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From the New York Times:
A Gallery Featuring Only Artists of Color Feels Like Change
“Shattered Glass” at Deitch Gallery in Los Angeles has visitors returning, and artists bonding.
By Robin Pogrebin
May 11, 2021LOS ANGELES — People have come back again and again. They bring family members and friends. It isn’t often that a gallery show engenders such strong responses. But this one feels different, because every face in every painting belongs to a person of color. Every piece of art was created by a person of color. And the exhibition was organized by two young people of color curating their first major show.
“It had the feeling of a warm family gathering on a day in the park,” said Alysia Cortez, describing the first of her three visits to the show, “Shattered Glass,” at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery in Hollywood. “It is magical to see Black and brown people look at the walls and see themselves. I saw a couple show up with their pit bulls, I saw aunties come around to see what’s going on, and I saw so many kids.”
The exhibition, which runs through May 22, was assembled over the last year, when its curators — Melahn Frierson, who joined Deitch in 2018 and became director of the Los Angeles gallery in 2020, and AJ Girard, an arts educator — wanted to find a way to process all that was happening in the country around racial justice and the pandemic.
The use of the word “process” as a verb used to be restricted to the bureaucratic: “Sorry, but we are still processing your paperwork.” Now, it’s used by culturati to depict the profundity of their thinking, especially in conjunction with the preposition “around:” “…wanted to find a way to process all that was happening in the country around racial justice and the pandemic.”
But, it still sounds as boring.
… Murjoni Merriweather’s ceramic busts, with their hand-braided synthetic hair and teeth grills, depict friends and family members.
“I felt immortalized,” said Pink Siifu, a hip-hop artist Merriweather depicted in one piece, adding, “you don’t really get to see grills represented in gallery spaces. We’ve been wearing them for generations. It shows the shine; it’s a self-expression.”
For sheer beauty, Murjoni Merriweather’s grill-enhanced bust “Pink Siifu” tops even Sanford Bigger’s giant new “Oracle” statue at Rockefeller Center the way Michelangelo’s “David” topped even Donatello’s “David.” Bask in the radiance of this photo from the prestigious Deitch Gallery:
Pink Siifu is the gentleman immortalized on the left.
… “Shattered Glass” celebrates the Black body, with images like Kezia Harrell’s “Bliss: Americana Hot Mamma” depicting a reclined woman comfortable in her own size and nakedness …
… In a way, the curators suggested, the effects of the exhibition are as important as the art that’s in it. “There still exists a massive lack in images of self-affirmation and representation for people of color in traditional figurative portraiture,” the curators wrote in their prepared material for the show. “The result has forced those outside of this one-sided narrative to perceive their history through a predominantly white lens deemed as Universal. It is crucial that our community members, who have historically felt uncomfortable and unwelcome in institutional art settings, finally see themselves represented in these spaces and beyond.”
… Since society has for so long failed to question shows featuring only white artists, the exhibition seems to ask, why not similarly get used to shows with only artists of color? “It’s OK for our perspective to be dominant,” Girard said. “It’s like we dropped our anchors.”
An anonymous commenter speculates on the tax implications of the 2021 push to hype Really Ugly Black Statues:
There’s got to be better black art than the crap in the photos in the New York Times article (keep scrolling down, there are photos all through the article).
Maybe this exhibition had a sort of ghetto smell to it and no talented artists wanted to participate. And the good ones would be in New York, not Los Angeles, anyway.
Are we hearing about the “art pricing gap” yet? We must do something about black art not being bought for high-enough prices! Rich people, get to work on that. Buy some of this crap at high prices and then sent it out on “permanent loan” to the Victorville Museum of Modern Art and take a tax deduction.
I can see some fun developing in the art world where buyers overpay for black art for affirmative action reasons, and then they donate the art, and the recipient institutions call in appraisers, who at first say it’s worth nothing, and the appraisers are #cancelled on Twitter and lose all business because of that, so the art appraisal industry undergoes a sudden wokening and comes up with equitable holistic standards for appraisal (value = actual value x 100 if black artist), resulting in huge valuations for black art despite no actual market for the crap. Ultimately there will be a giant bubble. What will the IRS do? Pop it, or go along?
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That would imply that coherent groups would have their own gallery space, the article is about a gallery space with art from many races and ethnicities just not whites.
More like, Anti-Whiteness Now, Anti-Whiteness Tomorrow, Anti-Whiteness Forever!
All these folks who seriously believe their problem is oppression by the straight, white, flyover country gentiles like me--have at it!
I just want the right for those of us not buying to have our--traditional American--nation. Traditional American (i.e. white) social norms, rule-of-law, republican (limited) government, federalism, freedom of thought, inquiry, speech and association, American traditions, culture, history and heroes and two sexes.
Let us have our nation, stop dragging us into their experiment, stop insisting we bow and scrape before--and finance--their nonsense ... and i'm happy to let these folks have their rainbow hued utopia ... unencumbered by me.
Heck, not just happy, i'm thrilled at the prospect. These minoritarians running their rainbow nation without the likes of deplorable me ... will a hoot. The shitshow of the millenium.Replies: @Redmen, @1John, @obwandiyag
Are Whites allowed to visit the gallery and view the art? Can the art be sold to White buyers? Maybe it is not even appropriate for Whites to comment online about the art.
sloganapology fora boycottconcerned white folks. I've used it with the Holocaust Museum for years.Replies: @jon, @Achmed E. NewmanIt’s all very problematic,
I’m tired from the emotional labor of reading about this.
Speaking of labor, is there any way to induce early menopause is some of our women politicians, cough, AOC, cough, cough, along the lines of how labor is induced? Any doctors want to chime in?Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @The Alarmist
Definitely worth a read:
https://amgreatness.com/2021/05/12/what-needs-repairing-isnt-america-but-white-guilt/Replies: @SimplePseudonymicHandle
OT: AZ Elections Witness Testifies that Private Company Was Scanning Ballots Offsite, NOT Election Workers, Then Delivering Them to Counting Center.
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So is it all Hokusai all the time, or are East Asians honorary whites for these purposes?
Does F. Goya count as brown? He is Hispanic after all. Hmm…
Oh, I get it. It’s none of the above. It’s just crap, like most contemporary art, but with a dollop of good old fashioned Race Baiting for the lolz.
Choosy mothers choose Hiroshige:
https://toshidama.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/100_views_edo_051.jpg
(Shh! Don't tell PETA!)Replies: @additionalMike, @Dissident
https://i.ibb.co/phYq7gL/Hirshhorn-May21.jpg
Q: May is African-American month, right?
A: Every month is..
There’s got to be better black art than the crap in the photos in the New York Times article (keep scrolling down, there are photos all through the article).
Maybe this exhibition had a sort of ghetto smell to it and no talented artists wanted to participate. And the good ones would be in New York, not Los Angeles, anyway.
Are we hearing about the “art pricing gap” yet? We must do something about black art not being bought for high-enough prices! Rich people, get to work on that. Buy some of this crap at high prices and then sent it out on “permanent loan” to the Victorville Museum of Modern Art and take a tax deduction.
I can see some fun developing in the art world where buyers overpay for black art for affirmative action reasons, and then they donate the art, and the recipient institutions call in appraisers, who at first say it’s worth nothing, and the appraisers are #cancelled on Twitter and lose all business because of that, so the art appraisal industry undergoes a sudden wokening and comes up with equitable holistic standards for appraisal (value = actual value x 100 if black artist), resulting in huge valuations for black art despite no actual market for the crap. Ultimately there will be a giant bubble. What will the IRS do? Pop it, or go along?
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/19/529096175/at-110-5-million-basquiat-painting-becomes-priciest-work-ever-sold-by-a-u-s-arti
The issue of making a fuss about any artist's ethnicity and/or age can be debated endlessly:
Those interested can seek out what the late Robert Hughes had to say, quite furiously, about the ludicrously over-hyped Haitian-Dominican artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.
There actually are excellent artists of color but in the art world, whether we like the fact or not, showmen and show-women (the quite fearless Tracy Emin, for example) are often those fussed over and richly rewarded.
Is a great deal of *modern art* a gigantic confidence trick? The late charlatan-artist Manzoni canned his own excrement [Merde DÁrtiste] and publicly-funded galleries all over the world clamored to buy it.
Much of Warhol's stuff was actually done by industrious employees, just as Giotto did NOT paint every sheep or cloud in one of his paintings.Replies: @ThreeCranes, @additionalMike
Have you been at an exhibition of any kind in the last 25 years? Those are representational pieces it took some skill to make.
