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Josef Albers: D R a (in red), 1968 - color screen print (Annex Galleries)

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Another Bauhaus Josef Albers gem, which I have coveted for a whileâŚ
Today, VBG hit 10,000 Facebook âlikesâ - thank you! To celebrate, I wanted to share the baddest picture Iâve seen all day. Found via Flickr and the Schomburg - Three Survivors of Reconstruction: M.W. Gibbs, a municipal judge in Arkansas, P.B.S. Pinchback, lieutenant governor of Louisiana and James Lewis, the collector of New Orleans port, circa 1922.
Tonightâs mini-spotlight on OF:
William H. Johnson (March 18, 1901 - 1970) is that rarest of phenomena - a great African-American artist who spent massive periods of time in Denmark and Norway in the 1930s.
Johnson married Danish textile artist Holcha Krake (April 6, 1885 - 1944, cancer) in 1930. They lived together in Denmark and Norway until they saw the writing on the wall offered by Nazism encroaching on the rest of Europe and the couple relocated to the US in 1938âŚ

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Outside the HallgrĂmskirkja, Reykjavik, Iceland. Photography by Matthew Johnson.
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Richard Serra, Union of the Torus and the Sphere, 2001. Collection of the Dia Art Foundation, New York. Image via Flickr user Grufnik.
This weekâs Modern Art Notes Podcast features Richard Serra, our greatest living sculptor. A retrospective of Serraâs drawings has just opened at its originating institution, The Menil Collection in Houston. It will be on view through June 10.
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On Kony 2012: I honestly wanted to stay as far away as possible from KONY 2012, the latest fauxtivist fad sweeping the web (remember âchange your Facebook profile pic to stop child abuseâ?), but you clearly wonât stop sending me that damn video until I say something about it, so here goes:
Stop sending me that video.
The organization behind Kony 2012 â Invisible Children Inc. â is an extremely shady nonprofit that has been called âmisleading,â ânaive,â and âdangerousâ by a Yale political science professor, and has been accused by Foreign Affairs of âmanipulat[ing] facts for strategic purposes.â They have also been criticized by the Better Business Bureau for refusing to provide information necessary to determine if IC meets the Bureauâs standards.
Additionally, IC has a low two-star rating in accountability from Charity Navigator because they wonât let their financials be independently audited. Thatâs not a good thing. In fact, itâs a very bad thing, and should make you immediately pause and reflect on where the money youâre sending them is going.
By ICâs own admission, only 31% of all the funds they receive go toward actually helping anyone [pdf]. The rest go to line the pockets of the three people in charge of the organization, to pay for their travel expenses (over $1 million in the last year alone) and to fund their filmmaking business (also over a million) â which is quite an effective way to make more money, as clearly illustrated by the fact that so many canât seem to stop forwarding their well-engineered emotional blackmail to everyone theyâve ever known.
And as far as what they do with that money:
The group is in favour of direct military intervention, and their money supports the Ugandan governmentâs army and various other military forces. Hereâs a photo of the founders of Invisible Children posing with weapons and personnel of the Sudan Peopleâs Liberation Army. Both the Ugandan army and Sudan Peopleâs Liberation Army are riddled with accusations of rape and looting, but Invisible Children defends them, arguing that the Ugandan army is âbetter equipped than that of any of the other affected countriesâ, although Kony is no longer active in Uganda and hasnât been since 2006 by their own admission. These books each refer to the rape and sexual assault that are perennial issues with the UPDF, the military group Invisible Children is defending.
Letâs not get our lines crossed: The Lordâs Resistance Army is bad news. And Joseph Kony is a very bad man, and needs to be stopped. But propping up Ugandaâs decades-old dictatorship and its military arm, which has been accused by the UN of committing unspeakable atrocities and itself facilitated the recruitment of child soldiers, is not the way to go about it.
The United States is already plenty involved in helping rout Kony and his band of psycho sycophants. Kony is on the run, having been pushed out of Uganda, and itâs likely he will soon be caught, if he isnât already dead. But killing Kony wonât fix anything, just as killing Osama bin Laden didnât end terrorism. The LRA might collapse, but, as Foreign Affairs points out, it is âa relatively small player in all of this â as much a symptom as a cause of the endemic violence.â
Myopically placing the blame for all of central Africaâs woes on Kony â even as a starting point â will only imperil many more people than are already in danger.
Sending money to a nonprofit that wants to muck things up by dousing the flames with fuel is not helping. Want to help? Really want to help? Send your money to nonprofits that are putting more than 31% toward rebuilding the regionâs medical and educational infrastructure, so that former child soldiers have something worth coming home to.
Here are just a few of those charities. They all have a sparkling four-star rating from Charity Navigator, and, more importantly, no interest in airdropping American troops armed to the teeth into the middle of a multi-nation tribal war to help one madman catch another.
The bottom line is, research your causes thoroughly. Donât just forward a random video to a stranger because a mass murderer makes a five-year-old âsad.â Learn a little bit about the complexities of the regionâs ongoing strife before advocating for direct military intervention.
There is no black and white in the world. And going about solving important problems like there is just serves to make all those equally troubling shades of gray invisible.
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Awesome Women on International Womenâs Day: Shirin Neshat.
An Iranian artist whose work examines the social and cultural place for women in Islamic society, like in her âWomen of Allahâ visual art series. She also does performance art and works with film. Neshat directed the complicated and beautiful film, âWomen Without Men,â which was an adaptation of a magical realist novel by Shahrnush Parsipur about three women in Tehran during the 1953 coup.
Shirin Neshat, Rebellious Silence, 1994. B&W RC print & ink (photo taken by Cynthia Preston); 11 x 14â/27.9 x 35.6 cm. [Via]
I was really, really excited to have Shirin Neshat on Episode No. 11 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast. Sheâs one of my artist-heroes.
Within the next generation I believe that the worldâs rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience.
aldous huxley, in a letter to george orwell. (via victortsu)