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painting of a black man with short afro and wearing a suit & tie with dark blue jacket plays an upright bass/fiddle.

more Thomas Hart Benton
Portrait of a Musician

Video game 'reloots' stolen artefacts, by reclaiming works of art from Western museums

Johannesburg’s Nyamakop Studios turns African artifact repatriation into a bold heist game.

Protagonist Nomali and a crew of ordinary citizens reclaim 70 real-life artifacts taken during the colonial era.

The 30-person dev team includes people from Zimbabwe, Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Tanzania.

Thomas Hart Benton

Aaron

gray-scaled print of an elderly man with presumably black facial features, thick short wavy hair with indented parts, a long handlebar mustache, and thick wrinkled grooves in his forehead.

Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975)

Aaron, 1941 (lithograph)

and youre telling ME to chill? tuh.

*fuck a lifestyle where this would ever be a casual 1st option instead of a handful of cheetos or peanut butter on saltine crackers*

photo of what looks like elongated slices of cantaloupe wrapped in paper-thin slices of marbled meat.

is this cantaloupe wrapped in prosciutto?!?! my urge is to say "fuck the rich" but those arent extremely expensive ingredients... still, i imagine it tastes like ass. 😑

and, yes, as always: fuck the rich!

photo of a tan-colored book with various unreadable glyphs & symbols on the cover with chinese writing that states this is a book of letters created by tracing the patterns of various bugs walking across paper. or something like that.

internal view of the pages with a variety of meaningless, bug-created glyphs.

that i caint get my hands on this greatly angers me...

Zhu Yingchun, The Language of Bugs, 2017

YouTube video by a tall white fountain played The New Ghost in the Shell Anime Looks INCREDIBLE.

so... a ghost in the shell series is coming in july, you say?

...innnteresting.

youtu.be/rp0pS_plO6k?...

Read full essay transcript: https://witsendpod.com/podcast-episodes/chaos-ensues-comic-artist-billy-graham Covering the artist, actor, writer, stuntman, Bill... BILLY GRAHAM: Marvel's First Black Artist

Billy Graham...

...no. not that one. 😑

Marvel Comic's 1st Black illustrator.

one of my pet desires is to illustrate a graphic novel version of My Life In the Bush of Ghosts; ive sketched concept art but it has ssSUCKEDdd... Lam's art meshes extremely well with Tutuola's classic.

have you read My Life In the Bush of Ghosts by Amos Tutuola? his surreal descriptions of the spirit world perfectly reflects Lam's work.

Saw this at "Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now".

Truly outstanding piece by Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity member Derek Fordjour from show focusing on how Black artists have referenced Egypt (and Ancient Nubia) to form an African identity.
#BlackSky

Negro History Week A National Celebration Annually observed everywhere in the United States The second week in February Beginning the 7th Directed by The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History The purpose of the celebration are to popularize the study of Negro Life and History and to secure more support for its promotion

Today, February 7, 2026, is officially the 100th anniversary of Negro History Week and the 50th anniversary of Black History Month.

Carter G Woodson purposely started Negro History Week on February 7th so that it would end on February 14th, which is Frederick Douglass's birthday

Documentary ‘Haiti is a Nation of Artists’ paints a portrait of the country’s artistic past and present - The Bay State Banner As the month of May, Haitian Heritage Month, comes to a close, a documentary by Jacquil Constant seeks to put Haitian art at the forefront of conversation.

“Haiti is a Nation of Artists” features painters, sculptors, gallery owners & historians who discuss Haiti’s artistic heritage.

“If it didn’t come from Haiti or a Black country it would be called surrealist art, because the sense of perspective is totally outside of what exists in the real world.”

Can't wait to see this show by under-celebrated Black Surrealist artist Wifredo Lam.

He was contemporaries and colleagues with Picasso, Breton, and Césaire. There are photos of him and Picasso hanging out. He did artwork for Césaire's book (with Picasso). Breton wrote intro.

It closes April. #BHM

Dali was obsessed with Hitler and fascism.

"The letter from Dalí to Breton in 1935 presents Dalí's ideas and offers some insights into why he was expelled from the Surrealists in 1939. Breton kept the letter as evidence against him."

Breton was friends with Aimé Césaire, so he was not having it.

that 2 and 2 are 5 that the forest miaows that the tree plucks the maroons from the fire that the sky strokes its beard etc. etc. . . . — Aimé Césaire, Notebook Of A Return To The Native Land

i love Césaire... my latest collection opens with an epigraph from one of his poems...

(sorry for double posting the link, i fell asleep after the first one and woke up thinking i had only posted the video of him...)

i have a copy of joans' collection Black Pow-Wow, hoping to inspire my own veering into surrealist poetry (it hasnt helped yet, but i need to dive deeper into it)... i'll likely order his biography, Black Surrealist: The Legend of Ted Joans over the weekend.

joans had a slight beef with léopold sédar senghor & felt he worked too easily with imperialist, tho joans too seemed to do this as well — i think it's mentioned in this article —

www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/169...

short description: painting of a Native American in full native dress with a peace pipe standing in front of a rhinoceros standing next to BIA (Bureau of Native Affairs) by Fritz Scholder, American and Luiseño Band of La Jolla Indians, 1937-2005. Museum text: "My painting called Indian and Rhinoceros has an Indian in full dress with a peace pipe posing with an ungainly rhinoceros in front of the Bureau of Indian Affairs [BIA]. My point,I believe, is obvious." An enrolled member of the Luiseño tribe, Fritz Scholder's statement underscores the cruel absurdity of the US government's relationship with Native Americans. The BIA, an agency within the Department of the Interior, was responsible for enforcing decades of federal policies designed to terminate tribal authority and relocate and assimilate Indigenous people. Galvanized by the escalation of he Vietnam War, in which Native American men disproportionately served, and the 1968 founding of the American Indian Movement (AIM), an activist group focused on Native American civil rights, Scholder felt compelled to address the violence of American history and the mistreatment of lndigenous people for the first time in his work.

"My painting called Indian and Rhinoceros has an Indian in full dress with a peace pipe posing with an ungainly rhinoceros in front of the Bureau of Indian Affairs [BIA]. My point, I believe, is obvious…" 1/🧵

Indian and Rhinoceros, 1968
Fritz Scholder, American and Luiseño Band of La Jolla Indians

Ted Joans, Surrealism, and Black Power...

www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/169...

YouTube video by The Museum of Modern Art How to See an Exquisite Corpse | Surrealism at 100

i JUST finished watching this 30 mins ago... a short video that touches on surrealism &, briefyly, Joans friendship with Breton.

youtu.be/B6GuVwN5Ql8?...

Storm, a Black woman with shock-white hair commands a winding tunnel of wind

Whooooosh

IF THEY DON'T CHECK IMMIGRATION STATUS BEFORE DETAINING SOMEONE, YOU CAN'T CALL IT IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT!
IF THEY VIOLATE COURT ORDERS AND INTERNATIONAL LAW WHEN DETAINING IMMIGRANTS, YOU CAN'T CALL IT IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT!

painting a statuesque, brown-skinned woman in a long floor-length red dress standing in a room near what appears to be a landscape painting or could be an open window.

contralto Marian Anderson by Harlem Renaissance painter, Laura Wheeler Waring

side profile painting of Josephine Baker, a glowing, brown-skinned woman with a short hairstyle featuring a curly cue bob slickered down against the side of her face.

Josephine Baker by Paul Collins

THAT ELIXIR WAS AMBROSIA!!!

sorry... my inner child was having a moment.