File under: Representation matters.
Seeing herself reflected in art allowed Sommer Hill to feel comfortable creating her own.
Dave's Picks | Amazon Rainforest Arrives To A Bushwick Corner!
Dave's Picks | The Jewish Deli: An American Tale Told in Pickles and Pastrami
An art show to remember if you’re headed to Los Angeles before September or if you’re one of our LA readers (we see you!) but soon to arrive at our very own New York Historical Society!)
Dave's Picks | Celebrating Brooklyn Artist Steve Keene: America's Most Prolific Artist
Dave's Picks | An intimate look at Jean-Michel Basquiat's art, courtesy of his family
Dave's Picks | Massive Origami Sculptures Have Taken Over The Garment District!
Dave's Picks | Richard Wright Haikus As Public Art in Downtown Brooklyn
Dave's Picks | Incredible immersive experiences to check out in NYC right now!
Dave's Picks | Coney Island Adds Another DASH Of Color!
Dave's Picks | Historic Obama Portraits Coming To The Brooklyn Museum
The iconic official portraits of former President Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama — painted by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, respectively, have lived at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C ever since their unveiling in 2018.
Dave's Picks | KAWS AT ROCKEFELLER CENTER
Dave's Picks | Garment District TRANSFORMATION
Dave's Picks | NYT | ‘Zoetrope’ Review: And You Thought Your Apartment Was Small?
They say … you can start by disregarding thread count. Here’s what else the pros know that you may not.
Let’s talk about glorious sleep and the art of how we do it best. While there may be as many ways to make a bed as there are doing dishes, with myriad choices from sheets and quilts to coverlets and duvets, one secret of life is that sleep is king and rules the day and your bedding shouldn’t stress you out. In this piece experts offer suggestions for dressing our bed, not unlike dressing to express ourselves and move through life as our best self.
Dave's Picks ICYMI | NPR • Housing Projects And Empty Lots. Chanell Stone Reframes Nature Photography
California-based photographer Chanell Stone
is challenging the genre of nature photography, made popular in the 1900s by (typically white) men like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. The idea back then being that nature was remote, wild, and untouched — environments she notes in this NPR piece have too often been off limits or inaccessible to low income Black people.
ArtNet | Artist Nick Cave Just Won a Bizarre Legal Fight Over Whether His Political Mural in a New York Village Is Actually Art. (It Is)
The town's board unanimously ruled that Cave’s text installation is indeed an artwork.
Taylor Dafoe, February 4, 2021
Dave's Picks | ICYMI — Banksy's London Tube Artwork
In the ongoing saga of whether to mask or unmask in the age of a raging pandemic. We found this Banksy video post capturing the work in progress (and ensuing development) fascinating to say the least.
So you know, all of us in Speak to Dave Land falls squarely in the former camp. Wear your masks, people. Stay safe, be kind, be smart and remember, the name of the game is staying alive!
Gothamist | Bed-Stuy Gets Its Own Gigantic "Black Lives Matter" Street Painting
By Sophia Chang June 14, 2020
YES. Bed Stuy represent!
Taking inspiration from the gigantic Black Lives Matter street painting near the White House in Washington D.C., community leaders and volunteers painted a street in the heart of Bed-Stuy with the same message Saturday.