#yves trinidad

[gonzalo-obes]

IMAGENES Y DATOS INTERESANTES DEL DIA 3 DE FEBRERO DE 2024

Día Internacional del Abogado, Semana Mundial de la Armonía Interconfesional, Año Internacional de los Camélidos.

Nuestra Señora de Suyapa, Santa Ives, San Blas y Santa Olivia.

Tal día como hoy en el año 1953

Jacques-Yves Cousteau, oceanógrafo francés, publica, junto a Frédéric Dumas, su libro "El mundo del silencio". Poco después comenzará a trabajar en una versión para llevarlo al cine junto al director cinematográfico Louis Malle. Tres años más tarde este proyecto se hará realidad y se estrenará en la gran pantalla con gran éxito de público. La película mostrará al mundo el universo, hasta entonces desconocido, de los peces tropicales, la vida de las ballenas... y le otorgará el reconocimiento de la Academia Cinematográfica de Hollywood al premiarle con el Óscar al mejor documental, consiguiendo también la prestigiosa Palma de Oro del Festival de Cine de Cannes. Con sus documentales y libros, Costeau, ayudará a despertar, en cierto modo, la conciencia ecológica en la gente. (Hace 71 años)

1918

En San Francisco (California, EE.UU.), se inaugura el túnel Twin Peaks, que con sus 3,2 km se convierte en el túnel para coches más largo del mundo, permitiendo ahorrar a los habitantes de la zona unos 20 minutos en el recorrido al centro de la ciudad. (Hace 106 años)

1870

En Estados Unidos se ratifica la Decimoquinta Enmienda a su Constitución, prohibiendo a los estados o al gobierno federal usar la raza de un ciudadano, el color, o el estado anterior como esclavo, como una restricción para el voto. Su objetivo primordial es otorgar el derecho a voto a antiguos esclavos. Al día siguiente de su ratificación, Thomas Mundy será la primera persona en votar bajo las estipulaciones de la enmienda al emitir el sufragio en una elección al consejo escolar en Perth Amboy. En cualquier caso, el espíritu pleno que persigue esta Enmienda no se conseguirá en todos los estados, hasta un siglo más tarde, cuando en 1965 se apruebe la "Ley de Derechos de Voto". (Hace 154 años)

1830

Tras siglos de dominación otomana, mediante el protocolo de Londres, Rusia, Gran Bretaña y Francia, las tres grandes potencias Europeas, reconocen la independencia de Grecia bajo la forma de monarquía hereditaria. Ioannis Kapodistrias, noble griego será el primer ministro de la Grecia moderna. (Hace 194 años)

1813

En la provincia argentina de Santa Fe, tiene lugar la Victoria de San Lorenzo, en la localidad homónima, por 120 granaderos a caballo al mando del general San José de San Martín, que logra así su primer triunfo en tierras americanas, prólogo de su brillante historia militar en Latinoamérica. El objetivo del combate es defender el litoral desde Zárate hasta Santa Fé de los realistas al mando del Comandante realista español Antonio Zabala, que acaba de invadir el territorio. (Hace 211 años)

1807

En una operación naval y terrestre, tropas inglesas formadas por 11.000 soldados, toman la ciudad de Montevideo (actual Uruguay) tras cruentos combates y dos semanas de bombardeo que en el día de hoy logran abrir una brecha en las murallas. Los españoles aún sostendrán un sangriento combate para tratar de defender el interior de la plaza. (Hace 217 años)

1783

El Reino de la Gran Bertaña reconoce la independencia de las trece colonias, ahora Estados Unidos. (Hace 241 años)

1536

La expedición del adelantado Pedro de Mendoza entra en el Río de la Plata y funda un fuerte al que llama Puerto de Nuestra Señora del Buen Ayre, siendo éste el primer asentamiento en la actual ubicación de la ciudad de Buenos Aires (Argentina). La segunda fundación la hará Juan de Garay en 1580, quien la llamará Ciudad de Trinidad. (Hace 488 años)

[goalhofer]

