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Park McArthur Edition One and Two Fantasies. July 15 – August 21, 2020
Category: art
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Light and dignity
Untitled (We claim the light and this dignified place for our well-being.), 2020. 15 x 10 inches.
Untitled (Light and opacity at play, near Snapper Creek), 2020. 15 x 10 inches.
Prints are available through SHOWFIELDS x Larry Ossei-Mensah.
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Feminist City, Leslie Kern
On creating the non-sexist city. Kern’s article in the Guardian.
society’s historical and ongoing ideas about the proper gender roles for men and women (organised along a narrow binary) are built right into our cities – and they still matter. They matter to me as a mother. They matter to me as a busy professor who often finds herself in strange cities, wondering if it’s OK to pop into the neighbourhood pub alone. Ask any woman who’s tried to bring a pram on to a bus, breastfeed in a park, or go for a jog at night. She intuitively understands the message the city sends her: this place is not for you.
Yet the city can be a place of great freedom. The anonymity of urban life breeds possibilities easily stifled in a claustrophobic small town or suburban enclave. Education, work, pleasure, politics: the city broadens our horizons and gives us choices our foremothers never had. Despite its hostilities, it remains our best hope for radical change.
Book by Verso.
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Kara Walker – ‘I’m an Unreliable Narrator’
via Art Resources Transfer, a nonprofit organization committed to documenting and disseminating artists’ voices and work to the broadest possible public.
- Zadie Smith: “What Do We Want History to Do to Us?” (The New York Review of Books)
- Hamza Walker: “Presenting Negro Scenes Drawn Upon My Passage…” (The Renaissance Society)
- Kara Walker on the Post-Lockdown World (Frieze)
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Photographs for Purpose
Photographs for Purpose is a fundraiser supported by the work of 68 photographers, who have agreed to sell prints of their work to benefit four organizations devoted to racial, economic, and social justice in America. We hope to draw attention to these organizations, their causes, and the role that artists play in this Country.
In support of Equal Justice Initiative, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Southerners on New Ground, and Planned Parenthood.
Organized by Kathryn Harrison and Michael Adno, Photographs for Purpose is inspired by similar efforts like The Sunny Project, Work for Workers, From Hartford With Love and Pictures for Elmhurst.
The sale is live from June 25 until July 31, 2020.
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Untitled (BLCK-We wear the mask)
PAMM “Untitled (BLCK–We wear the mask)” is part of a series of multimedia works that Miami-based artist Adler Guerrier created in 2007-2008 in the guise of “BLCK”—a fictitious collaborative comprised of artists of color ostensibly based in Miami in the late 1960s.
Guerrier imagines the group’s members living and working amid the warehouses and apartment complexes of Liberty City, a predominantly African American neighborhood that appears in a set of monochromatic photographs that hang on the wall. A monitor on the floor plays vintage video footage, establishing the tumultuous 1960s as the context. Against the wall are black-on-black wood protest signs and collaged prints inscribed with powerful yet hard to read messages jumbled with abstract imagery.
Combining the poetry of Paul Lawrence Dunbar, a speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the artist’s own meditations, the signs and the accompanying prints evoke artifacts from an era that brimmed with public demand for radical change, reminiscent of our own moment. #ShareBlackStories
Adler Guerrier. “Untitled (BLCK-We wear the mask),” 2007–08. Collection Pérez Art Museum Miami, museum purchase. © Adler Guerrier
PAMMInstallation view from Adler Guerrier : Formulating a Plot, Pérez Art Museum Miami, August 7, 2014 – January 25, 2015. Photo: Courtesy of
Miami Fine ArtStudio LHOOQ.
We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile
And mouth with myriad subtleties,Why should the world be over-wise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.We smile, but oh great Christ, our cries
Paul Laurence Dunbar
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile,
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask! -
A discurve site for us and them; civility.
Untitled (A discurve site for us and them, civility), 2020.
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Beatriz Santiago Muñoz – La Cabeza Mató a Todos
La Cabeza Mató a Todos, 2014, HD colour video with sound, 7 minutes, 30 seconds. Courtesy of the artist. A favorite in A Universe of Fragile Mirrors, at PAMM.
via This Long Century.
