#blackcreativegenius

#BisaButler #BlackArtists #BlackCreativeGenius #BlackArt #Quilts #TextileArt #FabricArt #QuiltArt #ArtLovers #ArtCollectors #BlackArtCollectors #BlackWomenArtists #BlackGirlArtGeeks🤓 #ClaireOliverGallery #BlackHistoryMonth #TraScapades https://www.instagram.com/p/B9Hd1c6g2Ek/?igshid=ac9jng50nyn9

🎨🎶🎙#ArtIsAWeapon #IfItWasntForTheBronx Bronx-born #marketing and #creative #entrepreneur @iam_setfree Free Richardson and #emcee/#actor #YasiinBey (#MosDef) launch a new art gallery @thecompound_ in my Boogie Down neighborhood. www.thecmpd.com ____________________ Via 📰 @nytimes: In the Cradle of Hip-Hop, a South Bronx Gallery Bridges a Gap. Excerpts: With it, Mr. Richardson aims to correct what he perceives as certain imbalances in the gallery system. His goal is to present artists from marginalized backgrounds and highlight mediums given short shrift by blue chip galleries. He also hopes to restore context to art forms he sees as having been exploited, like graffiti. “I feel like what I’m doing is different from the standard gallery format,” he said. “No galleries, to me, have accepted hip-hop to be a part of their DNA.” _______ "The purpose of the gallery is to say all art is equal,” Mr. Richardson said. “But we are in the borough that created hip-hop, which is the biggest art form in the world, so it’s always an extending arm. It’s always present.” ___________________ Read the full article: https://nyti.ms/2OAACC8 📷 by Devin Yalkin for The New York Times ____________________ The current exhibit "I Got a Gallery. I Got a Show." featuring famed Hip Hop #photographer @jonathanmannion's work is on view through October 12 at The Compound, 2242 Third Avenue, Bronx, NY. ☎️347-270-3125. Open daily by appointment. ____________________ #FreeRichardson #TheCompound #BlackCreativeGenius #TheBronx #NewArtGallery #SouthBronx #MottHaven #MusicAndArt #CulturalInstitution #BlackCurators #BlackGirlArtGeeks🤓 #TraScapades #ArtIsAWeapon #gentrification https://www.instagram.com/p/BofI5JTnFHH/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1oj6qv7saoe2i

💜 "His Majesty" 🎨by @hbcreativeto #acrylic and #ink on #canvaspanel #Prince4Ever #HisMajesty #HisRoyalBadness #TheBeautifulOnes #TheArtist #ArtistActivist #ArtOfficialAge #BlackCreativeGenius #Transformation #BlackMusicians #Music #3rdEye #AlwaysInMyHair #NeverNotMissingPrince #BlackExcellence #TraScapades #HBCreative

👑#ArtIsAWeapon Grateful Humbled Enlightened Honored Inspired Thank you @carriemaeweems 💐 ************* Y'all, GO SEE her exhibition "The Shape of Things" at @parkavearmory through December 31st. www.armoryonpark.org/programs_events/detail/2021_the_shape_of_things "Carrie Mae Weems, an artist who has consistently and poignantly addressed the conditions of race in the United States, will create a multi-work installation and series of performances titled The Shape of Things. Weems’ unflinching gaze at what she describes as the 'pageantry' and 'circus-like' quality of contemporary American political life find form in a series of large-scale installations and a cyclorama (a panoramic image on the inside of a cylindrical platform) of six to eight projections of new and existing film footage where Weems addresses the turmoil of current events and the 'long march forward.' Suggestive of a 19th-century carnival with dioramas based on spontaneous street memorials, peep shows, and a Pepper’s Ghost, The Shape of Things is an incisive, powerfully emotional, and critical reflection on events both deeply embedded in American culture and history and the explosive events of the past year." #TheShapeofThings #CarrieMaeWeems #BlackCreativeGenius #BlackGirlArtGeeks #ThisIsAmerica (at Park Avenue Armory) https://www.instagram.com/p/CXX8o0VA6hT/?utm_medium=tumblr

🖤🎸🎶🎹📷 #ArtIsAWeapon #BlackMusicMonth @prince & @patrice.rushen #BlackCreativeGenius "Prince wrote one of his early hits, I Want To Be Your Lover as a lovesong for Me and says so in the liner notes of the album. It was written for Me. That's where our journey starts." - reposted from @patrice.rushen #PrinceAndPatrice #PatriceRushen #IWannaBeYourLover #GeminiAndLibra #Musicians #composers #producers #SingerSongwriters #MultiInstrumentalists #MusicIsLife #TraScapades #ArtIsAWeapon #JuneIsBlackMusicMonth • • • (Photo source - pintrest; photographer unknown - please tag if you know their name so I can credit them) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBX2kw6A7Du/?igshid=uazdjfectm3y

#RICHARDPENNIMAN #LITTLERICHARD #BlackCreativeGenius #RockNRoll #BlackMusic #AmericanArt #TuttiFrutti #GoodGollyMissMolly #LongTallSally #GreatGoshAMighty #WhyDoFoolsFallInLove #TraScapades #ArtIsAWeapon https://www.instagram.com/p/CAV8145gPDd/?igshid=1xcr5i7u86css

🖤🎹✍🏿🎤🎶 #ArtIsAWeapon #BlackHistoryMonth Happy 83rd b'earthday to musical genius, "mother" @officialrobertaflack! Thank you @annkpowers for this @nprmusic #TurningtheTables piece examining Ms. Flack's music, immense impact and how she should be considered one of our greatest musical artists. It is beyond time for her to be inducted into the @rockhall. https://www.npr.org/2020/02/10/804370981/roberta-flack-the-virtuoso ___________________ Excerpt: As the only solo artist to win the Grammy for Record of the Year two years in a row — in 1973 for "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," and in 1974 for "Killing Me Softly With His Song" — she should have been granted, at the very least, a spotlight tribute during this year's televised ceremony, especially since host Alicia Keys owes Flack a considerable (and, by her, acknowledged) artistic debt. Instead, there was merely one quick shot of Flack smiling beatifically in the audience. Perhaps that cutaway did capture something: the failure of popular music's official institutions to fully track Flack's importance. She is beloved, yet underestimated, a treasure too rarely held up to the light. One reason for this, unavoidably, is racism. After the 1980s, when new radio formats and outlets like MTV did much to undo the genre-busting experiments of the previous decade, Flack continued to be a regular presence on both the black-oriented R&B and white-dominated adult contemporary charts. But the influence of this firebrand who had openly defied others' definitions of "soul" was increasingly downplayed within the emerging histories of both rock and soul. (One obvious slight: Though she has been eligible since 1994, she's never even been nominated to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.)  #RobertaFlack #BlackCreativeGenius #BlackWomenInMusic #Musician #SingerSongwriter #RnB #SoulMusic #HipHop #TraScapades #MusicIsLife #RockNRollHallOfFame https://www.instagram.com/p/B8Zzs8OA45U/?igshid=9itwr914gldk

🎂💔🎶🎤👑💜O(+> #ArtIsAWeapon #Prince4Ever #PrinceRogersNelson #BlackCreativeGenius #BlackMusicMonth #MusicIsLife #GeminiSeason Graphic reposted from Reposted from @princedayhouston https://www.instagram.com/p/ByaVdY7FHKY/?igshid=m7saxqpekiaf