1st NBA Draft Pick By Birth Country

USA: Chuck Share (1st overall, Boston) 1950

Canada: Bob Houbregs (2nd overall, Milwaukee) 1953

China: Tom Meshchery (7th overall, Philadelphia) 1961

Mexico: Manuel Raga (167th overall, Atlanta) 1970

Italy: Dino Meneghin (182nd overall, Atlanta) 1970

Germany: John Brown (10th overall, Atlanta) 1973

The Netherlands: Swen Nater (16th overall, Milwaukee) 1973

Trinidad And Tobago: Ken Charles (38th overall, Buffalo) 1973

Morocco: Mike Flynn (113th overall, Philadelphia) 1975

Denmark: Lars Hansen (37th overall, Chicago) 1976

Romania: Ernie Grunfeld (11th overall, Milwaukee) 1977

The Bahamas: Mychal Thompson (1st overall, Portland) 1978

Puerto Rico: Alfred Lee; Jr. (10th overall, Atlanta) 1978

UK: James Donaldson III (73rd overall, Seattle) 1979

Panama: Rolando Blackman (9th overall, Dallas) 1981

Iceland: Petur Gudmundsson (61st overall, Portland) 1981

France: Jacques Wilkins (3rd overall, Utah) 1982

Spain: Wallace Bryant; Jr. (30th overall, Chicago) 1982

Jamaica: Wayne Sappleton (38th overall, Golden State) 1982

Nigeria: Hakeem Olajuwon (1st overall, Houston) 1984

South Sudan: Manute Bol (31st overall, Washington) 1985

Haiti: Yves Joseph (36th overall, New Jersey) 1985

Bulgaria: Georgi Glouchkov (148th overall, Phoenix) 1985

Lithuania: Arvydas Sabonis (24th overall, Portland) 1986

Greece: Panagiotis Fasoulas (37th overall, Portland) 1986

Croatia: Drazen Petrovic (60th overall, Portland) 1986

Russia: Alexander Volkov (134th overall, Atlanta) 1986

Lebanon: Rony Seikaly (9th overall, Miami) 1988

Brazil: Rolando Junior (26th overall, Portland) 1988

Dominican Republic: Alfredo Horford (39th overall, Milwaukee) 1988

Argentina: Jorge Gonzalez (54th overall, Atlanta) 1988

Serbia: Vlade Divac (26th overall, Los Angeles Lakers) 1989

Egypt: Alaa Abdelnaby (25th overall, Portland) 1990

Democratic Republic Of Congo: Dikembe Womutombo (4th overall, Denver) 1991

Australia: Luc Longley (7th overall, Minnesota) 1991

Colombia: Alvaro Teheran (44th overall, Philadelphia) 1991

Bosnia & Herzegovina: Predrag Danilovic (43rd overall, Golden State) 1992

Slovakia: Richard Petruska (46th overall, Houston) 1993

Ghana: Will Njoku (41st overall, Indiana) 1994

U.S. Virgin Islands: Charles Claxton; Jr. (50th overall, Phoenix) 1994

Czech Republic: Jiri Zidek; Jr. (22nd overall, Charlotte) 1995

Ukraine: Vitaly Potapenko (12th overall, Cleveland) 1996

South Africa: Steve Nash (15th overall, Phoenix) 1996

Estonia: Martin Muursepp (25th overall, Utah) 1996

Israel: Doron Sheffer (36th overall, Los Angeles Clippers) 1996

St. Vincent & The Grenadines: Adonal Foyle (8th overall, Golden State) 1997

Slovenia: Marko Milic (33rd overall, Philadelphia) 1997

Montenegro: Predrag Drobnjak (48th overall, Washington) 1997

Georgia: Vladimir Stepania (27th overall, Seattle) 1998

Sweden: Miles Simon (42nd overall, Orlando) 1998

New Zealand: Sean Marks (44th overall, New York) 1998

Turkey: Hidayet Turkoglu (16th overall, Sacramento) 2000

Senegal: Mamadou N'Diaye (26th overall, Denver) 2000

Mali: Soumaila Samake (36th overall, New Jersey) 2000

Finland: Hanno Mottola (40th overall, Atlanta) 2000

Belgium: William Parker; Jr. (28th overall, San Antonio) 2001

Cameroon: Ruben Boumtje (50th overall, Portland) 2001

Luxembourg: Alvin Jones III (57th overall, Philadelphia) 2001

Poland: Maciej Lampe (30th overall, New York) 2003

Latvia: Andris Biedrins (11th overall, Golden State) 2004

South Korea: Seung-Jin Ha (46th overall, Portland) 2004

Central African Republic: Romain Sato-Lebel (52nd overall, San Antonio) 2004

Uzbekistan: Sergei Karaulov (57th overall, San Antonio) 2004

Switzerland: Thabo Sefalosha (13th overall, Philadelphia) 2006

Belarus: Vladimir Veremeenko (48th overall, Washington) 2006

Gabon: Yann Lasme (46th overall, Golden State) 2007

Taiwan: Joe Alexander (8th overall, Milwaukee) 2008

Republic Of Congo: Serge Ibaka-Ngobila (24th overall, Seattle) 2008

