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‘Somebody Stole My Broken Heart,’ a 2004 acrylic and pen and ink on wove paper by Faith Ringgold, depicting a panel from her Jazz Stories series of story quilts, achieved $30,000 plus the buyer’s premium in April 2021. Ringgold will receive a gold medal for painting at the awards and induction ceremony to be held by the American Academy of Arts and Letters on May 24 in Manhattan. Image courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries

Ringgold, Unterberg, Vendler to be honored by arts academy

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‘Somebody Stole My Broken Heart,’ a 2004 acrylic and pen and ink on wove paper by Faith Ringgold, depicting a panel from her Jazz Stories series of story quilts, achieved $30,000 plus the buyer’s premium in April 2021. Ringgold will receive a gold medal for painting at the awards and induction ceremony to be held by the American Academy of Arts and Letters on May 24 in Manhattan. Image courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries

‘Somebody Stole My Broken Heart,’ a 2004 acrylic and pen and ink on wove paper by Faith Ringgold, depicting a panel from her Jazz Stories series of story quilts, achieved $30,000 plus the buyer’s premium in April 2021. Ringgold will receive a gold medal for painting at the awards and induction ceremony to be held by the American Academy of Arts and Letters on May 24 in Manhattan. Image courtesy of Swann Auction Galleries

NEW YORK (AP) – Author and visual artist Faith Ringgold, poetry critic Helen Hennessy Vendler and photographer Susan Unterberg will be honored this spring at the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ annual awards and induction ceremony. The academy, an honorary society based in Upper Manhattan, announced the awards March 16.

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Marjorie Strider, ‘Girl with Radish,’ 1963. Acrylic on laminated pine on Masonite panels, 72 by 60in. Collection of Ruth and Theodore Baum, New York / Palm Beach, Fla.

Jewish Museum focuses on crucial period in New York: 1962-1964

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Marjorie Strider, ‘Girl with Radish,’ 1963. Acrylic on laminated pine on Masonite panels, 72 by 60in. Collection of Ruth and Theodore Baum, New York / Palm Beach, Fla.

Marjorie Strider, ‘Girl with Radish,’ 1963. Acrylic on laminated pine on Masonite panels, 72 by 60in. Collection of Ruth and Theodore Baum, New York / Palm Beach, Fla.

NEW YORK — The Jewish Museum presents New York: 1962-1964, an exhibition that explores a pivotal three-year period in the history of art and culture in New York City, examining how artists living and working in New York responded to their rapidly changing world. Installed across two floors, this immersive exhibition presents more than 150 works of art — all made or seen in New York between 1962-1964 — including painting, sculpture, photography and film, alongside fashion, design, dance, poetry and ephemera. The exhibition is on view at the Jewish Museum through January 8, 2023.

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On February 23, Phaidon releases ‘Faith Ringgold: American People,’ a companion book to the Ringgold retrospective opening at the New Museum in New York.Image courtesy of Phaidon Press

Phaidon releases companion book for Faith Ringgold retrospective

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On February 23, Phaidon releases ‘Faith Ringgold: American People,’ a companion book to the Ringgold retrospective opening at the New Museum in New York.

On February 23, Phaidon releases ‘Faith Ringgold: American People,’ a companion book to the Ringgold retrospective opening at the New Museum in New York.

NEW YORK – Phaidon, in partnership with the New Museum, is pleased to present the companion volume to New York’s most complete retrospective of the art of Faith Ringgold (American, b. 1930-). Faith Ringgold: American People will be the most significant collection of scholarship on Ringgold’s work to date, bringing together more than 60 years of work. It was released in hardback on February 23, priced at $79.95.

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