“This mural is a fusion between the history of the Black Hawk Jazz Cafe, BLM, and the ancestral roots of the Ohlone peoples and my ancestral Mochica culture.” –Adrian Arias
Billie Holiday sang at the Black Hawk Jazz Cafe on her final West Coast club tour. Miles Davis recorded two live performances there on April 21 and 22, 1961.
“Her Secret is Patience”
I became slightly obsessed with this Janet Echelman sculpture in downtown Phoenix. At night it glows in different colors. ||Echelman.com || So I went to her Twitter feed and guess who had a retweet! @cmonstah Theworldisthissmall Her installation in Vancouver looks otherwordly and magnificent. Can’t wait to see it one day in person. There is one in SFO as well: “Every Beating Second”
S. Ross Browne
Ummm…I am so VERY into this right now!
But Black people in period or fantasy settings totally makes the stories unreal.
Also holy shit I love these.
How come I don’t run across this stuff regularly?
Because of racism and the retroactive erasure of POC in Medieval Europe. Pretty much the same reason you almost never see these works of art either unless you’re already looking for them:
Dodo and Her Brother , Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German, 1880-1938
Smith College Museum of Art
