If you're looking for a group to support in honor of Assata's passing, Assata's Daughters is a great one. They are a queer Black woman-led and youth-focused organization rooted in the Black Radical Tradition in Chicago: www.assatasdaughters.org

Simone Leigh’s largest exhibition yet to explore ‘art made under fascism’ - The Art Newspaper - International art news and events

YES! So excited to see this!

Sluggos of the world unite!

Through her creative platform, Saint Heron, Solange has launched The Saint Heron Library, a digital archive dedicated to making rare and out-of-print works by Black authors, poets, and artists accessible to all. 🔗 library.saintheron.com

A book launch celebrating the work of the young black artist who died in one of the towers of the World Trade center on 9/11 www.cara-nyc.org/program/even...

​On this day in 1981, Taiwanese-American performance artist Tehching Hsieh began his third one-year performance piece. Also known as ‘Outdoor Piece’, Hsieh lived on the street in New York for an entire year. He was not allowed to go inside at all, including buildings, vehicles, tents or the subway.

Deborah Willis is a national treasure.

Santos: New Mexico’s generational art form - The Daily Lobo

Turns out the genius developers who plunked a self-harm basket in the middle of a luxury pied-a-terre plaza can't turn a profit off of it after all and need another infusion of public money.

In my dream In my dream I'm finally in the town house where he has lived for years: the ceilings are high, the rooms are big and dim and each has an altar made of piled plaster and shimmering mica . Another resident compliments my hair. I've waited to be here for so long.

Sculpting the sacred and the strange - Anchorage Daily News share.google/TzbggTEyIBOE...

Congrats!

Super chuffed to say that MATMOS is going to perform at the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona this summer along side many artists we admire! This fest has got it all, from Neubauten to Ninajirachi! 🛹🫟🎪🥁

How the Bay Area is preserving the legacy of Black quilting traditions share.google/exLl9MdhXeQB...

Remembering the Pigment Shop That Taught Me How to See share.google/TZeXGQnhmfyu...

In my dream In my dream I crawl, climb and slip through the dark trees and buildings, killing the panicked people who hunt me. I use my hands, it takes time, and I don't stop.

Okay this is just delicious to contemplate! 😍

things kind of stink now but you basically dont have to hear that pearl jam song "jeremy" anymore ever unless you actively want to hear it. it used to be you would be hear eddie vedder hooting like five or six times a day and you were powerless to stop it

It's raining like heck!

Did NOT have the money to cop this but what was I supposed to do? Not buy it ???? Fat chance

Now playing. Bow down to the Queen y'all!

These days I think a lot about artist George Grosz, who barely escaped from Germany to the US in 1930s as the Nazis rose to power. His scathing critiques of the rise of a fascist society put him at real risk of retribution. This is his "A Little Child Shall Lead Them (Family)" from 1932

In my dream In my dream the meal (jollof rice, stewed vegetables) came out of the back of a dusty watchmaker's shop that also patches African bronze statues. As I carry my plate I wonder how I am going to get all my stuff back home on the bus I'm due to catch.

Today's thought: it's okay for sex to be comfy, too.

The Teen Sculptor Who Took Washington by Storm—Then Vanished From the Spotlight

In my dream In my dream there is an elaborate metal and velvet pin cushion.

Very happy to be in this group show:

Congrats to @edidin.bsky.social on episode 500. This is pretty much the only X-Men content I consume these days and it's so very good.

What's this I have in my hot little hand? Why, it's just my advance copy of the catalog from my career retrospective that has finally been printed after FIVE years of delay! "No Wrong Holes, Thirty Years of Nayland Blake" will be available for purchase early this November!

In my dream In my dream I get to the restaurant that serves its food by little rafts that circulate in two moats. I have a tedious companion: a guy who thinks he's funny but who is just loud. He asks "what's with the hats?" and says something about Judaism.

Current read while I wait for the chili to be done.

the trans music archive has announced a residency for 2 trans bands/artists at their recording studio in NY, plus a $1000 stipend www.transmusicarchive.org/residency

Today's efforts have been entirely around weird little dangling tasks that annoy me but have not risen to the level of crisis yet. That's because I have a couple of crises that I'm afraid of dealing with so I'm procrastinating by doing the dt's (dangling tasks).

Today's hairband success.

In my dream In my dream their sleeping bags are head to head in the front room because they are a couple. I'll have to bed down somewhere else.

An Oral History Project Excerpt with artist Xenobia Bailey, who explains why the African American funk aesthetic is integral to her practice and her forthcoming project, a reimagining of the Seattle World’s Fair in 1962. bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

«To destroy often means to create space for something new» Louise Bourgeois in her studio.

Some interesting work showcased here:

In my dream In my dream the soldiers make their way along the submerged wings of the crashed plains to try to get to safety only to find that they are in an ambush, and the other planes are filled with men who shoot them down. Confusion and slaughter.

'Let There Be GWAR' exhibit celebrates 40 years of metal's bloodiest band - Los Angeles Times

Last night I attended “I was there: Stories from the Elders of the House/ Ball Community” at NYU Hemispheric Institute. Loved hearing them affirm that they are still here, how ball culture provided an outlet, that some still had supportive families of origin, & some moved into advocacy & activism.

If you're looking for a furry run sticker maker, @bearandbeagle.store is the best around!! Friendly, fair and very good quality!

In this week’s A View From The Easel, artists bring their beloved pets into the studio and make work inspired by the environments they inhabit, both natural and built.

From Stonewall to Trump: LGBTQ+ elders share what survival looks like under a hostile political regime and their advice to young people right now. 19thnews.org/2025/03/trum...

Thanks to @hyperallergic.com for including books by Okwui Enwezor, @naylandblake.bsky.social & Bimbola Akinbola in your fall books round up! hyperallergic.com/1043154/12-a...

In my dream In my dream the uptown lot is filled with antique wrought iron furniture. The floor is scuffed glass. We are wearing heavy coats.

Me when they play my jam

Was comforting my partner and thought this was worth sharing here