A RÜCKENFIGUR is a figure of a person in the foreground of a painting with their back turned to the viewer. pic.twitter.com/YkCYd0WyKZ
— Rabih Alameddine (@rabihalameddine) July 17, 2021
Saturday, July 17, 2021
Rückenfigur
Shirley Manson on Garbage’s Journey to ‘No Gods No Masters’
Thursday, July 15, 2021
Monthly Child Tax Credit Relief Payments Begin Today
Tune in as the Vice President and I deliver remarks on the start of monthly Child Tax Credit relief payments. https://t.co/qssgsJb9EX
— President Biden (@POTUS) July 15, 2021
These moments are magical. Today is Child Tax Credit day. This little Angel asked the President what his favorite ice cream was. Any guesses?! :) pic.twitter.com/8nNAne0mbf
— Ashley Williams (@ashwilliams46) July 15, 2021
Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Hey there young Americans - please get vaccinated
Hey there young Americans - please get vaccinated 👇🏿
— Karine Jean-Pierre (@KJP46) July 14, 2021
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had the honor of speaking with @POTUS today about the importance of young people getting vaccinated! check out https://t.co/r4TnB8gx3b to learn more about vaccines and to find a vaccination center near you! it’s easy, free, and so important!!! pic.twitter.com/rnM2UtRfeb
— Olivia Rodrigo (@Olivia_Rodrigo) July 15, 2021
Live Stream with T.J. Newman
Friday, July 09, 2021
Thursday, July 08, 2021
Hope to See You Saturday Night - July 10, 2021
Join us this Saturday for our first in-person event since early 2020 - an outdoor and indoor art experience centered around Recovery Justice: Being Well!
LEFT/ RIGHT/ HERE
An Outdoor Art Experience
Part of Recovery Justice: Being Well
July 10, 2021 | 7:30 – 9:30 PM
3026 Airport Ave, Santa Monica, 90405
Outdoor projections begin at 8 PM, at sunset. Lionel Popkin’s Six Positions on Uncertainty live performances in the Main Propeller Gallery are at 7:45 PM and 8:45 PM.
We will be allowing visitors into the gallery (masks required), and to view open studios, please register for faster check-in at the door.
Where is here? Can we be together? Can we find stability amidst uncertainty? Join artists Lionel Popkin, Marcus Kuiland-Nazario, Yrneh Gabon and Susie McKay Krieser, Lola del Fresno, Luciana Abait, Nicola Goode, Cognate Collective’s Market Exchange project, Debra Disman, M Susan Broussard, Melinda Smith Altshuler, Gregg Chadwick, Deborah Lynn Irmas, Rebecca Youssef, and Dan S. Wang in a one-night only interactive outdoor and indoor art experience as part of the exhibition Recovery Justice: Being Well.
Begin and end your experience with a special screening projected onto the Hanger and live performance of Popkin’s Six Positions on Uncertainty in the Propeller Gallery, contemplating a ritual to aid in both grounding oneself as well as working through the idea of social isolation due to the pandemic.
- View vinyl murals including Gabon and McKay Kreiser’s Oneness, One Mask, One Love, One Heart🖤; Fresno’s The innocents (save a million lives); and Abait’s Mattress from Displacement Series on the Hangar’s Glider Wall outdoor gallery.
- Check out Marcus Kuiland-Nazario’s Sea Change Lab project, with live performance and installation in the parking lot. ALEXANDMUSHI will be performing their Chair Conversations throughout the evening. Learn more about their performance here.
- Discover Debra Disman’s new video around self-compassion and book making, and pick up a copy of Nicola Goode’s limited edition poster with images from Board-Ups, a project documenting storefronts of Santa Monica’s business district during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests.
- Explore the handmade wares of artisan vendors from Cognate Collective’s Market Exchange project, and experience their crafting demonstrations. Learn more here: https://marketexchange.18thstreet.org/
- View Recovery Justice: Being Well, a series of artist projects on display featuring artists Sara Daleiden, Nicola Goode, Susie McKay Krieser, Marcus Kuiland-Nazario, M Susan Broussard, Lionel Popkin, Yrneh Gabon Brown, Lola del Fresno, Debra Disman, Melinda Smith Altshuler, Gregg Chadwick, Luciana Abait, Deborah Lynn Irmas, Rebecca Youssef, and Dan S. Wang.
- Enjoy food trucks and artist open studios throughout the night!
This is a live, in-person event. Masks will be required at all times indoors. Reservations are requested.
You may choose to drive through the event, but due to the June 15 California re-opening, we will also allow visitors to park and enter inside the galleries to view the exhibition Recovery Justice: Being Well, Lionel Popkin’s live performance, and artist open studios.
ABOUT ORGANIZING ARTIST LIONEL POPKIN
Lionel Popkin is an artist based in what is now called Los Angeles. He was born and raised in Indiana to an Indian mother and a Jewish father. His mixed-race and malleable identity markers place him in a questionable position in relation to the racial and social discourse created from the twin sins of genocide and slavery that formed the dominant power structures in America. As a choreographer, Popkin creates kinetic scenarios that intertwine the multiplicity of inter-cultural dialogue between the imagery and iconography of the Indian subcontinent that surrounded his youth and his post-modern Western training. His work questions how bodies, objects, and media are allowed to exist in time and space.
Popkin has been presented nationally and internationally at venues including REDCAT, Highways Performance Space, The Getty Center and The Getty Villa in Los Angeles, Danspace Project, Abrons Arts Center and Dance Theater Workshop in New York City, the Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out Series in Massachusetts, The Painted Bride and Philadelphia Dance Projects in Philadelphia, ODC in San Francisco, The Place Theater in London, and the Guongdong Modern Dance Festival in Guongzhou, China. Commissions include San Diego’s Lower Left Performance Collective, the Li Chiao-Ping Dance Company, Carolyn Hall, and Nejla Yatkin. Popkin has been a dancer in the companies of Trisha Brown, Terry Creach, and Stephanie Skura.
