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February 4th, 2005

03:15 am - Talk(box)in' 'bout Art (mostly) Some Art On Saturday, I met up with my oldest friend Vicki [1] at the Brooklyn Museum to see Kehinde Wiley speak about his Passing/Posing exhibit. The art was amazing, and Kehinde Wiley, despite his self-professed nervousness (of which Vicki and I could find almost no trace), was really funny and interesting. The art was gorgeous - no pictures that I have found online do it justice, and I didn't bring my camera, because I thought cameras were not allowed in museums.[2] He spoke a lot about the concept of masculinity, and how in certain schools (or eras, I guess) of art, the size of the paintings was directly tied in with masculinity and power. One of the things about the paintings that doesn't come through unless you see them up close is that a lot of that beautiful background design is made up of tiny little painted sperm. Here is a really interesting article on the exhibit. ( Some Other Stuff ) Current Mood: Chocolate cake sugar high! Current Music: Gang of Four from the next office over

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