You should have seen the junk the studio art program at one of the local colleges used to put on display. Every once in a while the frat brothers there would offer an honest assessment of one of the outdoor pieces by unmooring it and tossing it into one of the lakes nearby. One of the more memorable indoor pieces consisted of a mess of papier-mâché mannequins on chairs with trash strewn all over the floor. It wasn't just the student's work; they'd host exhibitions by supposed art professionals that were no better. There was a local collector of contemporary art who managed to buffalo the institution into putting some of his purchases on display in various public areas. One of the administrator / perpetrators actually ordered handsome oil paintings put into storage in order to make way for things like girders bolted to pedestals. (Interestingly, there was a small art museum at that same campus under a different administrative cone; they exhibited only satisfactory work from their own collection. The music faculty there were promoters of early music and chamber music. I'm not sure the art history had a specialist in contemporary art. The rot was local to the studio art faculty).
https://www.google.com/search?q=pink+siifu&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwignInWp8fwAhUCQxUIHeAVCNQQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=822&bih=433
Look at all that white space not only on the walls (shameful enough) but ... unspeakable! ... on parts of the canvases themselves! It's unconscious internalized white supremacy.
I’ve included a photo of a work from Murjoni Merriweather, an artist who’s quoted in the article, below the more tag:
I know that would keep me coming back to the exhibit ‘again and again’.
More like, Anti-Whiteness Now, Anti-Whiteness Tomorrow, Anti-Whiteness Forever!Replies: @AnotherDad, @Polistra, @Almost Missouri, @Richard B
Admit–doesn’t bother me.
All these folks who seriously believe their problem is oppression by the straight, white, flyover country gentiles like me–have at it!
I just want the right for those of us not buying to have our–traditional American–nation. Traditional American (i.e. white) social norms, rule-of-law, republican (limited) government, federalism, freedom of thought, inquiry, speech and association, American traditions, culture, history and heroes and two sexes.
Let us have our nation, stop dragging us into their experiment, stop insisting we bow and scrape before–and finance–their nonsense … and i’m happy to let these folks have their rainbow hued utopia … unencumbered by me.
Heck, not just happy, i’m thrilled at the prospect. These minoritarians running their rainbow nation without the likes of deplorable me … will a hoot. The shitshow of the millenium.
While driving my 10-year old daughter and her friend to a soccer game, they couldn't stop talking about a Zoom class they'd just had with Ruby Bridges. I asked who she was, since I'd missed that in my 20 years of schooling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Bridges
These kids of course attend an all white/Asian grammar school, but are already being instructed to hate the evil whites in the 1950s (and earlier) who built this nation.
IMO-Having an activist like this speak to children way too young to process the brainwashing they're receiving is, in essence, proselytizing for a nihilistic religion of white self-hatred. I'm beginning to despise these insane progressives and their innate desire to destroy this society.
Basically starve I guess, right? None of that liberal safety net shit.
How do rich white people fare in your "traditional" America?
They get all they can grab, they get to do whatever they want to do, they are immune from the law, and they get to stomp their boots in the faces of all the poor white Americans, without any more of that damn liberal "regulation"--much less redistribution--getting in their way.
Got you all figgered out.
Nobody here is shocked by or cares about this colored people sponsored by jews “anti-” racist theater. I definitely appreciate your interstitial takedowns of woke white takes and insight on history instead; more of that please!
Yes, I am having some difficulty processing this!
This is all spoiled (trust funded?) white women promoting this blacks arts works only, at this art gallery. In rapture over this.
Jeffrey Deitch owns the gallery and one in NYC. Probably a Jew Deitch is one of those German Jewish names. He’s probably 45-65 Jeffrey being a very popular name for Jewish boys mid 20th century.
A White man, not a White woman. Just like all the White man presidents Vice Presidents senators congressmen and judges who imposed affirmative action desegregation and the bete noire of the MEN OF UNZ abortion on America
White Men did it.
Don’t blame White women for the fact that entire sectors of the economy such as government are denied to White men because of affirmative action discrimination. Blame the White men named Kennedy Johnson Nixon Carter Brennan Burton Humphrey who really actually imposed affirmative action on you and every other White man in America.
You and the other MEN OF UNZ are ignorant morons when you blame your lowest caste untouchable status on White woman. It was White men who did it, not White women.
Jeffrey Deitch, a White man owns that gallery.Replies: @Dissident, @Clyde, @Detroit Refugee
Does F. Goya count as brown? He is Hispanic after all. Hmm...
https://www.chillroom.co.za/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2013/07/goya_Vicente_Lopez_Y_Portanda_001-730728.jpg
Oh, I get it. It's none of the above. It's just crap, like most contemporary art, but with a dollop of good old fashioned Race Baiting for the lolz.Replies: @Cortes, @Reg Cæsar, @vinteuil
The Kezia Harrell “Bliss” piece sounds like a fourth-rate version of
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Maja_desnuda
Still, it’s great to be able to enjoy a gallery with other patrons’ devil dogs adding to the experience.
To avoid nausea, I’ve selected another piece from Miss Harrell’s oeuvre:
To my Eurocentric mind, it doesn’t quite match the work of Botticelli….
Well, something is certainly being expressed….
But I don’t think that we’ve discovered the next Bernini….
Thanks for taking the time to dredge up her artworks. For sure she is a skilled and educated artist, only gone off into wrong directions.
More like, Anti-Whiteness Now, Anti-Whiteness Tomorrow, Anti-Whiteness Forever!Replies: @AnotherDad, @Polistra, @Almost Missouri, @Richard B
Tell ya what. If it’s ‘strong responses’ you’re looking for, try mounting a whites-only exhibition.
Whoa, that’s it! That’s what art galleries have been missing all these years.
Mark my words: won’t be long before ‘target practice’ takes place in a gallery.
I will eschew the obvious pun there…
whatever. some seriously ugly stuff. i’m sure they’ll make a bundle on it.
and what’s a teeth grill anyway?
I've heard Black people, as well as various various hip-hoppity, Negro-adjacent types talking about these "grills" for "teeth" for over 30 years (since college), and I still haven't been able to figure out what they are talking about.
I think the Universe only allows a human brain to know about either Tchaikovsky...or you can know about "grills". But you can't know about both during the same lifetime.Replies: @petit bourgeois
https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/H67f0b364ef2c4dee91da0190edac0022u/Luxury-Rapper-Iced-Out-Square-CZ-Gold-Teeth-Grillz-Top-Bottom-Grills-For-Men-Women-Punk.jpg_Q90.jpg_.webp
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/d1/2d/1e/d12d1e23e8f021b2b43b2e6658d625c7.jpg
To my Eurocentric mind, it doesn't quite match the work of Botticelli....
http://www.ksvoboda.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/botticelli_birth_venus_2.jpgWell, something is certainly being expressed....
https://bglh-marketplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/FullSizeRender-121.jpg
But I don't think that we've discovered the next Bernini....
https://classconnection.s3.amazonaws.com/602/flashcards/2593602/jpg/0039_apollo_-_daphne-1451F8E4EF4313A0FFA.jpgReplies: @Clyde, @Pericles, @Alden, @mc23
Murjoni Merriweather–
Thanks for taking the time to dredge up her artworks. For sure she is a skilled and educated artist, only gone off into wrong directions.
An artist with more ambition than skill can always try to sell ugly as liberating. There are generally plenty of emperors ready to don the newest invisible clothes.
“I really have no right to be here” makes a nice
sloganapology fora boycottconcerned white folks. I’ve used it with the Holocaust Museum for years.Are Justine Trudeau and Virginia Gov. Coon-man allowed into the holy of holies as honorary POX? Jus’ aksin’….
https://assets.mica.edu/files/resources/thumb_portrait_classic_med_murjoni-merriweather-v.jpg
I know that would keep me coming back to the exhibit 'again and again'.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Wade Hampton, @ic1000
Clever ashtray, but I thought you couldn’t smoke in museums anymore.
This is something out of a James J. O’Meara piece!
OT – Welcome to LAMERICA:
Hey, maybe this is Al Gore’s “Bridge to the 21st Century”.
Great article!
Re: The comments at the end from “anonymous commenter”.
Valuing crap art was the thing way back in the late ’40s with Abstract Expressionism.
A retarded Rothko “painting” that a complete moron could produce sells for some $130 million.
Same Pollock, untold scores of others of that movement and most “modernists” – even the Picasso.
Is there a Marxist/Jewish connection here? Just asking.
