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Part II: Crying Out For Africa
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Baltimore Afro-American
02-20-2004
Bearden's work as a cartoonist for the AFRO is a significant though
often-ignored piece of Black press history. We tell the story of Bearden's
unique relationship with the AFRO in a series of articles that are part of
a Black History Month special section.
"When I first started to make pictures I was particularly interested in
using art as an instrument of social change. As far as I was concerned at
the tim...
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A Look Back at the Editorial Opinions of the Afro in the Year 2000
Baltimore Afro-American
; Baltimore Afro-American 01-05-2001 A LOOK BACK AT THE EDITORIAL OPINIONS OF THE AFRO IN THE YEAR 2000 The year 2000 will go down in history for one terrible but revealing thing - it was the year the United States of America showed to the world how an election for its president can be stolen.
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A World Gone to Pieces; With His Disjointed Images, Romare Bearden Found a Powerful Connection to the Fractured Lives of African Americans
The Washington Post
; There are dozens, maybe hundreds of black faces in "The Art of Romare Bearden," a comprehensive survey of the artist that opens at the National Gallery of Art today. Bearden, who died 15 years ago at the age of 76, was a crucial figure in African American art, so there's nothing remarkable about
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An artist beyond category.(The Whitney Museum showcases the work of Romare Bearden)
The Nation
; Crossing from the first to the second room of the generous retrospective of Romare Bearden's art, on view through January 9, 2005, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, is not simply to move from one phase to another in Bearden's development; it is to leave one art historical period for another.
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Undercover to Hardcover; Warrior Milt Bearden Is Warming Up To a New Career
The Washington Post
; ... in 1994, on the eve of his retirement, and it was a rude introduction to the outside world. Milt Bearden, the article in U.S. News & World Report said, "warned {traitor Aldrich} Ames that he `was suspected of being a KGB mole.' " The accusation was untrue ...
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Romare Bearden Revealed; Romare Bearden seamlessly merged his knowledge of black culture with the tradition of the European masters, creating uniquely American works of art.(THE NATION)
Insight on the News
; Byline: Stephen Goode, INSIGHT The artist Romare Bearden made a rich, incomparable record of the black America of his time. Born Sept. 2, 1911, in Charlotte, N.C., he painted the African-Americans of the South and the stories he heard from them his whole life, decades after he left Dixie with his
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Romare Bearden's Blues; The Artist's Rich Collage of Experience
The Washington Post
; There is a glinting and a singing in the art of Romare Bearden. His pieced-together pictures-with their poignant bluesy subjects and their sudden, jagged rhythms-always make one think of melodies and blades, of music wed to sharpness. Bearden, 75, who died Saturday in New York following a stroke,
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What Bearden taught me: an interview with Branford Marsalis.(Interview)
The Nation
; Last year, the saxophonist Branford Marsalis made a record titled Romare Bearden Revealed (Rounder Records), to accompany the Bearden retrospective that opened at the National Gallery in Washington, DC, and that is now on view at the Whitney Museum in New York. Performing with his quartet and
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Art; Romare Bearden: Integrating Scholarships and Soul
The Washington Post
; Two competing truths wrestle around the pictures of Romare Bearden, whose touring retrospective opened Friday at the National Museum of American Art. One: Bearden (1912-1988) was the leading African American painter of his era. Two: To praise him in such terms, to focus on the blackness of his
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The Art of Romare Bearden.(Biography)
World and I
; Ruth Fine is curator of special projects in modern art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. In paintings, drawings, watercolors, collages, monotypes, and even stage sets, Romare Bearden reflected a wide range of interests and evoked the places he loved. (Editor's Note: The following
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THE ART OF ROMARE BEARDEN
Chicago Sun-Times
; These days, the word "multicultural" tends to trigger a certain defensiveness, wariness and even undisguised disgust. But the life and work of artist Romare Bearden stands as a glorious example of the richness and vitality that can emerge when the traditions of East and West, black and white, and
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