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Harry Belafonte, who stormed the pop charts and smashed racial barriers in the 1950s with his highly personal brand of folk music, and who went on to become a dynamic force in the civil rights movement, died at his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He was 96.
Read MoreA group of experts — Diana Gonzalez-Duclert, Ted Chapin, Elena Zahlmann, and Diana Byer — who have all been closely involved with de Mille’s choreographic and written works, celebrate de Mille’s major contribution to American dance and its cultural heritage, and explore how these contributions are still relevant today in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of Agnes de Mille’s death in a live, online course presented by Roundtable at the 92nd Street Y.
Read MoreA wealth of never-before-seen footage in offers a gripping and intimate portrait of Thelonious Monk in Paris, 1969. The legendary pianist and composer arrives for a TV interview before his evening concert, where he is met with racist, colonialist acts both large and small.
Read MoreRapper and actor Common recently made his Broadway debut in New York Times Critic Pick “Between Riverside and Crazy.” The Pulitzer Prize winning play by Stephen Adly Guirgis enjoyed a successful, holiday season run at the Helen Hayes Theater.
Read MoreTo celebrate Black History Month this year, GME would like to share some of the many outstanding photographs by Jack Mitchell of African American artists and individuals taken during his half century professional career chronicling a unique history of creators in the fields of dance, theater, music, the fine arts, and film and television.
Read MoreThe iconoclastic figurative painter amidst the surging reign of abstract expressionist painters of the 1960, Alfred Leslie was also a noted filmmaker, especially well-known for his films THE CEDAR TAVERN (1952, from his own play of the same title), and the definitive Beat film, PULL MY DAISY (1959), made with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Frank and other luminaries from the scene.
Read MoreGME would like to share some photographs by Jack Mitchell of the artist Alex Katz alongside the exhibition, currently at the Guggenheim Museum, of 8 decades of Katz’s portraits, social scenes, and landscapes, which capture the immediacy of visual perception in his paintings.
Read MoreHugh Bell’s iconic photograph Hot Jazz (1952) was exhibited in Edward Steichen’s groundbreaking exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, The Family of Man, in 1955. Now, for the first time since then, this photograph is currently installed in MoMA”s Gallery 402, which is dedicated to the theme In and Around Harlem.
Read MoreGartenberg Media Enterprises (GME) is honored to memorialize the recent passing of Barbara Walters, who broke barriers for women as the first female co-host of the “Today” show and the first female anchor of a network evening news program, and who as an interviewer of celebrities became one herself, helping to blur the line between news and entertainment.
Read MoreGME has licensed two of Raimondo Borea’s unique, behind the scenes photos of Dave Garroway, the original host and Anchor of NBC’s TODAY for an upcoming Bear Manor Media book by Jodie Peeler, and 3 iconic jazz photographs by Hugh Bell of Thelonious Monk, Sarah Vaughan and Billie Holiday for the new edition of 'ReFraming: REFLECTIONS IN BLACK,' Deborah Willis updating of her 2000 groundbreaking pictorial collection of African American life.
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