False markets and false disciplines are the thing. Look at Climate Change and Black Studies.
A must-read: The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe
A retarded Rothko “painting” that a complete moron could produce sells for some $130 million.
Our CIA funding at work. Rothko was literally a CIA project to compete with the Soviets in art. He wasn't the only one, of course.
The Emperor's new paintings. Now 60 - 70 years later we are all still supposed to be in awe.
Meanwhile, it’s May at the Hirshhorn in Washington DC
Q: May is African-American month, right?
A: Every month is..
Does F. Goya count as brown? He is Hispanic after all. Hmm...
https://www.chillroom.co.za/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2013/07/goya_Vicente_Lopez_Y_Portanda_001-730728.jpg
Oh, I get it. It's none of the above. It's just crap, like most contemporary art, but with a dollop of good old fashioned Race Baiting for the lolz.Replies: @Cortes, @Reg Cæsar, @vinteuil
Choosy mothers choose Hiroshige:
(Shh! Don’t tell PETA!)
Sakata KaidōmaruReplies: @Alden
I think this is a reasonable approach. Art is about a lot of things, but one is a sense of larger identity, and Black people identify with other Black people and with images of and by Black people more so than they do with other groups. On a more pedestrian level, people gravitate toward social settings in which those of similar background predominate.
Human nature is hard to override, and requires a concerted campaign of shaming and self-loathing.
sloganapology fora boycottconcerned white folks. I've used it with the Holocaust Museum for years.Replies: @jon, @Achmed E. NewmanI’ve had a strict “No Cultural Appropriation” policy for most of my life. It’s worked out pretty good so far.
There’s an Association of African American Museums so I’m assuming there’s not exactly a shortage of such museums. The Smithsonian opened a huge one some years ago.
https://blackmuseums.org/mission/
Perhaps they could have some space for rainbow art? A very fine piece of performance art was on display in Chicago recently:
https://cwbchicago.com/2021/05/prosecutors-man-burglarized-south-loop-cellular-store-while-wearing-t-shirt-encouraging-people-to-be-kind.html
Reminds me of the shrunken head exhibits in the Pitt Rivers museum Oxford. You may have seen them in episodes of Morse, Lewis or Endeavour.
(https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fuk-england-oxfordshire-54121151&psig=AOvVaw2oFX1v_YW0nS9t6o8A8wqw&ust=1620985214080000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCJCiw-KuxvACFQAAAAAdAAAAABAJ%5D
Of course, these works or ‘art’ have now been removed:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-54121151. because we can’t have anyone thinking these ‘cultures were savage’ (eg to behead then boil captives’ heads, can we?
Truly isolated peoples have, obviously, very little to recommend them in the way of real music. Bang on that, shake this, whatever. They did what they could.
What was frightening, was the presence of the monster costumes. I can only guess that the museum gave us just a tiny piece of the real horror of some cultures, specifically from the New World and Africa. Why would people dress up in such terrifying ways? It was demonic.
Remember the old Gilligan's Island head hunters and their ridiculous get-ups? Well, we saw costumes that looked exactly like those, and apparently it's all real.Replies: @Buffalo Joe
This show is stupid. It isn’t a black American exhibition or one exploring the visual art of Chicano culture. It is simply the “no white people allowed” space. All of the flouncey academese in the world cannot make up for that lack of core identity and direction.
Using the term “people of colour” rather than “non-white” may add a layer of positivity to the concept, but underneath, the meaning is still purely negative.
Seems all so embarrassing.
I’m sure in the current year they’re teaching kids that Canadian identity is diversity, multiculturalism and face masks. Non-identity is what made us susceptible to the new identity of Globohomo. Perhaps this a similar dynamic being played on in the White/non-White axis.
“Processing” is what computers do instead of thinking. These people are turning into robots.
Segregation worked.
It can work again.
BUT, it doesn’t count when blacks whine for segregation because it’s fake: they still have to leech off Whitey for everything.
We owe all early Americans a ginormous apology for ending segregation.
Our punishment for ending segregation has been meted out, is self-evident and always worsening.
Which is probably why (((Robin Pogrebin))) wrote it.
Maybe this exhibition had a sort of ghetto smell to it and no talented artists wanted to participate. And the good ones would be in New York, not Los Angeles, anyway.
Are we hearing about the "art pricing gap" yet? We must do something about black art not being bought for high-enough prices! Rich people, get to work on that. Buy some of this crap at high prices and then sent it out on "permanent loan" to the Victorville Museum of Modern Art and take a tax deduction.
I can see some fun developing in the art world where buyers overpay for black art for affirmative action reasons, and then they donate the art, and the recipient institutions call in appraisers, who at first say it's worth nothing, and the appraisers are #cancelled on Twitter and lose all business because of that, so the art appraisal industry undergoes a sudden wokening and comes up with equitable holistic standards for appraisal (value = actual value x 100 if black artist), resulting in huge valuations for black art despite no actual market for the crap. Ultimately there will be a giant bubble. What will the IRS do? Pop it, or go along?Replies: @Neoconned, @Alfa158, @Billy Corr, @Art Deco
Don’t the zillionaires get to buy this crap & use it as a way to park money away from the IRS?
Those busts look like something a person who really doesn’t like blacks would create – certainly a white artist who produced something like this wouldn’t be praised for honoring black culture, they’d probably be slammed for caricaturizing it.
One of the things we are supposed to ignore about popular ‘black culture’ is just how trashy it is. The aggressive posturing, hedonism, flashy and loud fashion, etc. It’s always in vogue to say it is ignored by the mainstream, but there’s a good reason for it, not that the proponents want to face up to it – it’s that most people find it repulsive and unworthy of emulation.
But because blacks are sacred objects no one can say this out loud, even as it’s completely acceptable to mock the trashy and low class habits of poor whites.
I’m still collating, Ripley.
Choosy mothers choose Hiroshige:
https://toshidama.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/100_views_edo_051.jpg
(Shh! Don't tell PETA!)Replies: @additionalMike, @Dissident
Churchy’s World.
One of the things we are supposed to ignore about popular 'black culture' is just how trashy it is. The aggressive posturing, hedonism, flashy and loud fashion, etc. It's always in vogue to say it is ignored by the mainstream, but there's a good reason for it, not that the proponents want to face up to it - it's that most people find it repulsive and unworthy of emulation.
But because blacks are sacred objects no one can say this out loud, even as it's completely acceptable to mock the trashy and low class habits of poor whites.Replies: @Fluesterwitz
Anybody believing black artists to be incapable of producing art that appropriately represents black culture has now been proven wrong.
sloganapology fora boycottconcerned white folks. I've used it with the Holocaust Museum for years.Replies: @jon, @Achmed E. Newman“I really have no right to be here” sounds a whole lot better, when seen later on a viral video, than “no way I want to spend half the day around these loud obnoxious fat-ass n__-s”, so … thanks, Reg.
Ahhh am in no ways emotionally tard!
Speaking of labor, is there any way to induce early menopause is some of our women politicians, cough, AOC, cough, cough, along the lines of how labor is induced? Any doctors want to chime in?
This clownworld COVID19 pandemic might actually turn out to have a bright side.
and what's a teeth grill anyway?Replies: @photondancer, @Servant of Gla'aki, @kaganovitch, @ThreeCranes
I had to look up teeth grills too. They look like you’re wearing braces but are marginally more decorative as they’re usually made from gold. Does hip hop embrace any form of adornment that isn’t pointless and stupid? I’ve not seen any.
It would be easy to think this is all posturing. But another NYT story, by the same extremely Woke lady reporter, gives one pause.
Apparently, rich art collectors are at the moment more eager to spend millions of dollars on Artists of Color than those of pallor. That suggests they really believe in what they’re doing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/13/arts/design/auction-sothebys-basquiat-christies.html
I hope that this is a sign of a return to classical realist sensibilities.Replies: @BenjaminL
I kinda like the busts with hands. It reminds me of the Addams Family, a favorite show of my childhood.
It’s actually useful to have all that blackety black art in one place I will never step foot in. It’s like Yelp letting me know where all the “black-owned” businesses are. Very helpful. Now if Google Maps could just darkly shade areas in unfamiliar cities where I definitely don’t want take the exit after sundown. They have the data; I’m sure of it.
What’s an “arts educator”?
IT used to be called “data processing.” Back when I worked in IT 15 years ago there were still some old school IT departments that were called “data processing.”
BLACK ARTS EXHIBITION
OPEN TODAY 10AM-5PM
NO WHITES ALLOWED.
Re: The comments at the end from "anonymous commenter".
