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Belafonte cited Pablo Picasso and his artist friend Charles White among the visual and performing artists whose support of social justice movements inspired his activism

The photo archives of Ebony and Jet magazines will be studied and digitised by Los Angeles’s Getty Research Institute and Washington, DC’s National Museum of African American History and Culture

National of Gallery of Art also plans to open its West Building in Washington, DC

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Kevin Young, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York, will succeed Lonnie G. Bunch III

From freedom papers on view at the National Museum of African American History and Culture to Isaac Julien's film about famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass

From Google Arts & Culture's digital platform exploring the culture of black experience to the Smithsonian's new Talking About Race portal

Plus, remembering Christo—the art world's wrap star. Produced in association with Christie's

Goal of online portal is to spur dialogue about racism and its “corrosive impact”

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The director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture is the first African American, and first historian, to lead the organisation

She is “relaxed and very stylish” in the portrait

Smithsonian institution was inaugurated by President Obama in 2016