Blue Door
I’ve always wanted a blue door. My front door is painted black. Not green or orange, but jet black. There is nothing on my door to ward off an evil eye. No knocker to say you’ve arrived. My black door is cool. But it’s not blue.
Creativity Explored – Visual art center for people with disabilities
I got busted by a flat foot last week, but not before I snagged these photos of artist Daniel Green's work showing in an exhibition of developmentally challenged folk of the arts organization Creativity Explored in San Francisco. The building I work in (which is an open/public access space in the Financial District) collaborates with …
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Moving Behind Moses Project – 11 months down, 6 more to go
I didn't think I was going to get this grant because there appeared to be a poet purist on the selection committee who didn't think a visual artist/poet/playwright/karate black belt/samba dancer/Berkeley MBA making a living in finance would ever pool it off – "not going to happen," she told her fellow judges/jurists. She used Paul …
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UC Berkeley “Lost” Sargent Johnson Art – Million $ Relief “$Found” for $150.00 then Reacquired by the Huntington Library
This is an amazing report of a 22 foot relief by celebrated African American artist tied to the Bay Area "lost" to one of the school's storage stacks, sold for the pre-tax price of $150.00 then resold to the Huntington library – its first major acquisition of an African American artist. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/arts/design/art-by-sargent-johnson-berkeleys-loss-is-museums-gain.html?sq=sargent%20johnson&st=cse&adxnnl=1&scp=1&adxnnlx=1329890593-5MP8NaOLMk/sf9zpdimRiA
SFMOMA | Explore Modern Art | Our Collection | Sargent Johnson | Forever Free
SFMOMA | Explore Modern Art | Our Collection | Sargent Johnson | Forever Free
Artist Mark Bradford – collaging a life with paper/glue/string – retrospective now at SFMOMA/YBC Feb 18 – Jun 17
I have to admit I was somewhat skeptical of SFMOMA’s full page ad in The Examiner announcing Mark Bradford’s concurrent show with Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; skeptical of what I would actually see on their white walls. “Mark Bradford’s lush, richly textured, large-scale works express the energy of the urban environment through layers …
The Art of Self Adornment – Henna
I snapped this in Marrakesh; our guide pointed to the small crowd in a nonchalant way at the same time trying to be informative as a zookeeper is informative about the mating rituals of monkeys. It was his tone, the undertone if you will, describing this thing that women do – henna. These women were …
Missing Morocco
I miss Morocco. The breadth and call five times a day. The men who almost look like me, their hair like mine. I miss the push of the street, the meat, the vegetables, the village dust. I miss the mint tea, the no protein for breakfast but perhaps a little yoghurt and an egg. I …
Black History Month – Busting Jim Crow Tennis
My great uncle is famous for losing. It was a big loss and a historical win at the same time. He lost to this man – Don Budge grand slam champ in 1940. Uncle Jimmy was the ATA tennis champ at the time. I wonder what it is like to be a famous loser/winner? …
Black History Month – Celebrating Our Warrior Women
I took this picture while during research at Arlington Memorial, the site of the Women in Military Service for America memorial. I found this beautiful warrior glaring, thinking. I don’t know where she is, I don’t know where she was going. I imagine her in a helicopter enroute to a mission with her comrades, or …
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