Valuing crap art was the thing way back in the late '40s with Abstract Expressionism.
A retarded Rothko "painting" that a complete moron could produce sells for some $130 million.
Same Pollock, untold scores of others of that movement and most "modernists" - even the Picasso.
Is there a Marxist/Jewish connection here? Just asking.
False markets and false disciplines are the thing. Look at Climate Change and Black Studies.
A must-read: The Painted Word by Tom WolfeReplies: @anon
Valuing crap art was the thing way back in the late ’40s with Abstract Expressionism.
A retarded Rothko “painting” that a complete moron could produce sells for some $130 million.
Our CIA funding at work. Rothko was literally a CIA project to compete with the Soviets in art. He wasn’t the only one, of course.
The Emperor’s new paintings. Now 60 – 70 years later we are all still supposed to be in awe.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/d1/2d/1e/d12d1e23e8f021b2b43b2e6658d625c7.jpg
To my Eurocentric mind, it doesn't quite match the work of Botticelli....
http://www.ksvoboda.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/botticelli_birth_venus_2.jpgWell, something is certainly being expressed....
https://bglh-marketplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/FullSizeRender-121.jpg
But I don't think that we've discovered the next Bernini....
https://classconnection.s3.amazonaws.com/602/flashcards/2593602/jpg/0039_apollo_-_daphne-1451F8E4EF4313A0FFA.jpgReplies: @Clyde, @Pericles, @Alden, @mc23
A couple of years ago I had the pleasure of sitting in the seat behind Botticelli’s Venus on a flight from Milan. Well, she had her clothes on and wore glasses but otherwise looked remarkably alike.
The movie The Adventures of Baron von Munchhausen features a scene where Venus rises from the sea. She looked just like the girl who helps out on our farm. I've never looked at her the same again. I didn't know she wore glasses. She must wear contacts when she's doing work for us.
One can easily tell that most whites have been brainwashed by the incessant drumbeat of “racism” and “discrimination” being totally a fault of “white-run society”.
A good example of “whites being their own worst enemy” is the (white) opposition to the “safe spaces” movement being advocated by “people of color”, mostly blacks.
When proposals were made at various “institutions of higher learning” to allow certain facilities (living spaces and other meeting places) to restrict admission to only “people of color”, the outcry from whites was deafening. Complaints were made by well-meaning but misguided whites that this would promote “discrimination” and “exclusion”…to which I say: “what’s wrong with that?”
There is absolutely nothing wrong with any racial and ethnic group voluntarily segregating themselves, as long as this policy is allowed “across the board” (including the right of us whites to do so as well).
Whites are missing an opportunity to restore true “freedom of association” not only for blacks, but to ourselves as well. If “people of color” can have their own exclusive facilities, so can us whites.
Of course, we will have to contend with the “elephant in the room” (jews) who are totally against any form of voluntary segregation, separation or preference, (except for themselves) as such a policy would dilute ((their)) destructive, parasitic ability to marginalize and debase societies for their own nefarious purposes.
It is interesting to note that jews reserve the right to establish their own exclusionary societies while demanding that “the rest of us (goyim)” succumb to the false, destructive siren song of “multiculturalism and diversity”.
“Zur Zeit Ihres Kitsch” is the phrase
For pretentious Black Culture these days.
And the pit bulls’ big fave
Was Narcissus the Slave
Who was chained by self-love to his gaze.
[https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fuk-england-oxfordshire-54121151&psig=AOvVaw2oFX1v_YW0nS9t6o8A8wqw&ust=1620985214080000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCJCiw-KuxvACFQAAAAAdAAAAABAJ]
Of course, these works or 'art' have now been removed:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-54121151. because we can't have anyone thinking these 'cultures were savage' (eg to behead then boil captives' heads, can we?Replies: @stillCARealist
I was able to visit the Musical Instruments Museum in Phoenix. They have the entire world represented, by continent and country, with their respective musical heritages. The observer can’t help but recognize the patterns of musical development that follow the old trade routes and the colonizing.
Truly isolated peoples have, obviously, very little to recommend them in the way of real music. Bang on that, shake this, whatever. They did what they could.
What was frightening, was the presence of the monster costumes. I can only guess that the museum gave us just a tiny piece of the real horror of some cultures, specifically from the New World and Africa. Why would people dress up in such terrifying ways? It was demonic.
Remember the old Gilligan’s Island head hunters and their ridiculous get-ups? Well, we saw costumes that looked exactly like those, and apparently it’s all real.
Maybe this exhibition had a sort of ghetto smell to it and no talented artists wanted to participate. And the good ones would be in New York, not Los Angeles, anyway.
Are we hearing about the "art pricing gap" yet? We must do something about black art not being bought for high-enough prices! Rich people, get to work on that. Buy some of this crap at high prices and then sent it out on "permanent loan" to the Victorville Museum of Modern Art and take a tax deduction.
I can see some fun developing in the art world where buyers overpay for black art for affirmative action reasons, and then they donate the art, and the recipient institutions call in appraisers, who at first say it's worth nothing, and the appraisers are #cancelled on Twitter and lose all business because of that, so the art appraisal industry undergoes a sudden wokening and comes up with equitable holistic standards for appraisal (value = actual value x 100 if black artist), resulting in huge valuations for black art despite no actual market for the crap. Ultimately there will be a giant bubble. What will the IRS do? Pop it, or go along?Replies: @Neoconned, @Alfa158, @Billy Corr, @Art Deco
Here you go:
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/19/529096175/at-110-5-million-basquiat-painting-becomes-priciest-work-ever-sold-by-a-u-s-arti
Something tells me that if well-heeled whites started buying this material for inflated prices no one would complain about cultural appropriation.
More like, Anti-Whiteness Now, Anti-Whiteness Tomorrow, Anti-Whiteness Forever!Replies: @AnotherDad, @Polistra, @Almost Missouri, @Richard B
Yes, you are technically correct. I think Steve is making the meta-point though that George Wallace’s anathematized inaugural speech from 1963, “Segregation Now, Segregation Tomorrow, Segregation Forever”, is now official policy at high-end luvvie galleries in LA.
Apparently, rich art collectors are at the moment more eager to spend millions of dollars on Artists of Color than those of pallor. That suggests they really believe in what they're doing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/13/arts/design/auction-sothebys-basquiat-christies.htmlReplies: @Almost Missouri, @Matttt, @Catdog
So … sell Chagall, buy black velvet?
To be fair, folk art has as much appeal to the general public as fine art. And faux folk art too.
Collectors and museums may be willing to pay high prices for pieces that they believe are outstanding examples of their kind.
https://images.app.goo.gl/VTe2agX66RrwEj238
Embarrassing, yes. Also, posturing.
“Aphrodite at the water hole”
from “The Rebel”
Not a trust fund White woman you misogynistic White woman hating scumbag POS may you burn in hell forever and ever.
Jeffrey Deitch owns the gallery and one in NYC. Probably a Jew Deitch is one of those German Jewish names. He’s probably 45-65 Jeffrey being a very popular name for Jewish boys mid 20th century.
A White man, not a White woman. Just like all the White man presidents Vice Presidents senators congressmen and judges who imposed affirmative action desegregation and the bete noire of the MEN OF UNZ abortion on America
White Men did it.
Don’t blame White women for the fact that entire sectors of the economy such as government are denied to White men because of affirmative action discrimination. Blame the White men named Kennedy Johnson Nixon Carter Brennan Burton Humphrey who really actually imposed affirmative action on you and every other White man in America.
You and the other MEN OF UNZ are ignorant morons when you blame your lowest caste untouchable status on White woman. It was White men who did it, not White women.
Jeffrey Deitch, a White man owns that gallery.
https://www.jalfinphoto.com/data1/images/0045001200250012.jpgLooks white to me!
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/E1M1EP/orthodox-jewish-boy-at-wailing-wall-E1M1EP.jpg
https://c7.alamy.com/comp/DGNWP4/orthodox-jewish-boy-reading-a-prayer-book-with-a-tefellin-on-his-forehand-DGNWP4.jpg
https://cdn-japantimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/f-yemenjew-a-20160322.jpgReplies: @Billy Corr
Summary-- You post lots better high IQ content than I do, than most here do.
I’m not sure why this exhibition was necessary. Latin America has a rich artistic history – just look at all the amazing baroque churches in Mexico. Sure, the best-known Mexican artists are Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, but there are many more great visual artists from colonial times to the present. Similarly, south and southeast Asia have a long tradition of visual artistry.
