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Sacrifice (Serpentine book 2) (2016) by Cindy Pon

“Skybright is plunged into the terrifying Underworld where demons are bred, while Stone, stripped of his immortal status, must find a way to close hell’s breach before more mortals die. Meanwhile, Zhen Ni, Skybright’s former mistress and friend, is now wed to the strange and brutish Master Hou, and she finds herself trapped inside an opulent but empty manor. 

When she discovers half-eaten corpses beneath the estate, Zhen Ni worries that Master Hou is not all he seems. As Skybright begins the dangerous work of freeing Zhen Ni with the aid of Kai Sen and Stone, nothing can prepare them for an encounter so dark that it threatens to overtake their very beings.”

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“I don’t normally Cosplay, but when I do…” 

by Dedren Snead

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In today’s more global society, what does it mean to be American? The word has long been associated with people living in the United States, but it can also apply to those in any other country in North, South, and Central America. While our galleries of American art for many years have included works from throughout the Americas, we have refreshed them to more fully reflect this broader definition of “American.” In addition, with themes that include cross-cultural influences, racial discrimination, and urbanization, the installation expands on issues confronting many Americans today.

The arts of the Americas’ indigenous peoples express a deep, timeless spiritual connection to their ancestors and sacred homelands. Despite the European conquest and the massacre of millions, the indigenous peoples persevered, and continued to develop their rich and creative artistic traditions. Fundamentally, these artworks express the eternal message of the first peoples: “We have always been here.”

In Maya cosmology, the water lily is associated with the underworld. The bejeweled male figure in Figure Emerging from a Water Lily may therefore symbolize the renewal of life after death, making it an appropriate burial offering. Hundreds of figurines in this style have been found on Jaina Island, just off Mexico’s Campeche coast, which served as an elite Maya burial site.

Hundreds of years later and over two thousand miles away, potters in what would become Arizona depicted scenes, such as the hunter and antelope on this Sikyatki bowl, that provide clues about daily and spiritual life. Clay sources allowed potters to add red, yellow, and cream colors to their design palettes. Motifs became less geometric and linear, and more representative of regional animals and plants.

Stop by our newly refreshed American Art galleries and see a broader definition of American art on our walls.

Posted by Connie H. Choi

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Falcao Lucas @falcaolucasart

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Lumiere Collection by Eduard Locota

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Memorial plaque for the Nuremberg Town Physician. Detail of arms. Sandstone, 1485. (Germanisches National Museum) via DreamerofStars on Twitter

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Dirck Valkenburg

Portrait of a Young African Woman; Portrait of a Young African Man Holding a Bow

Netherlands (c. 1706)

A pair, the first oil on canvas laid down on panel, the second oil on panel, both oval. each: 9 1/8  by 6 ¾  in.; 23.2 by 17.2 cm. via Sotheby’s

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What Was African American Literature? ( 2012)

“African American literature is over. With this provocative claim Kenneth Warren sets out to identify a distinctly African American literature―and to change the terms with which we discuss it.

Rather than contest other definitions, Warren makes a clear and compelling case for understanding African American literature as creative and critical work written by black Americans within and against the strictures of Jim Crow America. Within these parameters, his book outlines protocols of reading that best make sense of the literary works produced by African American writers and critics over the first two-thirds of the twentieth century.

In Warren’s view, African American literature begged the question: what would happen to this literature if and when Jim Crow was finally overthrown? Thus, imagining a world without African American literature was essential to that literature. In support of this point, Warren focuses on three moments in the history of Phylon, an important journal of African American culture. In the dialogues Phylon documents, the question of whether race would disappear as an organizing literary category emerges as shared ground for critical and literary practice. Warren also points out that while scholarship by black Americans has always been the province of a petit bourgeois elite, the strictures of Jim Crow enlisted these writers in a politics that served the race as a whole.

Finally, Warren’s work sheds light on the current moment in which advocates of African American solidarity insist on a past that is more productively put behind us.”

By Kenneth W. Warren  

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a strong boy a spicy boy

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Giorgio Kienerk (1869-1948), Le Printemps de la Vie - 1902

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Only one week left to see Helice Wen’s solo show “(Public) Intimacy” on view until May 28!

You can also view the entire show online here.

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Rain, a fan film about Storm  (2016)

“RAIN is a 23-minute original short independent fan film created by Maya Glick, directed by Zane Rutledge and Jeff Stolhand, and produced by Matt Joyce. Inspired by the “punk” incarnation of the Marvel superhero Storm of the X-Men. “  

Maya Glick is “RAIN” Produced by Matt Joyce Directed and Edited by Zane Rutledge and Jeff Stolhand  

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walking out of an exam you knew you failed

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