July 23, 2016: Nina Chanel Abney and Lowery Stokes Sims on Stuart Davis and Painting Today

July 23, 2016

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July 23, 2016: Nina Chanel Abney and Lowery Stokes Sims on Stuart Davis and Painting Today

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Artist Nina Chanel Abney joins curator and scholar Lowery Stokes Sims in the Stuart Davis: In Full Swing galleries to discuss Davis’s work and its importance to artists today. Abney paints vibrant figurative works that boldly explore popular culture and issues of gender and race. As a Curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sims curated the exhibition Stuart Davis, American Painter in 1991.


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Maya Man, A Realistic Day In My Life Living In New York City

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