Tanzania: Hasheem Thabit-Manka (2nd overall, Memphis) 2009

Venezuela: Greivis Vasquez (28th overall, Memphis) 2010

Hungary: Hanga Adam (59th overall, San Antonio) 2011

Iran: Arsalan Kazemi (54th overall, Washington) 2013

Cape Verde: Walter Tavares (43rd overall, Atlanta) 2014

Macedonia: Cedi Osman (31st overall, Minnesota) 2015

India: Satnam Singh-Bhamara (52nd overall, Dallas) 2015

Austria: Jakob Potl (9th overall, Toronto) 2016

Cyprus: Aleks Vezenkov (57th overall, Brooklyn) 2017

Japan: Hachimura Rui (9th overall, Washington) 2019

Angola: Bruno Fernandes (34th overall, Philadelphia) 2019

Sudan: Bol Bol (44th overall, Miami) 2019

[glencoest]

𝗙𝗨𝗡𝗖𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗠𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗢 𝗗𝗘𝗟 𝗕𝗟𝗢𝗚 𝗗𝗘 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗦. / 𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗞𝗦 𝗔𝗟 𝗕𝗟𝗢𝗚.

¡Buenas tardes dash! Es bien conocido que tumblr suele no mostrar las cosas en los tags y por tal motivo, se ha decidido que se manejará un blog para los starters que lleguen a publicar dentro del roleplay. 

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[fyahoatsglobal-blog]

S.O.S :: SOCA on A SUNDAY returns this Columbus Holiday for the HU Homecoming Weekend!! NO Work... NO School ...and NO Responsibilities on MONDAY! Sunday, October 13th Saint Yves | 1220 Connecticut Ave. NW 4pm to 10pm __________________________________________ Tracks by DJ Hazzard + #TriggaHalfKrazy + Dj FYAH OATS Global + Sound Bang Entertainment playing ALL your SOCA, POWER, GROOVY hits....and much more! Ladies! - Comp. Entry B4 6pm w/RSVP (limited availability) **Early Bird Tickets - $10 | Gen. Adv. $15 // More at the Door Tickets available at or DCCarnival.com | BKEnt.com #SOS #SOCAonASUNDAY #ColumbusWeekend #HUHomecoming #Soca #Groovy #Power #DayParty #WashingtonDC #Soca #Groovy #dancehall #reggae #afrobeats #WashingtonDC #dmv #dmvnightlife #dmvnightspots #Caribbean #Barbados #Trinidad #Jamaica (at Saint Yves) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3QlTXrhJkH/?igshid=19m14j2v0txiu

[djbimshire]

S.O.S :: SOCA on A SUNDAY returns this Day Weekend for the Official Summer Close-out Day Party! Labor Day Sunday | September 1st Saint Yves | 1220 Connecticut Ave. NW Sounds by: @denforcas (CAN) | @jugglersinternational(TnT) | @djbimshire (Team Soca) Ladies! You get Comp. Entry B4 7pm w/RSVP (limited availability) **Early Bird Tickets - $10 | Gen. Adv. $15 // More at the Door Tickets available at socaonasunday.eventbrite.com or DCCarnival.com | BKEnt.com @dccarnival @bkentertainment @caribunited @carifestausa @socasdot_dc @logicpromotions @tazzentertainment @socamixx @trinijew21 @kiss.kd @dr.fete_d_savage @sdotproduction_dc @kittykatkeda @longleggsss @ms_westindian @rudegyaldani @theamde @shaythechink @mslondoncross @karnivalbouncecrew #SOS #SocaOnASunday #LaborDaySunday #DayParty #WashingtonDC #DC #Soca #Groovy # #dancehall #reggae #afrobeats #caribbean #trap #music #vybz #fusion #WashingtonDC #dmv #dmvnightlife #dmvnightspots #Caribbean #Barbados #Trinidad #Jamaica #VirginIslands #Grenada https://www.instagram.com/p/B1otvczH_oP/?igshid=1xwqzaxisf6zb

[mistavybe]

20 Things

Name: Personal friends and family call me Patrick 😊

Nickname: Mista Vybe - although that’s actually more of my showbiz sobriquet, but I have many acquaintances and colleagues that only know me as “Vybe”, and prob have no clue what my government name is 🤷🏾‍♂️. Alot of those types of folks here in Trinidad call me “Vybes” which honestly itks the fuck out of me, cause, like, there is only one of me. Not a swarm of us lol. But that’s Caribbean ppl for you I guess 🙄. Growing up my Mom and her friends would call me “Master P” but that stopped once I started looking too manly to be a “Young Master” lol. Older Trini ppl who know my parents also tend to refer to me as “Young Horace” (after my Dad) or “Marilyn(’s) Son”. I’ve also been called “Patch” by close family and a couple ex-gfs 🤔.

