Black Art Scene

08/29/2020

My son lost his favorite actor... 2020 has been a trying year. This is just too much.
RIP CHADWICK 🙏🏾

08/11/2020

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06/19/2020

As an immigrant, I didn’t know what Juneteenth was. It wasn’t taught in school, it wasn’t in any of the books we had to read. My friends would refer to it as ‘The Black Independence Day’. Most of them didn’t celebrate July 4th either. I was still confused. So I took it upon myself years later, to educate myself on the topic. And it was heartbreaking. And it was restoring. This year, Juneteenth hits harder than ever!
Today is also the celebration of Labor Day in Trinidad and Tobago.

06/17/2020

Betye Saar’s “The Liberation of Aunt Jemima” 1972, mixed media sculpture. A symbol of feminist art and black liberation.
has challenged this ‘mammy’ character for decades, and many others have called on to retire the character.
Peep the gun, gr***de, postcard of a mammy holding a mulatto baby & the raised fist over the postcard..
Today, after over 100 years, Aunt Jemima finally got her liberation. ✊🏾
.canada

06/12/2020

I’ve had a $100 gift card that I got for Christmas...FIVE YEARS AGO!!!...
honestly I have no idea where that s**t is🤷🏽‍♀️
But it’s time to put it to use😂✊🏾..

06/12/2020

I personally hate seeing works of art being destroyed, whether it’s books, paintings, sculptures, etc. I’m not saying the recent toppling of confederate statues are wrong, it’s usually a highlight of my day, but dressing these statues in Black or African attire may spark conversations, controversy, and it sure as hell would make those racist BIG MAD!



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I rarely get political on social media, but I guess that day has arrived. I agree that statues must be toppled and names should be changed, but I also don’t delude myself that these superficial deletions are changing the system, nor do they spark conversation, which is what our society so desperately needs right now. But THIS. THIS. As part of Jeffrey Gibson’s Brooklyn Museum exhibition “When Fire is Applied to Stone it Cracks,” he reinstalled this bronze sculpture, “Dying Indian,” 1904, at the entrance of the gallery. Gibson reflected that as a child, he saw these images of First Nation peoples, which depicted the literal destruction of their civilizations, as deeply offensive. Instead of ignoring this depiction, he makes us confront it: he alters it, adding a pair of beaded moccasins by John Murie that read: “I’m gonna run with every minute I can borrow.” Additional moccasins from a variety of First Nation cultures were displayed below, acknowledging the countless, nameless people who lost their ways of life and who’s identities have been ignored by museums. This installation was incredibly moving and my mind whirled for hours, days after seeing the show. This is what I think needs to happen with some of these remnant of white oppression.
Commission artists of color to create responses or alterations to these works. Change the system. Encourage dialogue. Foster creativity. Make us think.

06/12/2020

06/12/2020

06/10/2020

Just a few Caribbean authors you should spend some time with 📖📚
1) Sugar Is All by Annette Walwyn Michael 🇰🇳

2) Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat 🇭🇹

3) The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat 🇭🇹

4) Guerrillas by V.S. Naipaul 🇹🇹

5) Green Days By The River by Michael Anthony 🇹🇹

6) The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon 🇹🇹

07/26/2019

Looks like is ending its week on a great note by acquiring a significant portion of the archive of the Johnson Publishing Company. Thanks in part to a consortium of foundations, including and thanks to all others that were involved for making this possible.

07/14/2019

. Sad news. R.I.P. ✊🏾

06/12/2019

The world has been silent, media coverage has been little to non and what has been reported are furiously inaccurate.
This is Disheartening. & Disturbing.
Many are dead.
Hundreds wounded.
Women & children r***d.

WHEN WILL IT END!