Refinished, Recabled, Raised Higher ✨
Sharing a few images from a summer conservation project on Robert Graham’s Monument to Joe Lewis from 1986, installed in downtown Detroit. The work pays tribute to famed Detroit heavyweight boxing champion Joe Lewis, who immigrated to Detroit from Alabama to become one of the best boxers of all time.
Thanks to the amazing team of colleagues from @diadetroit who worked so hard to pull this off at a busy intersection on a beautiful day!
The best part of this project was hearing from so many people passing by how much this work means to them—easily one of the DIA’s most beloved and most viewed artworks!
Spent the weekend celebrating the lives and legacies of James and Grace Lee Boggs, among a gathering of activists, artists, friends and family members assembled by the @grace_lee_boggs foundation and the brilliant @scottkurashige
Together, Grace and James charted a vision for Detroit that spanned the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements to the complexities of the Obama Era and Post-Bankruptcy Detroit.
They insisted on a vision for Detroit that put the city at the center of revolutionary thought, part of a shared global conversation—a city that was not an aftermath of capitalism and the industrial age, but a place that had already begun to envision what comes next.
Grace and Jimmy’s home is a monument to critical thought, community connection, and the transformative power of love.
A needed infusion of inspiration and radical possibility ♥️
World’s fastest work trip: Rome to Florence to Pisa in 72 hours. Loved seeing Keith Haring’s last major public mural, Tuttomondo, and some luscious details from beloved works, finally in person, at the Uffizi.
Thank you so much to artists Amna Asghar, Jamea Richmond Edwards and Jaime Pattison for guiding the DIA’s Friends of Modern and Contemporary Art through Season Art Fair.
If you don’t know these amazing artists, give them a follow: @annasasquatch@jamearichmondedwards@jaime.pattison 💜 💜 💜
Congratulations to the Season team and Amani Olu on bringing together this gathering of artists and galleries for Detroit. @season.contemporary@amaniolu
Amazing evening with the incredible Jeff Mills at Spotlite Detroit!
Congratulations @jeff_mills_official and @rouladavid on an amazing exhibition and residency!
Spotlite Museum for the win! @spotlitedetroit
Celebrating the three incredible New Orleans artists sharing their work at MoMA tonight: Gabrielle Garcia Steib, L.Kasimu Harris, and Renee Royale ✨
When I was working with these artists in New Orleans, they were “local artists” and we really had to fight for them. Just try to come at me with that now. Beautiful to see these artists presented as they always were — among the best in the world!
Thrilled that @neworleansmuseumofart exhibited and acquired work by Gabby and Kasimu so early on!
Let’s keep that center of gravity shifting away from the coasts @themuseumofmodernart
Kills me not to be there! Congratulations, friends.
@honeysighs@visionsandverbs@reneeroyale
Some scenes from what feels like a long ago weekend in the desert with the brilliant art installations of @_desertx
Congratulations @_k__g__m__ on a gorgeous, thoughtful show!
1) the reflective spirals of @studiokimsooja created from glass and a unique optical film that turns the landscape into reflective prisms of light (and me and my mom!)
2) An eco adobe oasis by @rrael harnessing thousands of years of ancestral building knowledge and the power of 3-D printers
3) The incredible @kapwanikiwanga always visualizing portals of freedom — and marking histories of global migration
4) Tile mosaic by @felipebaeza honoring Coachella Valley as both a border region and queered space
5) Future thinking vehicles reflecting the land by @cannupahanska
6) Flowering pyramid by @agnesdenes blooming with native vegetation
7) @sarahmeyohas interactive search for truth
8-10) The SELF service station of @alison_saar
11) @josedavila and the weight of movement — stacked boulders marked by their own journey across the US-Mexico border