Zodiac Sign: Cancer 🦀 / Chinese Year Of The Rat 🐀

Height: 5 feet, 9 and ¾ inches

Orientation: Straight (not to be confused with Vanilla though 😉)

Favorite fruit: Grapefruit (preferably of the pink variety). The fruit I eat most often is bananas though

Favorite season: I live in the tropics where there’s technically only two “seasons” weather-wise - “Dry” and “Rainy”. I actually prefer the “Rainy season” because the Dry season is hot af 😩. If we’re talking “temperate” weather, I guess my fave season would be Summer. I’ll take Spring too once it’s not in cold ass places like Canada or Alaska 😐

Favorite book: Fave book of all time would prob be The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. I probably reread that thing 15 times and I get diff depth from it every time. My gauilty pleasure favourite novel is a delightfully trashy Robert Forward series called The Owl, which he wrote under the pseudonym Alexander L'Hiboux (the lead character’s name). That book (about a ruthless private detective and shady man-for-hire who has a rare disorder that render bim unable to ever sleep, so he never stops working a case - ever) needs to be a Fast & Furious type action blockbuster movie ASAP - make it happen Hollywood! 🙌🏾 Fave comic book currently is a toss up between Invincible Iron Man (go, Riri Williams, go!), the current Ta-Nehisi Coates run of Black Panther, Ms. Marvel and - last but not least - Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur.

Favorite flower: Red Roses

Favorite scent: Yves Saint Laurent L'Homme Libre cologne (and tonssss of other cologne fragrances that I won’t even bother to mention for the sake of time), gasoline at the gas station, fresh paint, the aroma of freshly baked ham + freshly brewed sorrel (and island beverage) on Christmas morning, and the sweet scent of passion 😍

Color: Purple, Black, Blue and silver/chrone/platinum - in that order

Animal: Whales are the most wondrous creatures on earth and I love them but sadly having watched the Blackfish documentary i’ve realised that even if I was a billionaire it’d be unethical to ever own one in a private space… so, I guess that means pet-wise i’m a dog person? 🤷🏾‍♂️ I love whales so much though. Like, I adore and admire their majesty. 🐳Especially Beluga Whales… but any whale is fine tbh. 🐋 Just put me in an ocean with all of the whales please and thanks 😍😍😍. Elephants are cool too (shout out to the lil homie, @red-oman)

Coffee, tea, or hot chocolate: If i’m forced to drink one at gunpoint, I guess I’d go hot chocolate 🙄. But honestly, I abhor hot beverages. Just gave me a tall glass of coca cola with lots of ice and a straw ans i’m good 👍🏾👍🏾

Avg hours of sleep: 3 to 4 quite often because Insomnia… but optimal sleep for me is 7 or 8 hours. That rarely happens these days due to circumstances beyond my control (AKA Life + Family + shit gotta get done + insomnia)

Cats or dogs: Dogs. Because xata are quite literally the Devil. But honestly why can’t whales just be house pets so my life could be perfect? 😩

Number of blankets: Just my one comforter. (I don’t count the thin ass coverlet that comes with the sheets that’s always between me and the comforter) Yes, I live in the tropics and I sleep under a comforter with the Air Conditioning on. Judge me - I careth not 😌

Favorite dead celebrity: Prince wins by a landslide. But we’ve lost so many recently that it’s getting harder to justify one favourite. Robin Williams will always be a treasure to me. Phife Dawg’s death still burns me. I still miss MJ and Whitney. Can’t leave out Bob Marley. On a personal note, none of these hits me in the gut as hard as the loss of my friend, musical brother and main collaborator Sheldon Benjamin AKA “super producer” $hel $hok 😢. I will forever miss him deeply. Also RIP Devon Matthews, a colleague who passed just this weekend 😞

Dream trip: My ultimate fantasy is to hit the lotto (or just strike it billionaire rich overnight) and fly myself and my son (#YoungVybe) to San Diego Comic Con, followed by like two or three weeks enjoying all that California/Los Angeles/Hollywood has to offer with an emphasis on Universal Studios and Disney theme parks 😁. Other than that i’d love to visit Japan. And Australia.