Popkin has received grants from the Mellon Foundation, the National Performance Network’s Creation Fund, the National Dance Project Touring Subsidy, the Center for Cultural Innovation, the Puffin Foundation, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and the Durfee Foundation. Popkin is currently a Professor of Choreography and Performance in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at UCLA.
ABOUT RECOVERY JUSTICE: BEING WELL
Recovery Justice: Being Well, aims to highlight the recent circumstances that have evolved during the pandemic (racial justice demonstrations and destruction, as well as social discontent and general disconnection) into a series of self-organized artist projects that merges the exterior and interior public spaces of City of Santa Monica property. 18th Street Airport Campus at Santa Monica Municipal Airport will be the site where artists reimagine the city and beyond in the midst of complex social unrest globally. Recovery Justice will recuperate through various means the digital and physical footprints left in a city that struggles to reclaim the seemingly peaceful environment it once had. Artists will develop a palette for making and sharing artworks responding to the street experience in safe, healing and expressive modes. This porous series is a point of departure to reconcile and redefine the concept of justice. Learn more here.
SUPPORT
Recovery Justice: Being Well is generously supported by Art of Recovery, an initiative of the City of Santa Monica Cultural Affairs, santamonica.gov/arts/artofrecovery.
Additional support comes from Los Angeles County’s WE RISE LA program. Sara Daleiden’s residency and facilitation work on these projects is generously supported by the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts. Bailiwik is also a supporting partner on this exhibition.
Wednesday, July 07, 2021
Tuesday, July 06, 2021
Happy Birthday Frida Kahlo!
Happy Heavenly BornDay 🎂 @FridaKahlo 🎨
— ArtOnArtsBlog (@ArTallks) July 6, 2021
Through her deconstruction of long-held beliefs about artistry—and her ability to express both torturous pain and unfettered joy in her art 🎨 remains one of the most enduring artists of the 20th century. @TIME
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“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought... there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed... if you are out there...know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.”― Frida Kahlo #womensart photo-N.Muray pic.twitter.com/hU5wbxIxGB
— #WOMENSART (@womensart1) July 6, 2021
Monday, July 05, 2021
America Is Back
The finale was impressive. What a great show! #July4th #nationalmall #WashingtonDC pic.twitter.com/eC6KAjI4X2
— National Mall NPS (@NationalMallNPS) July 5, 2021
Sunday, July 04, 2021
Happy Fourth of July
Time to set off some fireworks! 🎆
— Asian Art Museum (@asianartmuseum) July 4, 2021
Happy 4th of July! We hope everyone has a safe and enjoyable weekend!
📷: Fireworks on Ryogoku Bridge, by Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797 - 1858). Edo period. Print. Asian Art Museum, Gift of Elton Puffer, 2010.301. © Asian Art Museum. pic.twitter.com/Qut3TjBW7s
Saturday, July 03, 2021
Thursday, July 01, 2021
The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512–1570 Virtual Opening | Met Exhi...
Learn more about the exhibition: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions... Lead corporate sponsorship is provided by Bank of America. Major support is provided by David S. Winter. Additional funding is provided by the Sherman Fairchild Foundation, the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, Alice Cary Brown and W.L. Lyons Brown, the Gail and Parker Gilbert Fund, Laura and John Arnold, the Diane Carol Brandt Fund, the Hata International Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill, Denise and Andrew Saul, and The International Council of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. Subscribe for new content from The Met: https://www.youtube.com/user/metmuseu... #TheMet #Art #TheMetropolitanMuseumofArt #Museum #MetMedici
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
LGBTQ+ folks across the country — no matter where you are on your journey — know you are loved and accepted just as you are
To LGBTQ+ folks across the country — no matter where you are on your journey — know you are loved and accepted just as you are. pic.twitter.com/e0vpSBkwFV
— President Biden (@POTUS) June 29, 2021
Bruce Springsteen's First Night Back on Broadway
Monday, June 28, 2021
Wednesday, June 23, 2021
Song Power Baby!
Song power baby! https://t.co/BaeAkcb8ms
— Stevie Van Zandt (@StevieVanZandt) June 22, 2021
@StevieVanZandt -Checkpoint Charlie https://t.co/m8vvpDAWzq https://t.co/5RMjKtXiHn
— Gregg Chadwick (@greggchadwick) June 22, 2021
Friday, June 18, 2021
To Celebrate Juneteenth, Listen To A Reading Of The Emancipation Proclamation
Click on the audio link to hear NPR staff members read — in celebration of the June 19th holiday — the Emancipation Proclamation, and follow along below.
More from NPR at link here.
The Emancipation Proclamation
Michel Martin
By the President of the United States of America:
A Proclamation.
Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit:
Noel King
"That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free;
Sam Sanders
and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.
Rodney Carmichael
"That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof, respectively, shall then be in rebellion against the United States;
Juana Summers
and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be, in good faith, represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such State shall have participated, shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such State, and the people thereof, are not then in rebellion against the United States."
Dwane Brown
Now, therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief, of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion,
Audie Cornish
do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days, from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit:
Tonya Mosley
Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, (except the Parishes of St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James Ascension, Assumption, Terrebonne, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the City of New Orleans) Mississippi, Alabama,
Karen Grigsby Bates
Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth[)], and which excepted parts, are for the present, left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued.
Korva Coleman
And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free;
Gene Demby
and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.
Cheryl Corley
And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages.
Eric Deggans
And I further declare and make known, that such persons of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.
Ayesha Rascoe
And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Walter Ray Watson
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the eighty-seventh.
By the President: Abraham Lincoln