Hey, guys, I'm back to blogging, with a gullet full of the "Jerk" chicken from the Caribbean Day parade, readers will be pleased to note -- mirabile dictu -- that The Corsair eschewed the "Curry" Goat, the "Pickled" snout and "Cowfoot."
Anyhoo: I'd like to plug a piece I have out in the Fall Preview issue of New York Magazine. Big ups to my diligent editor, the very cool Chris Lehman. Here the article:
Two New Shows on the Color Line
"Next month, two accomplished African-American artists come into their own with major solo shows. Kehinde Wiley uses settings familiar to conventional European portrait art?quasi-religious imagery is a frequent stylistic touchstone?and inserts young black men, in contemporary hip-hop attire, into the frame. Kerry James Marshall adopts a more contemporary idiom while exploring similar themes. His best-known project, Rhythm MastR, reworks the pop imagery of comic book art to address black American experience. Marshall says the project grew out of his 'lamenting of the absence of African-American heroes.'
The rest of the article here.
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