Blog created: 2009

Number of followers: On Tumblr - 337. My other social media pages are way more than uhmm… followed. 😳

Thanks so much for the tag @ropeandcoffee! 🙏🏾

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[imprincesspotato]

I didn't think anyone could have a longer name than Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier Marquis de Lafayette but I found out that Picasso's full name is Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso

[roidespd-blog]

Chapter Twenty-Nine : THE HISTORY OF PRIDE

As we celebrate all Queer individuals with the “Marche des Fiertés” (yeurk, I hate that name) today in Paris, I want to take a look back at the History of Pride, its worldwide impact and finally, FINALLY retire the adage “The First Pride was a RIOT”. No, it wasn’t. Quit it.

This article is a direct follow-up to the events of the Previous article about the Stonewall Riots. If you haven’t read it, now is the time. I’m waiting. Still waiting. Take your time, it’s quite long. … We good ? Kay Kay.

FIRST PRIDE(S)

Actually, the first pride were multiple Prides, in two consecutive days and Four different American cities. The first in line was the Chicago Gay Liberation on Saturday June 27, 1970. A year after the Stonewall Riots almost to the day. For those who know their Chicago streets, it was organized as a march starting from Washington Square Park to the Water Tower at the intersection of Michigan and Chicago avenues — I don’t know Chicago. Interestingly enough, the participants did not follow the originally planned route and spontaneously marched on to the Civic Center Plaza. The next day, first anniversary of the Riots, Los Angeles, San Francisco and New-York marched (well, San Francisco organized a “Gay-In”).

In L.A., a Parade was put together down Hollywood Boulevard. To counter the hate still targeting the Queer community, Queer activists in charge of this Pride named their organization “Christopher Street West”, as a way to not put too much attention on themselves while asking for permits. A chief of Police from L.A. once told one of the organizers “As fair as I’m concerned, granting a permit to a group of homosexuals to parade down Hollywood Boulevard would be the same as giving a permit to a group of thieves and robbers”. Battles ensued, fees were so high it became outrageous and a last minute court decision ordered the Police to do their jobs and go protect people’s “constitutional guarantee of freedom of expression”. In other words, suck it. Despite death threats, over a thousand people participated to the L.A. Parade.

But the first official Pride was held that same day in New York City. If you recall, we left Craig Rodwell with a desire to keep the momentum going and do something big for the Community. It came in the form of a Parade. On November 2, 1969, Rodwell and and three close friends proposed to held the first parade in NYC at a Philadelphia meeting of the Eastern Regional Conference of Homophile Organizations (ERCHO). Except for the Mattachine Society (which abstained), the vote was unanimous and prompted the organizations to held others (previously mentioned) marches all across the country. On Rodwell’s corner was the newly-formed Gay Liberation Front (GLF). It took close to six months to organize the first Pride. Finances through donations (from either the Homophile groups or the citizens) were difficult to come by. Originally intended for a Saturday, it was postponed to Sunday as to give more opportunities for people to show up. Luckily for the march, Mattachine changed leadership in April 1970, giving the organized event less opposition.

The permit for the march was delivered only two hours before the beginning of the event.

The march covered the 51 blocks to Central Park. It took less than half the time due excitement and was a mix of respect and fun. People were also in a hurry to walk because of their fear of rejections due to them holding signs and gay banners. Fortunately, the participants encountered little resistance from onlookers. The New York Times coverage said “There was little open animosity, and some bystanders applauded when a tall, pretty girl carrying a sign “I am a Lesbian” walked by”.

AND THE YEAR AFTER THAT, AND THE YEAR AFTER THAT, AND THE ONE AFTER THAT.

In 1971, marches were organized in Boston, Dallas, Milwaukee, London, Paris, West Berlin and Stockholm, while still being organized in New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago. The following year, Atlanta, Brighton, Buffalo, Detroit, Washington D.C., Miami, Philadelphia and San Francisco (not a “Gay-In” anymore) joined in. They adopted different names over the years, from “Gay Liberation Marches” to “Gay Freedom Marches”.

As of Today, marches are organized (in one form or another) in Africa, South Africa, Uganda, China, India, Israel, Japan, Korea, Nepal, the Philippines, Taiwan, Vietnam, in Canada, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Guyana, Barbados, The Trinidad and all over Europe.

While the 70s’ Prides were mostly about activism and had a rooted ideology to critique the space producing heteronormative norms by bringing homosexual behavior into it, the 80s gave us a cultural shift in the gay movement. Activists of a less radical nature began talking over the march committees all over the cities, replacing the “Liberation” and “Freedom” with “Pride” (while still keeping the “Gay” part, although it wasn’t ALL ABOUT THE GAYS).

