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Photograph of Howard Orphanage and Industrial School ca. 1915. The Howard Colored Orphan Asylum was one of the few orphanages to be led by and for African Americans. [1] It was located on Troy Avenue and Dean Street in Weeksville, a historically black settlement in what is now Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City. [2]
Facing History: The Black Image in American Art, 1710–1940 was the first public exhibition by a major museum to showcase depictions of African Americans in American art. [1] Facing History took place in 1990 and was held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art from January 13 through March 25, and then went to the Brooklyn Museum from April 20 through ...
Diane Arbus (1923–1971), black and white photographs of deviant and marginal people; Laura Adams Armer (1874–1963), portraiture in San Francisco, images of the Navajo; Eve Arnold (1913–2012), photojournalist with Magnum Photos; Kristen Ashburn (born 1973), photojournalist covering AIDS in southern Africa, tuberculosis and Hurricane Katrina
Told through the stories of four ordinary families from Brooklyn’s nineteenth-century Black community — the Crogers, the Hodges, the Wilsons, and the Gloucesters — it reveals not just of ...
Joseph Stella (born Giuseppe Michele Stella, June 13, 1877 – November 5, 1946) was an Italian-born American Futurist painter best known for his depictions of industrial America, especially his images of the Brooklyn Bridge. He is also associated with the American Precisionist movement of the 1910s–1940s.
These quotes by notable Black people—from celebrated authors to award-winning actors to renowned public figures—reflect their determination, achievements, wisdom, and the mantras they used or ...
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The Brooklyn Children's Museum, the world's first museum dedicated to children, opened in December 1899. The only such New York State institution accredited by the American Association of Museums , it is one of the few globally to have a permanent collection - 30,000+ cultural objects and natural history specimens.