The Brooklyn Museum of Art hosted Target 1st Saturday party is NYC’s best monthly jam hands down. First off, you are in one of the city’s greatest buildings right in the heart of the county of Kings. This neighborhood, and this city, was brought to its knees during the Crown Heights riots. Everything is not equal or equitable but those fires aren’t burning any longer. Young Black male teenagers are still at risk of dropping out of school and falling through the cracks but if one of those young men comes to the museum and sees himself in the image of regalia maybe he will internalize that memory for the dark days.
I love these portraits of Black men that Kehinde Wiley has created [ll]. I need to put a boldface on that pause button too since C.S. informed me that the subjects of the paintings may be Wiley’s intimates. I have to ignore that detail to really appreciate the details in these portraits. C.S. tells me that these works further objectify Black males within the larger power structure, but honestly asking, what DOESN’T objectify the Black male? The Black male is what everyone wants to be when they consider the virility of mind, body and spirit. The unconquered lions roam free in the county of Kings. Well, not exactly, but you can get that feeling from viewing some of the Wiley paintings the museum has on permanent display.
Make sure you get to the museum early enough to enjoy some of the permanent collection…
Curator Talk – 7pm
Kevin Dumouchelle, Interim Assistant Curator of the Arts of Africa and the Pacific Islands, discusses the Museum’s collection of African art. This event is Sign Language interpreted. Free tickets are available at the Visitor Center at 6:30pm
Music – 7:30–8:30pm
The award-winning Brooklyn Youth Chorus presents seasonal songs and liturgical music inspired by James Tissot’s The Life of Christ
First Saturdays Focus Group – 9–9:30pm
Join us for a discussion of what would bring you back to the museum
Dance Party – 9–11pm
Relive warm summer memories and shake it at a hot dance party presented by Brooklyn’s Soul Summit
You don’t have to come to the Brooklyn Museum of Art in a tuxedo, but if you have a nice piece of vintage Polo Ralph Lauren put it on and show your respect to the style and swagger that young Black teenagers have made popular all around the globe.
Son, you should have put pause in the title of this post after reading this. But in the first line is sufficient.
All I see is a bunch of flowery dudes with too much lip gloss embossed onto bad contemporary flowery wall paper. But thats just me
Whats with duke in the last pic pointing to son’s meat while covering it?
^^Roffle Mayo @ 6 100!
All I see is a bunch of flowery dudes with too much lip gloss embossed onto bad contemporary flowery wall paper. But thats just me
^LMAO! I quit.
“and sees himself in the image of regalia…”
Yikes!!
If it comes down to rioting or wearing my jacket a cpl sizes to young, said jacket becomes part of a malatov.
I’ll be heated [ll] if there is an influx of the skinny jean.
and that was “too young”
This is our young peoples Polo. We have to show them how its done just like we watched the OGs over us.
“They pants too tight, they ain’t fittin’ right, plus they sweater small, fux it I’m better y’all”. -(c) P
D, i’m sending over a cfs you might be interested in submitting somethin to.
good counterpoint to C.S.
“If it comes down to rioting or wearing my jacket a cpl sizes to young, said jacket becomes part of a malatov”
^^bwahahahahaha!
Thanks though DP. You knew we appreciate the culture clash (no Boy George). Oh shit, see that I did there?
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i was listening to batty boyz by doom and initially i thought it was this whole metaphorical thing about how rappers are mad gay now, but upon re-reading the lyrics, its just a diss rap towards batman, which is a whole lot better.
“Whats with duke in the last pic pointing to son’s meat while covering it?”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Does that hoody say “my thing”???
“I have to ignore that detail to really appreciate the details in these portraits.”
I quit.
I always respected dudes work, but yes, his subject go have that “something special” kinda sheen about them.
If you look @ the first pic long enough [||], you can see the bottle of champagne dude is pretending to craddle.
“you can see the bottle of champagne dude is pretending to cradle.(✔) ”
Champagne? HAHAHAHAHA
I had to let my dudes see the “art” displayed here(ll). Wings & skrimps for the Civil War game. And a 7g’er…
Y’all niggas better watch out that you don’t go ghey from fear to look a man in his face. I think these portraits are fly. The detail on sonn’s New Era fitted? If you didn’t know the subjects were ghey (and they may not be) it doesn’t negate my point that African American men are never described as subjects of fine art. Urban contemporary, but never with the rigors that are associated with fine art. If you are really intop broads like you say you are it won’t even be an issue since there be nothong but high-heeled ladycake at BMA
No doubt, DP.
I won’t front on the artistic quality of the work.
I’m with Dallas on this one. Even though the models in these paintings are suspect, the objective of these paintings are to present young black males in a fine art setting. Usually if a black person in general is in a fine art painting, they are a ‘servant’ or an armor bearer. I majored in studio arts, and I cant stress how dificult it was to be the only black male trying to paint fine art with ‘my peoples’ as my subjects. I actually pissed my professor off, because I refused to do a graffiti peace since it was and ‘urban’ subject.
You ever see his work on rappers for that MTV Hip Hop Honors from a coupla years ago? That’s when I was working there and snatched up the posters of B.I.G. and Kane real quick.
Peep his B.I.G. and also LL Cool J based on and actual John D. Rockerfeller pic:
http://leflaneurblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/kehinde-wileys-blak-irony.html
“If you are really intop broads like you say you are it won’t even be an issue since there be nothong but high-heeled ladycake at BMA”
You should have made this sentiment more prominent. I might have to check out the art watching the art at the art spot, which is an art onto itself
KEHINDE WILEY is the ish! Hands down nuff said regardless of the ‘soft’ susspect dudes in this particular collection.
LOOK CLOSELY PEOPLE.
He brings fine art to a whole nother stratosphere … period.