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African arts and their influence on Picasso and Matisse at the Brooklyn Public Library

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Brooklyn Public Library, Central Branch
Brooklyn Public Library, Central Branch
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If you love art but can't afford a ticket to MoMA this weekend, don't despair. Visit the Brooklyn Public Library and let MoMA come to you. It's free!

On Saturday, April 24, the Brooklyn Public Library will host an informative lecture about African arts and European artists, "MoMA: Picasso, Matisse & Africa." Museum of Modern Art lecturer Larissa Bailiff will discuss the influential role of African arts in the work of Pablo Picasso and of North African Islamic art in the paintings of Henri Matisse. She will also examine the relationship between these two artists. Bailiff is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, specializing in 19th Century European Art, and has taught both undergraduate and graduate art history courses at Pratt and FIT.

This free public event will be held Saturday, April 24, 2010 at 4 p.m. at the Dweck Center for Contemporary Culture, located at the Brooklyn Public Library's Central Branch on Grand Army Plaza. For more information, consult the BPL Dweck Center Events Calendar online or call the library's Central Administration Office at (718) 230-2198. Get email updates on all Brooklyn Public Library events by signing up for the library's eNewsletters.

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Shannon Leigh O'Neil is a writer, archivist and rare book specialist in Brooklyn, New York. Her articles have appeared in "The New York Blade" and "HX Magazine," as well as online media. With a degree in art history from City College of New York, she also studied French and minored in classical...

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