dagblog - Comments for "Silver Lining: the Skin I'm Not In"

I cannot resist adding to

artappraiser — Sat, 23 Jun 2018 04:56:34 +0000

In reply to Silver Lining: the Skin I'm Not In

I cannot resist adding to this thread because this is a new cross-cultural one on me, the new generation of curators just keep coming up with newbies!

Circles and Circuits is an apt title for this two-part exhibition tour addressing the art of the Chinese Caribbean diaspora....

and I would like to point out the sponsoring institutions, hah:

Exhibition schedule: Circles and Circuits I: California African American Museum, Los Angeles, September 15, 2017–February 25, 2018; Circles and Circuits II: Chinese American Museum, Los Angeles, September 15, 2017–March 11, 2018

Hope the girl with the cheong-sam prom dress got to see it!

Oops,I just gotta edit to add the twin exhibition review i missed, talk about global, geeeeeez:

Transpacific Borderlands: The Art of Japanese Diaspora in Lima, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and São Paulo

Transpacific Borderlands: The Art of Japanese Diaspora in Lima, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and São Paulo

Curated by: Clement Hanami, Exhibition Curator, with Miho Hagino, Kris Kuramitsu, Michiko Okano, Jaime Higa, and Claudia Sobral

Exhibition schedule: Japanese American National Museum (JANM), Los Angeles, September 17, 2017–February 25, 2018

Hard to believe you'd go in

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 21 May 2018 05:39:00 +0000

In reply to Comes to mind, rather than

Hard to believe you'd go in for the blatant objectification of men (including their little "showers" I suppose).

Remember sitting on a Camden curb listening to that song ringing out of somewhere - American Werewolf in London of sorts. Springsteen/Dancing In the Dark and Stop Making Sense also followed me around.

BTW, it was a hauntingly

artappraiser — Mon, 21 May 2018 04:05:39 +0000

In reply to Meghan Markle and the

BTW, it was a hauntingly beautiful rendition of "Stand by Me", definitely worth a watch if you haven't seen it:

It is an especially interesting point that they are a British black gospel group. One might at first see this as cross-cultural par excellence. But think again: while the origins of gospel are rightly mostly assigned to black slave culture, there is quite a bit of Scots-Irish Appalachian old time religion in it, too (i.e. Amazing Grace et. al.) So while far from "Church of England" traditional Brit imperial conqueror culture, it's not so foreign as some are making it.

Comes to mind, rather than

artappraiser — Mon, 21 May 2018 03:50:21 +0000

In reply to Sure, famous for being famous

Comes to mind, rather than Miz Grace, this is the one-hit wonder from the same period that earned eternal acclaim and fandom in gay club world, nothing artsy fartsy, just pure joy, still rings my bell, too:

Pull up to the bumper was the

rmrd0000 — Mon, 21 May 2018 02:47:49 +0000

In reply to Sure, famous for being famous

Pull up to the bumper was the only that I can remember

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc1IphRx1pk

We'll have your cantankerous

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 21 May 2018 02:17:00 +0000

In reply to Meghan Markle and the

We'll have your cantankerous badge back for this, just as soon as I file the paperwork. You used to not be such a pushover...

Did Brexit show for the pageant? Must be sad - used to be a girlfriend of all the elite, quite the looker just 2 years ago, and now left watching the gala with little room at the table for an outlook and wardrobe that's suddenly gone quite out of style.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/20/the-guardian-view-...

Also rather shocking is the demise of the trophy wife or young lass in waiting. Here Harry married a 37-year-old older woman, besting William's 36-year bride (but a fair bit younger at 29 when tied the knot to sire the next generation of royalty, and a far sight older than then 20-year-old Lady Di). #MeToo? Try #ImStillHere. Mature women are in, at least in London, unlike Trump's choice of 26, 29 and then gasp 35 as he aged ungracefully.

Sure, famous for being famous

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 21 May 2018 02:15:11 +0000

In reply to I saw her whole shtick up

Sure, famous for being famous. Even now I can't place any if her tunes, and I have an amazing ear/memory for tunes. Is she the old woman in Great Expectations? That could be it. All of us are Pip. But anyway, that's ~~appropriation~~ entertainment.

Meghan Markle and the

artappraiser — Mon, 21 May 2018 01:43:12 +0000

In reply to Silver Lining: the Skin I'm Not In

Meghan Markle and the Bicultural Blackness of the Royal Wedding

Op-ed by Salamishah Tillet @ NYTimes.com, May 20

“Who are your people?” is the question that repeatedly came to me as I watched Doria Ragland, Meghan Markle’s mother, sitting a few feet away from her daughter at Saturday’s royal wedding. A common expression among southern African-Americans when greeting a stranger, it is never simply a matter of bloodline or individual biography. Rather, responses like “I’m the daughter of so and so” or “My family comes from here by way of there” serves the greater purpose of attesting to one’s place in history and potential bonds of kinship [...]

Edit to add The Times' note on op-ed writer:

Salamishah Tillet (@salamishah) is an associate professor of English and Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania and a co-founder of A Long Walk Home, a nonprofit group that uses art to empower young people and end violence against girls and women.

Apart from Tillet's interesting opinion: This cynic tuned in to see the dress and move on and got stuck watching the whole damn show and was mightily impressed with each and every part. Who knows why I was so cynical, I should have learned by now, that this church entity after 4 or 5 decades of being "with it", the Anglican/Episcopal church is filled with people who have the pulse of the progressive zeitgeist, and are deep into it, and masters of speaking to it and dealing with it, whatever it might be at the time. And I should also have learned by now that the Brit royal family knows how to do spectacle, turned up or toned down as need might be. Was a thoroughly 21st-century cultural event and dare I say it, I also think: one for the history books, a milestone marking a major point of culture change.

Bouncing around twitter shortly thereafter, I easily found that I was not alone as a cynic who got hooked and impressed. Including many of the "black twitter" tribe.

I saw her whole shtick up

artappraiser — Sat, 19 May 2018 00:46:44 +0000

In reply to 70 years of inappropriation -

I saw her whole shtick up close and personal when she did a show at a big disco managed by the S.O. of my youth. I don't know about now, but back then she was the eptimony of a prima donna, very difficult, my way or the highway, I am genius, hear/here me roar....

Skin color remains the rate

rmrd0000 — Fri, 18 May 2018 12:09:50 +0000

In reply to The same sorta "but what

Skin color remains the rate-limiting step in defining genealogy.