Tag: Basketball

• The Art of Serendipity: James Van Der Zee & Derek Fordjour

  I love little moments of artistic serendipity.  I come across them often and they are the fuel behind this site.  Today, while looking at the work of photographer James Van Der Zee, I came across this picture: It immediately reminded me of a painting by Derek Fordjour that I fell in love with a few months ago.…

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  May 11, 2016

  Art, Art in Los Angeles, Art/Culture, black history, Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, new york, Photography, Uncategorized

  Basketball, Derek Fordjour, James Van Der Zee, painting, Photography, Playoffs, the Harlem Renaissance, the New York Renaissance, The Rens

• Artist a Day Challenge 2016-18: David Hammons

  Most of David Hammons work is aligned with assemblage (the practice of incorporating found materials in art), so this particular piece departs from his traditional aesthetic.  Despite this, the work remains contextually rooted in some of his earlier themes.  In the 1980s Hammons created the “Basketball Hoops Series” to address the myth of sport as…

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  February 18, 2016

  Art, Art in Los Angeles, Art/Culture, black history, Collecting, new york, sculpture, Uncategorized

  Arte Povera, assemblage, Basketball, Black History Month, David Hammons, Harry Edwards, Phillips, Sociology, U.C. Berkeley