art — Writing by Carrie Y. T. Kholi

THOUGHT: If Antonin Artaud was crazy, then the President Elect is crazy too.

Antonin Artaud launched a defense of Vincent Van Gogh’s sanity arguing that, “Van Gogh was not mad, but his paintings were wildfire, atomic bombs, whose angle of vision, compared to all the other paintings popular at the time, would have been capable of upsetting the larval community of the Second Empire bourgeoisie …”

cultureCarrie KholiJanuary 7, 2017medium articles, donald trump, michelle obama, barack obama, niggernavy, artaud, art, van gogh, mental health

EVENT: The Black Woman is God x EBX

Oakland artists and curators Karen Seneferu and Melorra Green are presenting The Black Woman is God: Reprogramming that God Code at SOMArts (934 Brannan St., San Francisco), an interdisciplinary show featuring work by more than sixty artists that, too, reveres the Black woman — and it couldn’t be more timely.

cultureCarrie KholiSeptember 6, 2016the black woman is god, art, karen seneferu, melorra green, somarts