There are also a ton of great historic and present-day black visual artists, like Jean-Michel Basquiat and . . . . Did I mention Jean-Michel Basquiat?
Apparently, rich art collectors are at the moment more eager to spend millions of dollars on Artists of Color than those of pallor. That suggests they really believe in what they're doing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/13/arts/design/auction-sothebys-basquiat-christies.htmlReplies: @Almost Missouri, @Matttt, @Catdog
Work by black, sorry Black, artists is highly overvalued and work by more established artists is undervalued? Sounds like a money launderer’s, sorry art collector’s, dream.
Like Another Dad, I am cool with this: It lets me avoid the dreck. My heartburn is when this garbage is displayed with real art, and I have to wade through it to look at genuine talent and imagination.
Even then, the trend seems to be to crap up the display of great art with curated commentary from BIPOC, who do nothing but blow raspberries.
I have an idea how to “process” this “art”…
Apparently, rich art collectors are at the moment more eager to spend millions of dollars on Artists of Color than those of pallor. That suggests they really believe in what they're doing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/13/arts/design/auction-sothebys-basquiat-christies.htmlReplies: @Almost Missouri, @Matttt, @Catdog
Looked these guys up. Not a decent artist in the bunch, including the YTs.
I hope that this is a sign of a return to classical realist sensibilities.
No future Pope (if there ever is one) in the 31st Century is going to command that the church bells be rung because someone unearthed this crap. Truth be told I doubt the Chinese of 3021 are even going to bother to excavate the ruins.
There’s a blackety black museum off the LA Metro USC/Expo train stop. A lot of stabbings, shootings, and sexual assaults happen around there. Coincidence?
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/d1/2d/1e/d12d1e23e8f021b2b43b2e6658d625c7.jpg
To my Eurocentric mind, it doesn't quite match the work of Botticelli....
http://www.ksvoboda.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/botticelli_birth_venus_2.jpgWell, something is certainly being expressed....
https://bglh-marketplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/FullSizeRender-121.jpg
But I don't think that we've discovered the next Bernini....
https://classconnection.s3.amazonaws.com/602/flashcards/2593602/jpg/0039_apollo_-_daphne-1451F8E4EF4313A0FFA.jpgReplies: @Clyde, @Pericles, @Alden, @mc23
Simonetta Caetano Vespucci her husband’s cousin was Amerigo
This was an interesting article about the growth of black identity through collective victimhood. It’s a burgeoning beast being fed by an oversupply of white guilt. The impetus of that guilt is the mass media’s false message of societal “systemic racism.” Younger blacks derive a stronger sense of group identity which strengthens their sense of self-worth, something that hardly seems to need strengthening in 2021.
Definitely worth a read:
https://amgreatness.com/2021/05/12/what-needs-repairing-isnt-america-but-white-guilt/
The problem isn’t “white guilt”.
It’s atomization
It’s self atomization
It’s the absence of any collective ethos except for “it’s a jungle every man for himself you were warned”
It’s the breaking of the center
It’s cowardice
It’s a lack of imagination
It’s a lack of leadership and a lack of willingness to unite behind a leader or form an organization
It’s an agreement to be “white”, to check the box and agree to be the subject of ire and to be de-ethnosized - how dare bureaucrats take away our ethnicities and replace it with Procrustean “white”, but we consent to this?!
Above all it is powerful people, i.e., the Prince of Wales, appropriating the plights of minorities, to retain and grow their power at the expense of the professional class ... it is a whole helluva lot of that
It is sheer and perfectly reasonable terror of the mob and the internet labeling one “racist”
But “white guilt” ... meh
Not hardly
Probably the son or daughter of Letty Pogrebin one of the earliest feminazi icons and propagandists , even before Gloria Steinem
And father is a management side labor lawyer.
Indeed the daughter.Replies: @Clyde, @Clyde
https://assets.mica.edu/files/resources/thumb_portrait_classic_med_murjoni-merriweather-v.jpg
I know that would keep me coming back to the exhibit 'again and again'.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Wade Hampton, @ic1000
Be careful or your face will freeze that way.
Of all the formulations used by the bien pensants, “around” is by far the most annoying.
All these folks who seriously believe their problem is oppression by the straight, white, flyover country gentiles like me--have at it!
I just want the right for those of us not buying to have our--traditional American--nation. Traditional American (i.e. white) social norms, rule-of-law, republican (limited) government, federalism, freedom of thought, inquiry, speech and association, American traditions, culture, history and heroes and two sexes.
Let us have our nation, stop dragging us into their experiment, stop insisting we bow and scrape before--and finance--their nonsense ... and i'm happy to let these folks have their rainbow hued utopia ... unencumbered by me.
Heck, not just happy, i'm thrilled at the prospect. These minoritarians running their rainbow nation without the likes of deplorable me ... will a hoot. The shitshow of the millenium.Replies: @Redmen, @1John, @obwandiyag
Totally agree Another Dad.
While driving my 10-year old daughter and her friend to a soccer game, they couldn’t stop talking about a Zoom class they’d just had with Ruby Bridges. I asked who she was, since I’d missed that in my 20 years of schooling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Bridges
These kids of course attend an all white/Asian grammar school, but are already being instructed to hate the evil whites in the 1950s (and earlier) who built this nation.
IMO-Having an activist like this speak to children way too young to process the brainwashing they’re receiving is, in essence, proselytizing for a nihilistic religion of white self-hatred. I’m beginning to despise these insane progressives and their innate desire to destroy this society.
and what's a teeth grill anyway?Replies: @photondancer, @Servant of Gla'aki, @kaganovitch, @ThreeCranes
I have no idea. And it’s not like I haven’t wondered.
I’ve heard Black people, as well as various various hip-hoppity, Negro-adjacent types talking about these “grills” for “teeth” for over 30 years (since college), and I still haven’t been able to figure out what they are talking about.
I think the Universe only allows a human brain to know about either Tchaikovsky…or you can know about “grills”. But you can’t know about both during the same lifetime.
Wouldn’t like to be in that gallery when the lights go out.
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Here’s another gallery featuring only artists of colour.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/13/police-charge-29-men-child-sexual-exploitation-west-yorkshire
probably a term left over from the Mainframe era
https://deitch.com/imgapi/los-angeles/exhibitions/shattered-glass-curated-by-melahn-frierson-and-aj-girard/3.jpgReplies: @Bill B., @Anonymous, @Buffalo Joe, @Detroit Refugee, @Etruscan Film Star
I see that Merriweather who immortalized ‘Pink Siifu’ wisely decided to shun the hyper-realist route boldly taken by Goya by flatteringly the subject:
https://www.google.com/search?q=pink+siifu&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwignInWp8fwAhUCQxUIHeAVCNQQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=822&bih=433
Saint Trayvon of the Skittles had something a bit less retarded but I cannot find a picture. More hideous exhibitionism we are now required to admire because something something.
https://deitch.com/imgapi/los-angeles/exhibitions/shattered-glass-curated-by-melahn-frierson-and-aj-girard/3.jpgReplies: @Bill B., @Anonymous, @Buffalo Joe, @Detroit Refugee, @Etruscan Film Star
The painting on the lower left is titled “Oprah, Airing Out Her Differences.”
Speaking of labor, is there any way to induce early menopause is some of our women politicians, cough, AOC, cough, cough, along the lines of how labor is induced? Any doctors want to chime in?Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @The Alarmist
Not really – large doses of radiation will induce menopause, but then they induce radiation sickness and death.
I imagine we have evolved over aeons that there’s no plant, moss, animal, fish or fruit that can induce menopause early, because natural selection will have killed off susceptible people.
We’ve evolved to “be fruitful and multiply”, and Muslims in the west have found an evolutionary niche – welfare states built sixty years ago for white people plus “Islamophobia” invented as a weapon by fellow whites much more recently – and they are breeding like mad while the breeding is good.
Choosy mothers choose Hiroshige:
https://toshidama.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/100_views_edo_051.jpg
(Shh! Don't tell PETA!)Replies: @additionalMike, @Dissident
Sakata Kaidōmaru
I like the fact the article mentions that people could bring their pit bulls. Kind of a nice touch. I hope it wasn’t Michael Vick.
When I was a lad in school a common subject in history class was that of the “Canadian” identity and what exactly that meant. But all answers pretty much boiled down to “not-American.”
I’m sure in the current year they’re teaching kids that Canadian identity is diversity, multiculturalism and face masks. Non-identity is what made us susceptible to the new identity of Globohomo. Perhaps this a similar dynamic being played on in the White/non-White axis.