With the arrival of the word “Pride” onto the scene came bigger notions of celebration. Large parades involve now floats, dancers, drag queens and amplified music. It attracts larger and larger crowds and is being taking over by governments and corporate sponsors and being used as major tourist attractions for hosting cities. Which is disgusting but more on that later.

With the HIV/AIDS epidemics of the 80s, many of the pioneers of the Stonewall Riots and the first Pride were no longer there to keep the memories of those events alive. Things that were supposed to endure, disappeared and the sense of “annual relief” from the participants became more present year after year. The one good thing that (recently) came with time is the name change. The language became more accurate and inclusive, as GAY is not EVERYTHING. It became Lesbian and Gay, then LGBT, and now the event is simply known (to the organizers) as “Pride” (I would argue for Queer Pride but that’s just my preference).

Today, Pride is not just ONE DAY. It’s an entire month, chosen to commemorate the Stonewall Riots. We can thank Bisexual activist Brenda Howard aka “The Mother of Pride” for that. She was the organizer of the first Pride in NYC, then she originated the idea for a week-long series of events around Pride Day which became a worldwide June celebration of our identities. Activist Tom Limoncelli later stated “The next time someone asks you why LGBT Pride marches exist or why LGBT Pride Month is June tell them “a Bisexual woman named Brenda Howard thought it should be””.

99 PROBLEMS (BUT A DANCE PARTY AIN’T ONE ?)

I often compare Pride with Almodovar’s movies. I liked it better when it was a ugly and messy than now, full of colors and boring as shit. For that’s not entirely fair. Political and social events in the country determines the level of political and social consciousness present in each Pride. In France, we pretend like everything’s okay. So the Pride becomes more of a dance party than a political event. Uh. So be it.

France’s first “Pride” was held in 1971. Well, actually no. Queer participants took the opportunity of the May 1st celebration to march alongside the usual syndicates and unions. That year, FHAR was created, replaced in 1974 by GLH. We can talk about a shy start for the Queer community in France since they took part of the march until 1978. But on June 25th 1977, the first independent Pride started from Place de la République to la Place des Fêtes, thanks mostly to the help of the MLF (Mouvement de Libération des Femmes). The next two years would see the same number of attendees (around a thousand) and would concentrate of the anti-homosexual discriminations laws still effective in the country. On the election year of 1981, 10,000 people showed up, prompting François Mitterand to declare soon after his win that those laws would disappear (and they did).

Shit got stinky started in 1986 when the CHLOEG (Comité Homosexuel et lesbien pour l’Organisation des Etats Généraux de l’Homosexualité)passed the baton on the organization of the pride, leaving space for exterior forces (business men) to take over. But I would also point out that the AIDS crisis was also an important fact in the transformation of the Pride, allowing difficult day-to-day lives to let go of their problems just for one day.

People lost interest and by 1991, only 1.500 marchers took to the streets. The “Gay Pride” Collective was created. They went to the press and to the AIDS associations and asked for unison against the disease so that by 1993, as many people were together as in 1981. The year after that, Prides were getting organized all around the country. The collective successfully found equilibrium between the politically active queers fighting for survival and the younger generation who wanted to have some fun.

In 1997, France hosted the Europride, leading to 300.000 people walking alongside one another. That’s good. And for the first time ever, businesses sponsored the event (SNCF, RATP, Virgin Cola, Kronenbourg, Yves Saint Laurent…). No so good. As of today, the collective Inter-LGBT is responsible for the annual event that usually ends up with around 800.000 participants.

I didn’t go to Pride this year, or the years prior due to me being employed all day on Saturdays. But I’m pretty sure that the Political is up front and the Fun part (most of the rest) is behind. Or something like that. That’s fine. No everybody needs to be politically-active but there’s not enough people to truly care about the urgency of some situations. For example, this year was probably all about the PMA. Great ! It’s urgent. But are we not concerned about the Trans community ? What about the Bi-Invisibility syndrome ? The Intersex right to not get butchered ? Last time I was there, I got stuck behind a very loud Electro Dance Party that was not fighting for anything but the right to be seen. It was by Gay Men for Gay Men. enough, Gay Men ! We see you. How can we not ? You’re loud and you are Men (and mostly White).

I’m personally very sick of Pride. I wish I could be more into it but it disappointed me year after year. Last year, I heard of a thing called “Pride de Nuit”. I can’t remember if it was the night before and the night after Pride but it was sold as a event entirely political, with the little march then a get together in which multiple politically motivated speeches would be heard. I was so in. I stayed 20 minutes. Why ? I was marching with two other gay people and the crowd started yelling in unison “Straight People suck ! Straight People suck !”. Are we Heterophobic now ? We got out and went drinking by the Seine.

