Creatively Yours...

“A Movable Feast”…a video about the Barnes...

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 11:33:28 -0400

“A Movable Feast”…a video about the Barnes Collection moving from the ‘burbs to Philadelphia. Having visited the collection in the original location and after reading mixed reviews of the new location, looking forward to seeing the art in the new setting this summer

"Sometimes it’s best to stop improving yourself, and start embracing yourself instead."

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 08:13:29 -0400

“Sometimes it’s best to stop improving yourself, and start embracing yourself instead.”

- Tama J. Kieves

“Face of Africa” by Margaret Burroughs, woodcut...

Tue, 29 May 2012 08:58:21 -0400

“Face of Africa” by Margaret Burroughs, woodcut (1950s). My favorite in the Making History: 20th Century African American Art exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia through June 10, 2012. Taken at the museum.

"She was not yet the famous O’Keeffe. She was merely the local bohemian. And yet, all these..."

Tue, 29 May 2012 08:43:56 -0400

““She was not yet the famous O’Keeffe. She was merely the local bohemian. And yet, all these men, all of a different stripe… couldn’t stay away. Her secret? Loving her own life. Find the things that came her way of immense interest and animating them. No matter what was going on, it was great to be her, starring in her own true-life adventure.””

- How Georgia became O’Keefe

"Creativity does not have to be writing or painting or singing… it can be how you walk through the..."

Tue, 29 May 2012 08:31:52 -0400

“Creativity does not have to be writing or painting or singing… it can be how you walk through the day. Cultivate the art in your lifestyle and life becomes brighter and easier.”

- (via thetaoofdana)

D’Angelo…..he’s baaaaccccck….

Tue, 29 May 2012 08:26:52 -0400

D’Angelo…..he’s baaaaccccck….

thesmithian: Frederick J. Brown, an American artist who...

Tue, 22 May 2012 07:19:35 -0400

thesmithian:

Frederick J. Brown, an American artist who explored the relationship between music and painting in portraits of hundreds of jazz and blues artists, died on May 5 at his home in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was 67. …Brown occasionally painted in the abstract mode, but he was largely a figurative painter unafraid of grand projects—large-scale canvases, murals, extended series. He was known for placing his subjects, often African-Americans rendered in muted tones, against backgrounds of intense color.

more.

"Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding..."

Tue, 22 May 2012 07:10:49 -0400

“Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.”

- dream hampton (via dreamhampton1)

The invite to the screening of HBO’s new Marina Abramović The...

Sun, 20 May 2012 11:23:24 -0400

[Flash 10 is required to watch video.]

The invite to the screening of HBO’s new Marina Abramović The Artist Is Present documentary can stare at itself.

Protecting Your Love

Sun, 20 May 2012 11:11:39 -0400

thetaoofdana:

Sometimes you have to - no, all the time you have to- be careful about speaking about your relationship. There is a very intimate nature to love, and when you open it up to outside opinions you lose your intimacy. Don’t let it happen to you. Protect your relationships. Let your friends be dramatic… You can just be happy. xoxo Dana

VIDEO Donna Summer: Mac Arthur Park This song by Donna Summer...

Fri, 18 May 2012 07:11:57 -0400

VIDEO Donna Summer: Mac Arthur Park

This song by Donna Summer is my favorite next to Bad Girls. I remember when I first heard it, how I really tried to understand the lyrics and what was the business with the cake being in the rain (as any 8 or 9 year would). It was also my mother’s favorite by her…I remember her telling me that the original version of the song didn’t make sense but she loved how Donna remade it.

For some reason, I believe this song really showcases Donna’s voice best than any song she ever recorded. I will miss Donna Summer just like I miss much of the innocence of the era I grew up in. Rest in Peace, goddess….

The Studio Museum in Harlem: WATCH: The Artist's Voice feat. Kira Lynn Harris

Fri, 18 May 2012 06:59:52 -0400

The Studio Museum in Harlem: WATCH: The Artist's Voice feat. Kira Lynn Harris:

studiomuseum:

On March 29, 2012 Assistant Curator Lauren Haynes sat down with Kira Lynn Harris to discuss her current exhibition Kira Lynn Harris: The Block | Bellona. In this exhibition, Harris reimagines The Block (1971), Romare Bearden’s iconic, six-panel, eighteen-foot-long collage depicting life in…

blackartistnews: Donna Summer, Driven by the Music. Limited...

Fri, 18 May 2012 06:54:15 -0400

blackartistnews:

Donna Summer, Driven by the Music. Limited edition print. Date unknown.

blackcontemporaryart: Jean Patrick Icart-Pierre

Fri, 18 May 2012 06:49:44 -0400

blackcontemporaryart:

Jean Patrick Icart-Pierre

Baptism 1986 Marilyn Nance

Fri, 18 May 2012 06:44:50 -0400

Baptism

1986 Marilyn Nance

mskianga: UNDER THE INFLUENCE: The Art of Power &...

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 09:39:37 -0400

mskianga:

UNDER THE INFLUENCE: The Art of Power & Persuasion, opening @KEProjects on May 16th through May 20

studentofafrica:

This 1964 Chinese propaganda poster reads “Get out of Africa, American Imperialism”. My how times change.

studiomuseum: Photographs by Micah Aaron Schmidt Cover of this...

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:45:43 -0400

studiomuseum:

Photographs by Micah Aaron Schmidt

Cover of this month’s Modern Painters: Rashid Johnson

Check out Rashid’s work for last season’s iteration of The Bearden Project:
http://thebeardenproject.studiomuseum.org/rashid-johnson/

“Jean-Michel Basquiat and Rammellzee exiting Maxfield, Los...

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:41:06 -0400

“Jean-Michel Basquiat and Rammellzee exiting Maxfield, Los Angeles, 1982,” a photograph taken by Stephen Torton, who helped Rammellzee, left, mount several early exhibitions.

It could all be so simpleBut you’d rather make it...

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:33:29 -0400

It could all be so simple
But you’d rather make it hard
Loving you is like a battle
And we both end up with scars
Tell me, who I have to be
To get some reciprocity
No one loves you more than me
And no one ever will

Is this just a silly game
That forces you to act this way
Forces you to scream my name
Then pretend that you can’t stay
Tell me, who I have to be
To get some reciprocity
No one loves you more than me
And no one ever will

Hook:
No matter how I think we grow
You always seem to let me know
It ain’t workin’
It ain’t workin’
And when I try to walk away
You’d hurt yourself to make me stay
This is crazy
This is crazy

I keep letting you back in
How can I explain myself
As painful as this thing has been
I just can’t be with no one else
See I know what we got to do
You let go and I’ll let go too
‘Cause no one’s hurt me more than you
And no one ever will

Repeat Hook

Care for me, care for me
I know you care for me

There for me, there for me
Said you’d be there for me

Cry for me, cry for me
You said you’d die for me

Give to me, give to me
Why won’t you live for me
(Repeat)

Where were you? When I needed you?????

~The Ex Factor by Lauryn Hill

Silence (a poem)

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:24:56 -0400

Silence

is what you choose

to be right now

manipulating a sincere heart

cause you need to

“focus” on your reality

Elusive

is how you choose to be

refusing to be found, fading

into the brightness of the day

and the dark mystery of the night

Patient

is what you expect from me

forever smiling, never a question

or expression of my private pain

from your sudden betrayal

Oblivious

is what you are

never to fathom that my patience

is growing elusive

that my presence

is becoming an illusion

As a neglected heart

As a frozen smile

Becomes a slow burning flame of resistence

threatening to engulf us both

through your silence….