I kind of liked Free to be You and Me as a kid. Funny because someone just mentioned That Girl yesterday and the song we recalled from that was William Wants a Doll.
And father is a management side labor lawyer.
Jeffrey Deitch owns the gallery and one in NYC. Probably a Jew Deitch is one of those German Jewish names. He’s probably 45-65 Jeffrey being a very popular name for Jewish boys mid 20th century.
A White man, not a White woman. Just like all the White man presidents Vice Presidents senators congressmen and judges who imposed affirmative action desegregation and the bete noire of the MEN OF UNZ abortion on America
White Men did it.
Don’t blame White women for the fact that entire sectors of the economy such as government are denied to White men because of affirmative action discrimination. Blame the White men named Kennedy Johnson Nixon Carter Brennan Burton Humphrey who really actually imposed affirmative action on you and every other White man in America.
You and the other MEN OF UNZ are ignorant morons when you blame your lowest caste untouchable status on White woman. It was White men who did it, not White women.
Jeffrey Deitch, a White man owns that gallery.Replies: @Dissident, @Clyde, @Detroit Refugee
So you take the Jared Taylor position?
https://c7.alamy.com/comp/DGNWP4/orthodox-jewish-boy-reading-a-prayer-book-with-a-tefellin-on-his-forehand-DGNWP4.jpg
Looks white to me!
I hope that this is a sign of a return to classical realist sensibilities.Replies: @BenjaminL
Bingo. If art is just social convention all the way down, then why not go with the Trend Du Jour?
If there are any art collectors who want to support black artists while simultaneously upholding traditional values, they could look into Henry Ossawa Tanner:
Just love the boat with a blue background. Maybe they’re sneaking out at night to rob someone’s lobster or crab pots. Very very decorative on lemon yellow walls. Or in a room with dark pink orchids.
~ ~ ~
The Japanese woodcuts reminded me of this:
https://treadway-fws-images.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/website/auctions/items/large/3992073_1.jpg
Will Barnet (American, 1911-2012) Summer, 1986
I've heard Black people, as well as various various hip-hoppity, Negro-adjacent types talking about these "grills" for "teeth" for over 30 years (since college), and I still haven't been able to figure out what they are talking about.
I think the Universe only allows a human brain to know about either Tchaikovsky...or you can know about "grills". But you can't know about both during the same lifetime.Replies: @petit bourgeois
I first saw teeth grills when I had to park my car at a Cambodian donut shop across the street from Oakland High School on my way to campus. I think you have to live in the ghetto to appreciate the aesthetic, but to me they just make black people look stupid.
More like, Anti-Whiteness Now, Anti-Whiteness Tomorrow, Anti-Whiteness Forever!Replies: @AnotherDad, @Polistra, @Almost Missouri, @Richard B
They key word here is magic. As in the magical thinking of children.
Of course, egocentric thinking is also found at this stage of development.
From this perspective the C in POC stands for Childish.
Just like on TV.
Praising modern art is easy. You just have to say you like it.
Flattering the blegs is essential to the New Wokeness, and to survive you have to realize that compliments cost you nothing. We are all Italian waiters now.
Definitely worth a read:
https://amgreatness.com/2021/05/12/what-needs-repairing-isnt-america-but-white-guilt/Replies: @SimplePseudonymicHandle
In a perpendicular way, I very much disagree with the article.
The problem isn’t “white guilt”.
It’s atomization
It’s self atomization
It’s the absence of any collective ethos except for “it’s a jungle every man for himself you were warned”
It’s the breaking of the center
It’s cowardice
It’s a lack of imagination
It’s a lack of leadership and a lack of willingness to unite behind a leader or form an organization
It’s an agreement to be “white”, to check the box and agree to be the subject of ire and to be de-ethnosized – how dare bureaucrats take away our ethnicities and replace it with Procrustean “white”, but we consent to this?!
Above all it is powerful people, i.e., the Prince of Wales, appropriating the plights of minorities, to retain and grow their power at the expense of the professional class … it is a whole helluva lot of that
It is sheer and perfectly reasonable terror of the mob and the internet labeling one “racist”
But “white guilt” … meh
Not hardly
Do they go on about black bodies because black faces are so unappealing?
All these folks who seriously believe their problem is oppression by the straight, white, flyover country gentiles like me--have at it!
I just want the right for those of us not buying to have our--traditional American--nation. Traditional American (i.e. white) social norms, rule-of-law, republican (limited) government, federalism, freedom of thought, inquiry, speech and association, American traditions, culture, history and heroes and two sexes.
Let us have our nation, stop dragging us into their experiment, stop insisting we bow and scrape before--and finance--their nonsense ... and i'm happy to let these folks have their rainbow hued utopia ... unencumbered by me.
Heck, not just happy, i'm thrilled at the prospect. These minoritarians running their rainbow nation without the likes of deplorable me ... will a hoot. The shitshow of the millenium.Replies: @Redmen, @1John, @obwandiyag
This diversity problem, this diversity tension & conflict will NOT subside, u can take this fact to the bank. It is & has been the reality throughout history. The solution is “The Slow Cleanse aka Restoring White Homelands” article by Greg Johnson.
Speaking of labor, is there any way to induce early menopause is some of our women politicians, cough, AOC, cough, cough, along the lines of how labor is induced? Any doctors want to chime in?Replies: @YetAnotherAnon, @The Alarmist
The COVID vaxxes actually seem to trigger perios and bleeding in women already in menopause, but they also heighten severe bleeding and miscarriages in women of childbearing ages. Let’s consider that to be Plan C … fortunately, libs tend to use these vaxxes to Virtue Signal.
This clownworld COVID19 pandemic might actually turn out to have a bright side.
https://deitch.com/imgapi/los-angeles/exhibitions/shattered-glass-curated-by-melahn-frierson-and-aj-girard/3.jpgReplies: @Bill B., @Anonymous, @Buffalo Joe, @Detroit Refugee, @Etruscan Film Star
inertial, when I took art history rotund females in European art were called Rubenesque. The model in the painting on the left ate a whole lot of reubens.
That lady is super-ruebenesque, and I doubt she eats at Jewish delis. Methinks she has a diet of Texas smoked brisket and baby back ribs emanating out of Compton.
Truly isolated peoples have, obviously, very little to recommend them in the way of real music. Bang on that, shake this, whatever. They did what they could.
What was frightening, was the presence of the monster costumes. I can only guess that the museum gave us just a tiny piece of the real horror of some cultures, specifically from the New World and Africa. Why would people dress up in such terrifying ways? It was demonic.
Remember the old Gilligan's Island head hunters and their ridiculous get-ups? Well, we saw costumes that looked exactly like those, and apparently it's all real.Replies: @Buffalo Joe
stillCA, I viewed an exhibit of Samurai armour and weapons in SF years ago. The helmets with contorted face masks were bizarre and exagerated but truly fascinating to see. Maybe someone can post some photos.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/d1/2d/1e/d12d1e23e8f021b2b43b2e6658d625c7.jpg
To my Eurocentric mind, it doesn't quite match the work of Botticelli....
http://www.ksvoboda.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/botticelli_birth_venus_2.jpgWell, something is certainly being expressed....
https://bglh-marketplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/FullSizeRender-121.jpg
But I don't think that we've discovered the next Bernini....
https://classconnection.s3.amazonaws.com/602/flashcards/2593602/jpg/0039_apollo_-_daphne-1451F8E4EF4313A0FFA.jpgReplies: @Clyde, @Pericles, @Alden, @mc23
I was just scrolling through the comments when I saw the middle picture with the dreadlocks. I immediately thought it was picture of a Gorgon.
https://assets.mica.edu/files/resources/thumb_portrait_classic_med_murjoni-merriweather-v.jpg
I know that would keep me coming back to the exhibit 'again and again'.Replies: @Reg Cæsar, @Wade Hampton, @ic1000
Medusa?
Regarding the word process, how bout as used in the lyrics of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised:
“There will be no pictures of Whitney Young
Being run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process”
Damn!
It’s excellent that our enemies make the notion of racial segregation acceptable.
Sakata KaidōmaruReplies: @Alden
Thanks for the explanation. I thought it might be pornography. I love the boy’s cute little mischievous face and messy hair.
One wonders how you might react to some of William-Adolphe Bouguereau's paintings.
Ruebens are not kosher because you’re not supposed to eat meat (corned beef) and dairy (swiss cheese) together.
That lady is super-ruebenesque, and I doubt she eats at Jewish delis. Methinks she has a diet of Texas smoked brisket and baby back ribs emanating out of Compton.