Every time I see people just having fun with music and drugs (so much drugs) at Pride, I can’t help but remember the 1973 speech that Sylvia Rivera made at New York City. Find it, it’s on Youtube and it’s heartbreaking.

Here’s the transcript :

Sylvia Rivera: I may be —

Crowd: [booing]

Sylvia Rivera: Y’all better quiet down. I’ve been trying to get up here all day for your gay brothers and your gay sisters in jail that write me every motherfucking week and ask for your help and you all don’t do a goddamn thing for them.

Have you ever been beaten up and raped and jailed? Now think about it. They’ve been beaten up and raped after they’ve had to spend much of their money in jail to get their hormones, and try to get their sex changes. The women have tried to fight for their sex changes or to become women. On the women’s liberation and they write ‘STAR,’ not to the women’s groups, they do not write women, they do not write men, they write ‘STAR’ because we’re trying to do something for them.

I have been to jail. I have been raped. And beaten. Many times! By men, heterosexual men that do not belong in the homosexual shelter. But, do you do anything for me? No. You tell me to go and hide my tail between my legs. I will not put up with this shit. I have been beaten. I have had my nose broken. I have been thrown in jail. I have lost my job. I have lost my apartment for gay liberation and you all treat me this way? What the fuck’s wrong with you all? Think about that!

I do not believe in a revolution, but you all do. I believe in the gay power. I believe in us getting our rights, or else I would not be out there fighting for our rights. That’s all I wanted to say to you people. If you all want to know about the people in jail and do not forget Bambi L’amour, and Dora Mark, Kenny Metzner, and other gay people in jail, come and see the people at Star House on Twelfth Street on 640 East Twelfth Street between B and C apartment 14.

The people are trying to do something for all of us, and not men and women that belong to a white middle class white club. And that’s what you all belong to!

REVOLUTION NOW! Gimme a ‘G’! Gimme an ‘A’! Gimme a ‘Y’! Gimme a ‘P’! Gimme an ‘O’! Gimme a ‘W’! Gimme an ‘E! Gimme an ‘R’! [crying] Gay power! Louder! GAY POWER

For context, Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson were banned from the Pride and the speech list of that year for making other gay activists “look bad”. It was a time where the organizers didn’t want to be represented by Transgender folks and People of Color, and to satisfy a larger number of white gay middle-class folks attending the event and tired of politically-motivated speeches.

I believe that in 2019, we are living exactly the same situation. We’ve put the “weird” looking — scary different people under the rug and while we allow them to be with us, we don’t give them the platform they deserve. 46 years later, we are still silencing our people. Black causes, Intersex questions, Transgender rights. We only care about the things that heterosexual societies reject the most at the moment : yesterday was the Mariage pour Tous. Today’s it’s the PMA. One battle at a time while the rest of us stay behind ? Fuck no.

Anyway, I wish everyone a Happy Pride. I wish I could have wished it sooner but I got sick on Friday and wasn’t able to finish this article on time. There’s one more article due tomorrow or in a couple of days, depending on how I’m feeling. Until then.

“Hell hath no fury like a drag queen scorned” — Sylvia Rivera, 1995.

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[culturizando]

#UnDíaComoHoy: 1 de junio en la historia

¡Bienvenido junio! Junio (del latín Iunius, mes de Juno) es el sexto mes del año en el Calendario Gregoriano y tiene 30 días. Este mes era el cuarto en el primitivo calendario romano y recibió el nombre que lleva según algunos en honor de Junio Bruto fundador de la República romana, mas otros creen que era llamado así por estar dedicado a la juventud y no falta quien opina que tomó su nombre de la diosa Juno. De acuerdo con una tradición, la piedra de junio es la perla, y su flor, la rosa. Quedan 213 días para finalizar el año.  A continuación te presentamos una lista de eventos importantes que sucedieron un día como hoy 1 de Junio.

-Hoy se conmemora el Día Mundial de la Leche, conmemoración que nos brinda la oportunidad para enfocar toda nuestra atención en la leche, publicitando las actividades conexas que se realizan en todo el sector lechero. Muchos países han elegido celebrarlo el mismo día, lo que permite a las actividades que se realizan a nivel nacional tomar una dimensión global y además, darle a la leche un perfil universal.

¿Dónde comenzó? En la FAO (la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación), a quien se le solicitó proponer una fecha en la que se pudieran celebrar todos los temas relacionados a la leche.

