In 2019 I visited 27 museums. This is the first year I haven’t spent at least one day of my holiday break visiting a museum for as far back as I can remember. In 2020, I visited 4 museums, and Museum Drip was born in the vacuum. In the absence of critiquing label copy and…
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If you’ve not yet entered the Wu, lest you think that this is a song about the get-money lifestyle and touting the joys of capitalism, I’ll tell you right up front that C.R.E.A.M. is a reflection on the unfairness of systemic racism and poverty that keeps certain people down while lifting others up. Wtih this…
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My intention for my next post was to write about why the arts and their repositories are worth defending. However, I believe my audience largely lies outside of the museum field and that some folks might want a crash course in why people want to burn museums down in the first place. I think we…
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It only took me four posts to title a post after Michelle Obama. No one who knows me is surprised. Now, I understand that Michelle Obama is not an arts professional, and likewise it is misleading to title this post about her and community building when it’s not really about her and her community building.…
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I recently read an article about how companies are scrambling to find token Black creatives. The article concerns artist Shantell Martin. Martin is a rising contemporary darling thanks to her bold, dynamic murals and the potential of her work to be used in collaboration across different sectors, from corporations to the performing arts. Martin was…
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