artwork by Erica Bryant and Karen Faris in my office along with posters for film screenings over the years. also a one of a kind whistle by Delia Robinson and a beautiful ceramic bowl and plate created by my sister. reminds me of a sunflower, like the one in our kitchen <3
#artworkmakesmehappy #artworkfromfriends #artworkfrommysiste? #myoffice #aroomofonesown #setauket #longisland
@aoc: There is no such thing as being “pro-life” while supporting laws that let children be shot in their schools, elders in grocery stores, worshippers in their houses of faith, survivors by abusers, or anyone in a crowded place. It is an idolatry of violence. And it must end.
our daughter’s commencement ceremony today. outdoors and over 90 F but we made it!
how cool is it that malcolm x, yuri kochiyama and ho chi minh were all born on may 19th, in 1925, 1921 and 1890 respectively. belated happy birthday to all of them.
#malcomx #yurikochiyama #hochiminh #happybirthday #may19
Article in Newsday about our exhibition at Westbury Arts:
“Honoring the Past and Creating the Future”
WHEN | WHERE Through May 27, 2-6 p.m. Friday and 2-4 p.m. Saturday, Westbury Arts, 255 Schenck Ave.
Six Long Island women artists whose cultural heritages stretch across the globe share works that reference identity, immigration, history and fantasy. In her “This Heirloom” series, Brookhaven artist and filmmaker Mara Ahmed creates layered images full of texture, color and memories – some remembered, some imagined.
“Art,” she stated, “allows us to imagine alternative futures”
More here.
#asianamericanpacificislander #asianamericanpacificislanderheritagemonth #artexhibition #openingreception #westburyarts #westbury #longisland
lovely birthday party for this little guy at the curry club at saghar, port jeff. these beautiful young ladies are all related to me, on my mom’s side. it’s a tiny world ??
#firstbirthday #portjeff #portjefferson #curryclubatsaghar #familytime #familyphotography #itsasmallworld
pictures from the opening of the asian american pacific islander heritage art exhibition at westbury arts on may 6, 2022
photographs by ed shin/shinbone photography
#asianamericanpacificislander #asianamericanpacificislanderheritagemonth #artexhibition #openingreception #westburyarts #westbury #longisland #opening #artopening
Repost from @shirien.creates
Shireen Abu Akleh was shot on Wed May 11 by Israeli forces while reporting on their raid on the occupied Palestinian city of Jenin.
Shireen was wearing a press vest, which is a recognized symbol and way to identify her as press and provide a level of protection. She was also wearing a helmet. Shireen’s colleagues and eyewitnesses described that she was directly targeted by an Israeli sniper and shot with precision.
Shireen was a well-known Al Jazeera journalist that so many of us grew up watching as she covered the news on the ground in Palestine for decades. She was a household name for Palestinians across the diaspora, glued to their TVs to know what is happening in the homeland in times of crisis.
The fact that Israeli forces can kill such a famous reporter with impunity speaks volumes about the state of what’s happening in Palestine. Not even those trying to shed light on the situation are safe.
I couldn’t sleep last night when I heard the news of Shireen’s murder, so I drew this portrait in her honor. My thoughts and prayers are with her family, loved ones, and colleagues. Her voice will not be forgotten.
Allah yir7amha. Justice for Shireen. Free Palestine.
after taking off for laguardia this morning, we were told that the plane didn’t have enough ‘pressure’ so we had to turn back. we circled on top of chicago for an hour and then landed back at o’hare, close to the time we would have landed in ny had everything gone as planned.
but my sister picked me up, we had lunch at portillo’s, fresh samosas from asian island, and then chai with her lovely friends. everything works out in the end <3
‘Berlin-based Pakistani artist Bani Abidi’s photographic work, The Reassuring Hand Gestures of Big Men, Small Men, All Men (2021), is one that gently chips away at longstanding mythologies of male power. And like those myths, it works by endless repetition, in this case, and as the title suggests, of the hand gestures that have, for millennia, been an essential component of the performance of politics.’
