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  • Distribution of death

    …think of racism, as, […] this kind of uneven distribution of death

    “Saidiya Hartman & Arthur Jafa in conversation”, Hammer Channel video, 00:25:57, June 06, 2019, https://channel.hammer.ucla.edu/video/601/saidiya-hartman-arthur-jafa-in-conversation

    A life lived well has mostly encountered its proper proportion of death.


    AG2019_1540385a
    Miami, February 2019.
  • 0503221911 or coordination

    … in practice this requires prodigious coordination, precision, and the best efforts of several human minds

    JD
  • Many Voices, One Diaspora—MoAD: Benefit Auction 2022

    The Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD),based in the San Francisco Bay Area, […] is uniquely positioned as one of the few museums in the world focused exclusively on African Diaspora culture and on presenting the rich cultural heritage of the people of Africa and of African descendant cultures across the globe.

    Many Voices, One Diaspora is MoAD’s benefit auction. Bidding will be open exclusively on Artsy and will close on Thursday, May 12th at 2:00pm PDT (5:00pm EDT).

    AG2020_1990583a
    Untitled (aim for living), 2021
    Archival pigment print
    19 × 13 in
    Edition 1/5
    Signed and dated in verso
    Courtesy of the artist and David Castillo Gallery

    Related: https://dig.thenextfewhours.com/blog/?p=8751

  • Daniel Joseph Martinez on Joseph Beuys

    Tuesday, November 28, 2017, 6:30 pm

    Dia:Chelsea
    535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor
    New York City


    Daniel Joseph Martinez, Three Critiques…
    From Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet As It’s Kept

  • Earth

    A plan to save the earth and bring the good life to all.

    This book covers:

    • Rewilding half the earth to absorb carbon emissions and restore biodiversity

    • A rapid transition to renewable energy, paired with drastic cuts in consumption by the world’s wealthiest

    • Global veganism to cut down on energy and land use

    • Worldwide socialist planning to efficiently and equitably manage production

    • The involvement of everyone—even you!

    Verso

    Property Will Cost Us the Earth Direct Action and the Future of the Global Climate Movement by Verso Books, edited by Jessie Kindig.

  • AG2020_2000198b2

    AG2020_2000198b2

    If she [could] dance[s]
    […],
    Under [palm] trees
    And see her image in the river
    She would know.

  • Heitor dos Prazeres

    Heitor dos Prazeres
    (b. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1898 – d. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1966)
    Sem título (A volta da roça), not dated
    [Untitled (Return from the Plantation)]
    Oil on canvas
    15.75 × 22.8 in.
    Collection Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand
    Gift of Maurício Buck, 2016
    MASP.01651
    © Patrimônio Família Heitor dos Prazeres
    Digital image courtesy of Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP)
    Heitor dos Prazeres
    Sem título (Jogo de poker), 1963
    [Untitled (Poker Game)]
    Oil on canvas
    19 × 23.37 in.
    Collection El Museo del Barrio, New York
    Gift from Gale Simmons, Craig Duncan and Lynn Tarbox in memory of Barbara Duncan,
    2007
    2007.6.45
    © Patrimônio Família Heitor dos Prazeres
    Digital Image © El Museo del Barrio, N.Y. | Photo: Martin Seck
    Heitor dos Prazeres
    Festa de São João, 1942
    [St. John’s Festival]
    Oil on canvas
    25.5 × 31.75 in.
    The Museum of Modern Art, New York
    Inter-American Fund, 773.1942
    © Patrimônio Família Heitor dos Prazeres
    Digital Image © 2018 The Museum of Modern Art, N.Y./Licensed by SCALA/Art
    Resource, NY

    via Popular Painters & Other Visionaries at El Museo del Barrio. Checklist (pdf). Youtube.


    Heitor dos Prazeres
    Untitled, 1963
    Oil on canvas
    17 9/10 × 21 7/10 inches.
    Presented by Almeida e Dale Galeria de Arte at Expo Chicago 2022.
  • Tunnel Music

    Tunnel Music by Jóhann Jóhannsson

    Sicario

    discogs.