The Hugo Boss Prize 2018: Simone Leigh, Loophole of Retreat at the Guggenheim.
an act of astonishing fortitude that carved out a space of sanctuary and autonomy in defiance of an unjust reality.
The title is drawn from the writings of Harriet Jacobs (1813–1897).
Natasha Del Toro’s interview “Miami artist Adler Guerrier’s sense of place” in the New Tropic.
Untitled (longevity has it’s place)
2017
Graphite, color pencil, enamel paint and solvent transfer on paper 15 x 11.5 inches.
Elizabeth Alexander, Ph.D.
Director, Creativity and Free Expression, Ford Foundation
Introduction for Director’s Panel
U.S. Latinx Arts Futures Symposium
September 16, 2016
Event Supported by Ford Foundation
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Part of “… ongoing learning series around US Latinx art and culture. This event is hosted by Perez Art Museum Miami and ArtCenter/South Florida as part of their Latinx Art Sessions (January 24 – 25, 2019). PAAM, ACSF, and Ford Foundation.
On the Media’s Face the Racist Nation episode, kind of a re-broadcast, is gem; especially Dr. Kendi’s interview. He makes the distinctive argument for the lineage of racist’s ideas, policy, poverty, ignorance, exploitive systems and attitude, as it has been implemented in the West. His 2016 book is Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America.
“Wet Feet” is a photo series examining the metonymic traces left by individuals forced to travel illegally from the Caribbean, and who eventually reached US soil. Blackboard at Jeu de Paume. Image via IG
Kerry James Marshall, A Portrait of the Artist As a Shadow of His Former Self. Egg tempera on paper, 8 × 6 1/2 inches (20.3 × 16.5 cm)
Photo: Kerry James Marshall, A Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self, 1980/Matthew Fried/© MCA Chicago/Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York via Vulture
Childish Gambino
Published on May 5, 2018
“This is America” by Childish Gambino
Director: Hiro Murai
Producer: Doomsday with Ibra Ake and Fam Rothstein of Wolf + Rothstein