sulijuk” – “It is true”: the drawings of Annie Pootoogook
Annie Pootoogook_Cross_2007 Annie Pootoogook, born in 1969 in Cape Dorset, North West Territories – now Kinngait, Nunavut – began drawing at the age of 28, through the encouragement of the West Baffin...
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Black History Month: Favourite Albums: 1938 – 1983
. Though Zócalo Poets is a poetry site – mainly – we are unable to resist the urge to post a Favourites list. Not a list of poems but of musical recordings; some of these are Songs, and, therefore,...
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Johnny Hartman: the great yet little known song stylist
Johnny Hartman (born John Maurice Hartman), 1923-1983, was from Louisiana but grew up in Chicago. Imagine the best qualities of Frank Sinatra’s voice from the 1940s and 1950s – tender and thoughtful,...
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Wilson Pickett: Engine Number 9
Wilson Pickett (1941-2006) was born in Alabama into a family of many kids, and a father who was working up in Detroit, Michigan. In an interview in later years Pickett described his mother during his...
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Hale Woodruff’s “Afro Emblems” and Ashanti Gold Weights
Afro Emblems by Hale Woodruff_1950_oil on linen_18 X 22 inches Hale Aspacio Woodruff (Cairo, Illinois, USA, 1900-1980) first grew interested in African art in the 1920s, when an art dealer gave him a...
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Hair’s to You: Baldheads, Dreads; Wigs & Things
. . . Okhai Ojeikere (born Johnson Donatus Aihumekeokhai Ojeikere) died just over a week ago, on February 2nd, 2014, at the age of 83. Born in 1930 in the Nigerian village of Ovbiomu-Emai, he...
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Amor y un alma vieja: “Yendo a la deriva” por Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) “Yendo a la deriva” (1970) . Yendo a la deriva En un mar de lágrimas olvidadas En un bote salvavidas Navegando para Tu amor: mi hogar. Ah ah ah… . Yendo a la deriva En un mar...
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Amor o Libertad: una canción “Soul” de los años 70: “Libre” por Deniece Williams
Deniece Williams (nacido en 1950) “Libre” (1976) . Susurrando en su oído, mi pocón mágica de Amor; diciéndole que soy sincera – y que no hay nada que es demasiado bueno para nosotros . Pero – quiero...
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Lois Mailou Jones: Pioneer and Mentor
Lois Mailou Jones_Pattern_1982 . Boston-born Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1998) was a painter, art teacher and mentor, who taught at Howard University in Washington, D.C., for almost half a century. Jones...
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Danny Simmons: Abstract Expressionism via “Oil on Smartphone”
Danny Simmons_Dreaming Eloquently_Digital print_2013 . Daniel “Danny” Simmons, Jr., is a painter from Queens, New York City. Self-taught, he used to watch his mother, an amateur painter, while she...
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Willie Cole: Neo-African sculpture with American plenty
Willie Cole_Wind mask_assemblage with hairdryers_1991 For the decade of the 1990s, Willie Cole (born 1955) was inspired principally by the archaic cast-iron steam iron. The Newark, New Jersey-born...
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“Many People – One Carnival”: J’Ouvert Morning…An’ de lime go be good !
Preparations to “play Mas’” in Port of Spain… (“J’Ouvert” or Opening Day of Trinidad and Tobago Carnival 2014 is Monday, March 3rd.) A Special Thank-You to Andre Bagoo for providing these photographs!...
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Kaiso – Calypso – Soca: Pepper It T&T-Style !
McCartha Linda Sandy-Lewis, better known as Calypso Rose_The greatest of the female Calypsonians, and still going strong in her 70s… . Through great ex-tempo performers, singers, composers and...
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Kerbel, Terada, Nauman: three Wordy conceptual artists – But Wait, There’s More!
Janice Kerbel_one page of A letter by Rodolphe Boulanger de Huchette to Emma Bovary written by Gustave Flaubert in my hand Currently, at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, Canada, there are works...
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Itee Pootoogook (1951-2014): A Tribute in Poems
Itee Pootoogook_After Midnight_coloured pencil_2007 Itee Pootoogook, an Inuk and artist from Kimmirut, Baffin Island, was born in 1951 to Ishuhungitok and Paulassie Pootoogook. His drawings are...
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La Pasión de Jesús en imágenes / The Passion in pictures
Andrea Mantegna_Lamentation over The Dead Christ_with Mother Mary and John_late 1470s Albrecht Dürer_Head of The Dead Christ_a charcoal drawing dated 1503 Duccio di Buoninsegna_Deposizione dalla...
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