Top picture is very derivative of Chardin. Great picture. Look at the wall wonderful. I really like the fact that even though it’s a modest house it’s a real dining table with a table cloth instead of uncomfortable stools at a kitchen counter. Or maybe it’s a work bench covered with a table cloth for meals. I’d like it more if the people were White. Presumably both parents are at work and grandpa’s teaching the kid good morals and manners These are virtuous hard working blacks striving for middle class values.
Just love the boat with a blue background. Maybe they’re sneaking out at night to rob someone’s lobster or crab pots. Very very decorative on lemon yellow walls. Or in a room with dark pink orchids.
Maybe this exhibition had a sort of ghetto smell to it and no talented artists wanted to participate. And the good ones would be in New York, not Los Angeles, anyway.
Are we hearing about the "art pricing gap" yet? We must do something about black art not being bought for high-enough prices! Rich people, get to work on that. Buy some of this crap at high prices and then sent it out on "permanent loan" to the Victorville Museum of Modern Art and take a tax deduction.
I can see some fun developing in the art world where buyers overpay for black art for affirmative action reasons, and then they donate the art, and the recipient institutions call in appraisers, who at first say it's worth nothing, and the appraisers are #cancelled on Twitter and lose all business because of that, so the art appraisal industry undergoes a sudden wokening and comes up with equitable holistic standards for appraisal (value = actual value x 100 if black artist), resulting in huge valuations for black art despite no actual market for the crap. Ultimately there will be a giant bubble. What will the IRS do? Pop it, or go along?Replies: @Neoconned, @Alfa158, @Billy Corr, @Art Deco
What Anon (252) had to say was interesting.
The issue of making a fuss about any artist’s ethnicity and/or age can be debated endlessly:
Those interested can seek out what the late Robert Hughes had to say, quite furiously, about the ludicrously over-hyped Haitian-Dominican artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.
There actually are excellent artists of color but in the art world, whether we like the fact or not, showmen and show-women (the quite fearless Tracy Emin, for example) are often those fussed over and richly rewarded.
Is a great deal of *modern art* a gigantic confidence trick? The late charlatan-artist Manzoni canned his own excrement [Merde DÁrtiste] and publicly-funded galleries all over the world clamored to buy it.
Much of Warhol’s stuff was actually done by industrious employees, just as Giotto did NOT paint every sheep or cloud in one of his paintings.
Canned Manzoni sono buoni.
Wouldn’t that be cultural appropriation?
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https://www.jalfinphoto.com/data1/images/0045001200250012.jpgLooks white to me!
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/E1M1EP/orthodox-jewish-boy-at-wailing-wall-E1M1EP.jpg
https://c7.alamy.com/comp/DGNWP4/orthodox-jewish-boy-reading-a-prayer-book-with-a-tefellin-on-his-forehand-DGNWP4.jpg
https://cdn-japantimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/f-yemenjew-a-20160322.jpgReplies: @Billy Corr
The second photograph depicts Yemeni or Iraqi or maybe Moroccan Jews.
and what's a teeth grill anyway?Replies: @photondancer, @Servant of Gla'aki, @kaganovitch, @ThreeCranes
Here you go
Probably the son or daughter of Letty Pogrebin
Indeed the daughter.
Jeffrey Deitch owns the gallery and one in NYC. Probably a Jew Deitch is one of those German Jewish names. He’s probably 45-65 Jeffrey being a very popular name for Jewish boys mid 20th century.
A White man, not a White woman. Just like all the White man presidents Vice Presidents senators congressmen and judges who imposed affirmative action desegregation and the bete noire of the MEN OF UNZ abortion on America
White Men did it.
Don’t blame White women for the fact that entire sectors of the economy such as government are denied to White men because of affirmative action discrimination. Blame the White men named Kennedy Johnson Nixon Carter Brennan Burton Humphrey who really actually imposed affirmative action on you and every other White man in America.
You and the other MEN OF UNZ are ignorant morons when you blame your lowest caste untouchable status on White woman. It was White men who did it, not White women.
Jeffrey Deitch, a White man owns that gallery.Replies: @Dissident, @Clyde, @Detroit Refugee
Thanks! I don’t take what you said personally. You used my two sentence, quickie post for your usual jumping off point about the men-misogynists of Unz. You will not believe this, but I like your posts here. You are one of the few female dissidents at the male dominated Unz and Steve Sailer. I rate you (do not hate you) in my top ten Steve Sailer posters.
You have spilled your background in LA probation here. I respect your life history. Now go hate me because I (man of Unz) complimented you. But you will not.
Summary– You post lots better high IQ content than I do, than most here do.
Indeed the daughter.Replies: @Clyde, @Clyde
With that unique last name? An easy non-guess Kagano. Letty was in the VV for years. I saw her byline then skipped past.
Indeed the daughter.Replies: @Clyde, @Clyde
With that unique last name? An easy non-guess Kagano. Letty was in the VV for years. I saw her byline then skipped past.
https://deitch.com/imgapi/los-angeles/exhibitions/shattered-glass-curated-by-melahn-frierson-and-aj-girard/3.jpgReplies: @Bill B., @Anonymous, @Buffalo Joe, @Detroit Refugee, @Etruscan Film Star
Those three heads are hideous. I can drop a deuce that’ll rival them.
Oh really now?
One wonders how you might react to some of William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s paintings.
There are also a ton of great historic and present-day black visual artists, like Jean-Michel Basquiat and . . . . Did I mention Jean-Michel Basquiat?Replies: @Detroit Refugee
Diego Rivera. He did “The Flower Vender “. And a large mural of industrial depiction up here.
Jeffrey Deitch owns the gallery and one in NYC. Probably a Jew Deitch is one of those German Jewish names. He’s probably 45-65 Jeffrey being a very popular name for Jewish boys mid 20th century.
A White man, not a White woman. Just like all the White man presidents Vice Presidents senators congressmen and judges who imposed affirmative action desegregation and the bete noire of the MEN OF UNZ abortion on America
White Men did it.
Don’t blame White women for the fact that entire sectors of the economy such as government are denied to White men because of affirmative action discrimination. Blame the White men named Kennedy Johnson Nixon Carter Brennan Burton Humphrey who really actually imposed affirmative action on you and every other White man in America.
You and the other MEN OF UNZ are ignorant morons when you blame your lowest caste untouchable status on White woman. It was White men who did it, not White women.
Jeffrey Deitch, a White man owns that gallery.Replies: @Dissident, @Clyde, @Detroit Refugee
Can’t argue with that. You have a point.
Maybe this exhibition had a sort of ghetto smell to it and no talented artists wanted to participate. And the good ones would be in New York, not Los Angeles, anyway.
Are we hearing about the "art pricing gap" yet? We must do something about black art not being bought for high-enough prices! Rich people, get to work on that. Buy some of this crap at high prices and then sent it out on "permanent loan" to the Victorville Museum of Modern Art and take a tax deduction.
I can see some fun developing in the art world where buyers overpay for black art for affirmative action reasons, and then they donate the art, and the recipient institutions call in appraisers, who at first say it's worth nothing, and the appraisers are #cancelled on Twitter and lose all business because of that, so the art appraisal industry undergoes a sudden wokening and comes up with equitable holistic standards for appraisal (value = actual value x 100 if black artist), resulting in huge valuations for black art despite no actual market for the crap. Ultimately there will be a giant bubble. What will the IRS do? Pop it, or go along?Replies: @Neoconned, @Alfa158, @Billy Corr, @Art Deco
There’s got to be better black art than the crap in the photos in the New York Times article (keep scrolling down, there are photos all through the article).
Have you been at an exhibition of any kind in the last 25 years? Those are representational pieces it took some skill to make.
You should have seen the junk the studio art program at one of the local colleges used to put on display. Every once in a while the frat brothers there would offer an honest assessment of one of the outdoor pieces by unmooring it and tossing it into one of the lakes nearby. One of the more memorable indoor pieces consisted of a mess of papier-mâché mannequins on chairs with trash strewn all over the floor. It wasn’t just the student’s work; they’d host exhibitions by supposed art professionals that were no better. There was a local collector of contemporary art who managed to buffalo the institution into putting some of his purchases on display in various public areas. One of the administrator / perpetrators actually ordered handsome oil paintings put into storage in order to make way for things like girders bolted to pedestals. (Interestingly, there was a small art museum at that same campus under a different administrative cone; they exhibited only satisfactory work from their own collection. The music faculty there were promoters of early music and chamber music. I’m not sure the art history had a specialist in contemporary art. The rot was local to the studio art faculty).
