In July 2021, […], Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago urged the city’s commissioners to condition city funding for Illuminate Coral Gables, a public art show, on the exclusion of two of the participating artists because of their purported political views. In order to protect the integrity of the work and reject such a blatant act of censorship, the chief curator resigned. As a result, the whole 2022 edition of the show was cancelled, depriving Coral Gables residents and visitors of a much-celebrated art event.
https://ncac.org/news/mayor-coral-gables-florida-art-censorship
Author: dig
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Untitled (A place to stand and stare, recalling tunes of ballads in a minor key)
Related : grief and the empty house of the stare.
Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic
This major exhibition, 29 January – 25 April 2010 at Tate Liverpool, (also traveled to Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, España, July – October 2010) inspired by Paul Gilroy’s seminal book The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993), identifies a hybrid culture that spans the Atlantic, connecting Africa, North and South America, The Caribbean and Europe. The exhibition is the first to trace in depth the impact of Black Atlantic culture on Modernism and will reveal how black artists and intellectuals have played a central role in the formation of Modernism from the early twentieth century to today.
I made a post before. But I have recently found the dvd of installation images, dating April 2010.
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Images, courtesy of Tate Liverpool.
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“something soothing and rhythmic and immensely pensive” – Tove Ditlevsen (Dependency was frank and rough).
“Dependency” strikes me as an inspired title for this volume, which is called “Gift” in Danish—a word that can mean “marriage” or “poison.”
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To live, according to this sense of the word, we must not only observe and learn, we must also feel; we must not be mere spectators of action, we must act; we must not describe, but be subjects of description.
There is but one solution to the intricate riddle of life; to improve ourselves, and contribute to the happiness of others. — Mary Shelley via BP.
Michael K. Williams
Every scenes with Omar in the series were great.
ARTISTS FOR HAITI : RAGGA NYC campaigns for KOURAJ
ARTISTS FOR HAITI : RELIEF AND LOVE TO OUR HAITIAN FAMILY
We, Christopher Udemezue and Carolyn Lazard of RAGGA NYC, are raising funds for LGBTQ+ Haitians who have been affected by the August 14th earthquake.
Through crowdsourcing our extended communities and offering a print sale from RAGGA NYC’s chosen family of Caribbean diaspora artists, we aim to raise $10,000 for KOURAJ, an LGBTQ+ Haitian organization providing hygiene and food kits to the 1200+ LGBTQ+ Haitians affected by the earthquake.
RAGGA NYC, a platform and network for queer Caribbean artists, has set up a GoFundMe campaign and is offering prints to the first 30 people who donate over $200, the amount needed to fund a hygiene and food kit from KOURAJ for each of Haiti’s 1200+ LGBTQ+ people who have been displaced by the August 15th earthquake.
Gofundme!!!!!!
Untitled (Gathered in the fold — for plenitude and a regimen fortifying courage)
Allons! […] We convince by our presence.
AG2021_1960438a or And always there is the being, and the not-seeing on their way to—
To break apart or alter so as to prevent normal or expected functioning — disrupt — also, throw into disorder; change the arrangement or position of — derange (From French déranger, from Old French desrengier (“throw into disorder”), from des- + rengier (“to put into line”), from reng (“line, row”), from a Germanic source. – wordnik).