I took some time out of my schedule to attend Refik Anadol’s first major solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Living Paintings, which opened at the Jeffrey Deitch museum on February 14, 2023. This highly anticipated exhibition showcases Anadol’s complete series of artworks based on California-related datasets, exploring his fascination with the environments that shape his artistic vision.
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The movie AIR does a great job of displaying Deloris Jordan specifically being very instrumental in the treatment of her soon to be legendary son Michael Jordan. We only get a chance to see one major sneaker silhouette and display which is the Air Jordan “Chicago” 1.
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Pasadena’s Black History Parade is the longest running Black history parade in the Southern California area. Established in 1982 as a family-friendly festival with the purpose of bringing together and celebrating the Black community in the Pasadena area, this year marked the parades 41st year.
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ComplexCon was created to host themes involving exhibitions, music concerts, discussion panels, streetwear culture and content related to pop culture and mass audience entertainment. ComplexCon has become an event that cultivates and gives exposure to new upcoming brands and artists that are trying to break into the streetwear and design scene.
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“They know I’m ballin ‘in the city like DeRozan’ is one of the stand out lines in the classic Roddy Ricch tune “Die Young” which holds more and more truth every year Demar DeRozan decides to pop out to come play in the popular Los Angeles pro am Drew League.
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The Leimert Park Juneteenth celebration is essentially a large family reunion to bring the Black community of LA together. It is designed to give back to Black owned businesses within the south Los Angeles area exposure, and to create awareness of the Black creative community in Leimert Park.
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Out of defiance for the Western-dominated art world, Murakami created his own movement called Superflat. The name refers both to the flattened compositions that lacked one point perspective of historical Japanese artistic movements such as Nihonga, as well as to the flattening (or merging) of art and commerce.
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“Wake me Up when I am Free” exhibit is a room that has huge screens of falling rose petals and smells like a field of Roses. Jeremy Hodges & Nwaka Onwusa did an amazing job of curating an exhibit that highlighted Tupac’s life…
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Once upon a time, not long ago, if you wanted the new pair of Nike SB “N.E.R.D”’ dunks or the NIKE SB “Milkcrate” Blazers,…
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Virgil gave us SB Blazers, graphic T-shirts, New Era hat wearing – who listens to rap music with no fashion design background? Kids hope that we could all become Artistic Directors and Designers for large fashion houses if we stay true to ourselves. Virgil was a true architect in building a bridge for our culture to thrive in different spaces we were not welcomed to in the past.
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Being a Black man in America many of those stories resonate with me. They make me feel at home when I attend these exhibits. Viewing the pieces also build confidence and pride in being Black. It causes me to celebrate the strength within our culture, how we have persevered through tough times, how we have remained strong throughout our journey here.
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New York is the big city of dreams and if you can make it there you can make it anywhere, but I believe that’s because it challenges an individual to be uncomfortable which pushes people to become fearless and gain confidence to get up and try again after they get knocked down.
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