Pericles,
The movie The Adventures of Baron von Munchhausen features a scene where Venus rises from the sea. She looked just like the girl who helps out on our farm. I’ve never looked at her the same again. I didn’t know she wore glasses. She must wear contacts when she’s doing work for us.
and what's a teeth grill anyway?Replies: @photondancer, @Servant of Gla'aki, @kaganovitch, @ThreeCranes
Seventy years ago, in 1995, teeth grills became popular with black so-called “Rap Artists”. At that time, blacks who engaged in revolutionary dialogue had to disguise their speech in code. Blacks were not allowed to make music, were, in fact, forbidden to even own a musical instrument. But the black liberation spirit could not be suppressed. Black men devised a language in which they could communicate revolutionary messages and do so in a way that the white man could not understand. To pass muster the new jargon was toneless, devoid of all melody and harmony.
Eventually, the white man realized what was going on, how the black man was doing an end run around his prohibitions. When a “Rapper” was caught in the act, both as punishment and to prevent his ever “rapping” again, all of his teeth were knocked out. Undeterred, the black man devised “the grill” as a substitute, which allowed him to both chew and to resume his revolutionary ways. Of course, when whites were around, the black man would remove the grill and adopt a “Yessur, Massa” tone.
Today, many of those grills, lovingly preserved, can be seen in the Black Liberation Wing of all of the 250 Holocaust Museums in America.
The issue of making a fuss about any artist's ethnicity and/or age can be debated endlessly:
Those interested can seek out what the late Robert Hughes had to say, quite furiously, about the ludicrously over-hyped Haitian-Dominican artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.
There actually are excellent artists of color but in the art world, whether we like the fact or not, showmen and show-women (the quite fearless Tracy Emin, for example) are often those fussed over and richly rewarded.
Is a great deal of *modern art* a gigantic confidence trick? The late charlatan-artist Manzoni canned his own excrement [Merde DÁrtiste] and publicly-funded galleries all over the world clamored to buy it.
Much of Warhol's stuff was actually done by industrious employees, just as Giotto did NOT paint every sheep or cloud in one of his paintings.Replies: @ThreeCranes, @additionalMike
Irrespective of who did what, wasn’t the point of Warhol’s stuff was that he could slap a symbol of the most quotidian object in American Life, a Campbell’s soup can for instance, on a canvas and the sophisticates of the Art World would proclaim it as avant garde?
I mean, this guy was rubbing their faces in it and they couldn’t get enough of it. Paid him to do it, in fact. They thought that the butt of the joke was the philistine deplorables in flyover country, but most artists are much more cunning and self aware than that. The joke was on the nouveau riche who were stupid enough to buy art that mocked their stupidity.
Warhol played the deplorables for suckers. He flew this dude out to mess with the yokels. Performance art, right? I’m sure they had a big laugh when his pal got back to The Factory.Replies: @Pericles
He ably describes the decay of Western art.
All these folks who seriously believe their problem is oppression by the straight, white, flyover country gentiles like me--have at it!
I just want the right for those of us not buying to have our--traditional American--nation. Traditional American (i.e. white) social norms, rule-of-law, republican (limited) government, federalism, freedom of thought, inquiry, speech and association, American traditions, culture, history and heroes and two sexes.
Let us have our nation, stop dragging us into their experiment, stop insisting we bow and scrape before--and finance--their nonsense ... and i'm happy to let these folks have their rainbow hued utopia ... unencumbered by me.
Heck, not just happy, i'm thrilled at the prospect. These minoritarians running their rainbow nation without the likes of deplorable me ... will a hoot. The shitshow of the millenium.Replies: @Redmen, @1John, @obwandiyag
How do poor white people fare in your “traditional” America?
Basically starve I guess, right? None of that liberal safety net shit.
How do rich white people fare in your “traditional” America?
They get all they can grab, they get to do whatever they want to do, they are immune from the law, and they get to stomp their boots in the faces of all the poor white Americans, without any more of that damn liberal “regulation”–much less redistribution–getting in their way.
Got you all figgered out.
Does F. Goya count as brown? He is Hispanic after all. Hmm...
https://www.chillroom.co.za/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2013/07/goya_Vicente_Lopez_Y_Portanda_001-730728.jpg
Oh, I get it. It's none of the above. It's just crap, like most contemporary art, but with a dollop of good old fashioned Race Baiting for the lolz.Replies: @Cortes, @Reg Cæsar, @vinteuil
Wow – I had no idea that Goya was capable of anything this good.
For those the Prado is the only place to go.
I did that in 1969 and my view of him (and Murillo too) was transformed.
Don’t put it past the CIA to do for black art what they did for abstract expressionism.
https://deitch.com/imgapi/los-angeles/exhibitions/shattered-glass-curated-by-melahn-frierson-and-aj-girard/3.jpgReplies: @Bill B., @Anonymous, @Buffalo Joe, @Detroit Refugee, @Etruscan Film Star
Despite the gallery’s and New York Times’s claims, this is not a fully committed non-white exhibition.
Look at all that white space not only on the walls (shameful enough) but … unspeakable! … on parts of the canvases themselves! It’s unconscious internalized white supremacy.
Yemini (/Yeminite). The boy on the far-right is darker than many B/blacks, including Barack Obama.
Warhol and company played a hilarious trick on the deplorables at the U of Utah around 1969 (don’t remember exactly when). The university paid him (including airfare, of course) for giving a presentation in a Q and A format at the student union. Drew a big crowd. This Warhol guy—mop of blond hair, shades, black leather jacket—walked out on the stage and just stood there saying nothing. People asked questions that were met with silent mugging and frowning by this guy. Don’t remember how long it went on until he walked off. People were pissed. An artsy guy I knew said he and some friends took this dude out to “drag State Street”, that is, drive up and down the major street on a Friday night. Big fun in SLC back then for high-schoolers
Warhol played the deplorables for suckers. He flew this dude out to mess with the yokels. Performance art, right? I’m sure they had a big laugh when his pal got back to The Factory.
(No bombing though.)
Nice paintings.
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The Japanese woodcuts reminded me of this:
Will Barnet (American, 1911-2012) Summer, 1986
May I recommend Jacques Barzun’s From Dawn to Decadence.
He ably describes the decay of Western art.
I can one up you on that. Back in the early 70’s there was a girl in my high school who was the incarnation of Botticelli’s Venus-without glasses. One day after school at McDonald’s she took my order (back when McDonald’s was the place to go for snacks, not meals), talk about taking your breath away-Helen of Troy! The face that launched a thousand ships!!
Eat your heart out crap artists!
‘Eatin’ a Reuben sandwich with sauerkraut
Don’t stop now, baby, let it all hang out’ — Hombres, 1967
Warhol played the deplorables for suckers. He flew this dude out to mess with the yokels. Performance art, right? I’m sure they had a big laugh when his pal got back to The Factory.Replies: @Pericles
Thomas Pynchon, last official photo taken in 1955, sent comedian Irwin Corey to accept his National Book Award in 1974.
https://dangerousminds.net/comments/thomas_pynchon_pranks_the_1974_national_book_awards_ceremony
(No bombing though.)
The issue of making a fuss about any artist's ethnicity and/or age can be debated endlessly:
Those interested can seek out what the late Robert Hughes had to say, quite furiously, about the ludicrously over-hyped Haitian-Dominican artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.
There actually are excellent artists of color but in the art world, whether we like the fact or not, showmen and show-women (the quite fearless Tracy Emin, for example) are often those fussed over and richly rewarded.
Is a great deal of *modern art* a gigantic confidence trick? The late charlatan-artist Manzoni canned his own excrement [Merde DÁrtiste] and publicly-funded galleries all over the world clamored to buy it.
Much of Warhol's stuff was actually done by industrious employees, just as Giotto did NOT paint every sheep or cloud in one of his paintings.Replies: @ThreeCranes, @additionalMike
“The late charlatan-artist Manzoni canned his own excrement [Merde DÁrtiste] and publicly-funded galleries all over the world clamored to buy it.”
Canned Manzoni sono buoni.
That’s not even one of his best works.
For those the Prado is the only place to go.
I did that in 1969 and my view of him (and Murillo too) was transformed.
How nice, a contemporary exhibition of Degenerate Art. They cannot even produce nihilistic shit without copying White DaDa shit of the 1920´s. Not even degenerate multi-sexual Hannah Höch could have been more nihilistic and destructive.