Tag: Ferguson

• Artist a Day: Lorna Simpson

  

  Lorna Simpson’s work body of multi-media work is so diverse it’s too hard to single out just one work for discussion, but I’m picking a piece she created in 2016 that I recently saw at the Tate Modern. Then and Now is an appropriated photo from the Detroit riots of 1967—a screen-printed tableau that’s split…

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  February 26, 2018

  Art, Art/Culture, Black Artists, black history, Contemporary Art, new york, Photography, Uncategorized

  Artist a Day, artist a day challenge, Black Artists, black history, Contemporary Art, Detroit Riots, Ferguson, Hauser & Wirth, Lorna Simpson, Mapping Midpoints, Theaster Gates

• Invisible Man: Reflections on Ferguson

  I am not alone in feeling the weight of this week. I don’t think there are enough words to express my frustration with what is happening right now in Ferguson, MO, however when I see this picture today taken at a Freshman orientation at Howard University, I am reminded of the realities of the unspoken burdens we bear…

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  August 15, 2014

  Art/Culture

  Ferguson, Glenn Ligon, Howard University, Invisible Man, news, Ralph Ellison