Some of the individuals featured in this work: Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Ronald Reagan, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Alexander Lukashenko, Jair Bolsonaro, Tony Blair, Imran Khan, Narendra Modi, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Joseph Stalin, Hun Sen, Robert Mugabe, Kim Jong-un, Idi Amin, Benjamin Netanyahu, John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Omar Al-Bashir, Fidel Castro, Boris Johnson, Bill Clinton, Saddam Hussein, Haile Selassie, Jorge Rafael Videla, Pervez Musharraf, Muhammad Ayub Khan, Augusto Pinochet, Than Shwe, Kim Jong-un, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Muammar Gaddafi, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, etc
tuesday night (may 10th) my sister and i went to see ‘seagull’ at the steppenwolf’s new in-the-round theater. sadly, yasen peyankov’s adaptation of the chekhov classic didn’t quite work for us.
the brisk pacing, economy of language, and non-stop humor created a disconnect between some of the messed up relationships in the play (that can evoke heartbreak) and the constant, almost canned, laughter coming from the audience. to me ‘the seagull’ is not exactly seinfeld. it’s dark humor no doubt, but it’s delivered thru sarcasm and innuendo. making the dialogue clipped and direct removes some of the layers needed to make the play work as a tragicomedy.
the actors were good but they were stuck with a less than stellar adaptation. an experience nonetheless.
#seagull #theseagull #chekhov #play #steppenwolf #steppenwolftheatre #chicago #intheroundtheatre #antonchekhov #theatreisback #theatreislife
my sister and i gallivanting in chicago yesterday: lunch at beatrix, afternoon spent at MCA, and then dinner at tao chicago, a spectacular restaurant housed in the historic building that used to be castle chicago nightclub before it closed in 2014. esp taken by the giant mural created by HUSH, ‘a british mixed-media artist who fuses the aesthetic of street art with subjects from japanese iconography’.
#mca #museumofcontemporaryart #chicago #taochicago #hushartist #japaneseiconography #art #sisterarethebest
The exhibit at MCA takes its name from Bani Abidi’s watercolor series “The Man Who Talked Until He Disappeared” which depicts writers, political leaders and bloggers from Pakistan who have been disappeared on account of their activism over the past decade. In this minimalist delicate series, we see them disappear gradually on paper with the last watercolor portraying threadbare, eyeless, bodiless specters that continue to haunt us.
#baniabidi #mca #museumofcontemporaryart #chicago #pakistan #pakistaniartist #disappearances #politicaldisappeared #politicalviolence #stateviolence #militaryviolence #thedisappeared #themanwhotalkeduntilhedisappeared
This sound installation by Pakistani artist Bani Abidi at MCA brought me to tears. A powerful memorial to the one million South Asian/Indian soldiers who fought in WW1 but have been completely erased. My own great grandfather fought in France, under British colonial rule.
Bani Abidi’s Memorial to Lost Words is a song installation based on letters and songs from the First World War. They are not the well archived memoirs of European and British soldiers, but the words of Indian Soldiers and their womenfolk back home in India. Even a hundred years after the fact, it is a little known fact of WWI history that more than a million Indian soldiers fought in this war. So, clearly, official accounts and memorials are very rarely truthful transmitters of history. This memorial draws from letters that were written home by Indian Soldiers and folk songs that were sung by their wives, mothers and sisters at the time but were censored or forgotten because of their candid condemnation of the war.
#baniabidi #pakistaniartist #mca #museumofcontemporaryart #chicago #worldwar1 #indiansoldiersinww1 #southasiansoldiers #soundinstallation #memorial
lunch at beatrix, walk to lake michigan, and then the genius of pakistani artist bani abidi at MCA (museum of contemporary art) here in chicago. more about her stunning work in next post.
#beatrixrestaurant #lakemichigan #mca #museumofcontemporaryart #chicago #hangingoutwithmysister
