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  • LA Times – Art and race at the Whitney

    In regards of the fictional artist Donelle Woolford inclusion in the 2014 Whitney Biennial.

    In the art world, inhabiting a fictional character in order to produce work is not new. Marcel Duchamp had a female alter ego called Rrose Sélavy. There is Lester Hayes, the African American artist conjured by a pair of white New York gallerists. At the 2008 Whitney Biennial there was a Miami collective called BLCK, not really a collective, but the invention of a single Haitian-born artist. And late last year, L.A.’s Launch Gallery showed the work of the Namaak Collective, a group that was allegedly founded in Amsterdam, but is actually the work of Los Angeles artists Marischa Slusarski and Britt Ehringer.

    Carolina A. Miranda at the LA Times.

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    uhaul wall

  • aipp-mdfr

    Lobby piece. To be titled.

    Lobby piece at Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Training Facility.

  • artworks

    …arrived at the museum.

  • Frederick Douglass read by Ossie Davis

    On work, payment, liberation, voice and language.

    [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/149859255″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]

    From the 1966 album “Autobiography of Frederick Douglass, Vol. 1”

    www.folkways.si.edu/ossie-davis/aut…bum/smithsonian

    Ossie Davis reads excerpts from Frederick Douglass’s autobiography, edited by Dr. Philip Foner, which traces the abolitionist and statesman’s life from early childhood through to his most significant political accomplishments. This first volume establishes the personal and educational foundation on which Douglass built his distinguished career, specifically addressing his birth into slavery, his battle to learn to read and how being forced to “drink the bitterest dregs of slavery” inspired his escape. (See also FW05526 Autobiography of Frederick Douglass, Vol. 2.)

  • Martha Nussbaum

    The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy. Also with Bill Moyer.
    via brainpickings

    On the Connections with Christopher Lydon (July 2000)

  • Drawing Papers 114 – Woods

    dp114woods
    Currently at Drawing Center

  • ethereum

    Ethereum : A Next-Generation Generalized Smart Contract and Decentralized Application Platform.

    via triplecanopy‘s commission of Primavera De Filippi and Samer Hassan, who will “create a crowdfunding system for artistic production, implemented as a Distributed Autonomous Organization (DAO) within the platform and programming language Ethereum.”

    http://pastebin.com/NCGRv74u