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Kerry James Marshall

A Portrait of the Artist As a Shadow of His Former Self, 1980

3:51 pm • 7 April 2019 • 20,564 notes

Amy Sherald The lesson of falling leaves, 2017 Collection: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Amy Sherald
The lesson of falling leaves, 2017
Collection: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

(Source: moca.org)

1:01 am • 30 March 2019 • 477 notes

Senga Nengudi R.S.V.P., 1975 Collection: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Senga Nengudi
R.S.V.P., 1975
Collection: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Though Senga Nengudi's R.S.V.P. is abstract, its forms suggest a body or body parts—limbs, breasts, buttocks, appendages, wombs. Store-bought nylon pantyhose filled with sand, knotted, stretched, and tacked to the wall mimic the elasticity of skin, tender at life's beginnings and then sagging with age and strain. It is particularly piercing that the crotch of the pantyhose, splayed out vulnerably at the sculpture's center, bears dramatic forces of tension and suspension. The cultural associations of the hosiery and its color identify the body alluded to as black and feminine. Yet the body in question also belongs to viewers: the title of the work, a commonly used French acronym, entreats viewers to "please respond." Nengudi frequently used her R.S.V.P. series in choreographed performances, where the sculptures served as restraints, props, and costumes.

12:57 am • 30 March 2019 • 178 notes

Remy Jungerman
Peepina Devil Maroon A8 (and detail), 2011
27,5 39 inch (70 x 100 cm)

7:14 pm • 6 January 2019 • 205 notes

Thierry Tian Sio Po L'image de l'occidentale dans la peinture caribéenne, 2010, 120x 150, Acrylique, aluminium, tôle, terre, vernis sur toile

Thierry Tian Sio Po
L'image de l'occidentale dans la peinture caribéenne, 2010,
120x 150, Acrylique, aluminium, tôle, terre, vernis sur toile

8:47 am • 4 January 2019 • 287 notes

Victoria Santa Cruz (Peru 1922-2014 Peru) Still from Me gritaron negra (They shouted black at me), 1978 Documentation of performance, excerpted from the documentary Victoria–Black and Woman, 1978. Director: Torgeir Wethal; producer: Odin Teatret Film...

Victoria Santa Cruz (Peru 1922-2014 Peru)
Still from Me gritaron negra (They shouted black at me), 1978
Documentation of performance, excerpted from the documentary Victoria–Black and Woman, 1978. Director: Torgeir Wethal; producer: Odin Teatret Film Video. Video, black and white, sound; 3:58 min. OTA-Odin Teatret Archives

12:54 pm • 20 November 2018 • 443 notes

Sonya Clark (Born 1967, Washington, D.C.) Twenty-one, 1998 Cloth and thread 5 ¼ x 28 inches Collection: Cranbrook Art Museum

Sonya Clark (Born 1967, Washington, D.C.)
Twenty-one, 1998
Cloth and thread
5 ¼ x 28 inches
Collection: Cranbrook Art Museum

12:26 pm • 20 November 2018 • 505 notes

Close to the Edge: The Birth of Hip-Hop Architecture

Curator: Sekou Cooke
Center for Architecture, New York
Oct 01, 2018 to Jan 12, 2019

Images: PHAT (Nathaniel Belcher, Stephen Slaughter), Harlem Ghetto Fabulous, 2003. Courtesy of the artists; Delta, Exothermic, 2010, Eindhoven, Netherlands. Courtesy of the artists; and Olalekan Jeyifous, Surface Armatures, 2014, Brooklyn. Courtesy of the artist

12:24 pm • 20 November 2018 • 146 notes

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