¿Porqué el 1 de junio? Muchos países ya celebraban este evento en torno al 1 de junio. Originalmente también se manejó una fecha hacia finales de mayo, pero algunos países, como China, ya tenían un calendario repleto con otras conmemoraciones. De hecho, algunos países han elegido fechas una semana antes o después del 1 de junio.

-1533: el navegante español Pedro de Heredia y sus marinos, oriundos en su mayoría de la ciudad de Cartagena en España, fundan la ciudad de Cartagena de Indias en la actual Colombia. En poco tiempo esta nueva ciudad se convirtió en uno de los puertos más transitados e importantes del continente americano, sobre todo por ser el puerto de partida de las enormes riquezas que se extrajeron de las colonias, para ser llevadas a través del mar, hasta los puertos de Cartagena, Cádiz y Sevilla.

-1806: en Francia, el calendario republicano, instaurado por Napoleón es sustituido por el gregoriano.

-1831: James Ross y su equipo de exploradores, descubren el Polo Norte magnético. James Ross formó parte de la segunda expedición al Ártico de su tío John Ross. Durante su expedición como comandante, el Ross más joven guió a su gente al Istmo de Boothia en el norte lejano de Canadá, llegando al Polo Norte Magnético el 1 de junio de 1831. Ellos fueron los primeros exploradores conocidos que descubrieron la ubicación del Polo. En este viaje, Ross también registró las Islas Beaufort, que luego su tío nombró Islas Clarence. Algunos accidentes geográficos, que incluye : el Estrecho de James Ross, la Barrera de Hielo de Ross y el cráter Ross, recibieron su nombre de este formidable explorador

-1855: el aventurero estadounidense William Walker invade Nicaragua y reinstala la esclavitud.

-1857: en París, el poeta Charles Baudelaire publica ‘Las flores del mal‘. Considerada una de las obras más importantes de la poesía moderna, imprimiendo una estética nueva, donde la belleza y lo sublime surgen, a través del lenguaje poético, de la realidad más trivial, aspecto que ejerció una influencia considerable en poetas como Paul Verlaine, Stéphane Mallarmé o Arthur Rimbaud.

-1900: en Santiago de Chile se inaugura el periódico El Mercurio, uno de los más longevos de América Latina.

-1920:en Berlín se inaugura la primera exposición universal del dadaísmo. Uno de los eventos más importantes en la historia del movimiento dadaísta comenzó en el verano de 1920, cuando presentaron sus conceptos al público en una exhibición en Berlín. Inaugurada el 1ro de junio, la primera Feria Internacional de Dadá reunió a todos los principales exponentes del movimiento, los cuales representarían la cumbre de su éxito. Se presentaron 174 obras en una pequeña galería, para lo que sería un show revolucionario. Se representaron artistas de siete países, resaltando el internacionalismo del movimiento y su rechazo a los temas religiosos. Desafortunadamente, la exhibición no fue un éxito comercial, y sólo se vendió una obra de toda la colección.

-1926: nace la actriz Norma Jeane Baker, mejor conocida por su nombre artístico Marilyn Monroe.  Modelo estadounidense e icono universal del mundo del cine. Nació en Los Ángeles, y el 5 de agosto de 1962 fue encontrada sin vida en su casa, a causa de una sobredosis de sedantes. Antes de su muerte, según la historia, había vivido un romance con los hermanos Robert F. Kennedy (Fiscal General de los Estados Unidos 1961 – 1964) y John F. Kennedy (Presidente de los Estados Unidos 1961 – 1963) y la repentina decisión de este último de abandonarla podría haberla impulsado a consumir una sobredosis de barbitúricos. En 1946 consiguió su primer contrato con el estudio cinematográfico 20th Century Fox, y así inició su carrera cinematográfica con la película The Shocking Miss Pilgrim. Entre sus obras se destacaron: Something s Got to Give, (inacabada, 1962) Vidas Rebeldes (The Misfits, 1961) El multimillonario, (Let s Make Love, 1960), Una Eva y dos Adanes (Some Like It Hot, 1959) El Príncipe y la Corista (The Prince and the Showgirl, 1957) Bus Stop (1956) La Tentación Vive Arriba (The Seven Year Itch, 1955) Río Sin Retorno (River of no Return, 1954) Luces de Candilejas (There s No Business Like Show Business, 1954) Los Caballeros las Prefieren Rubias (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1953).

-1937: nace Morgan Freeman, actor estadounidense (Films: Se7en, Bruce Almighty, Million Dollar Baby). Su profundidad emocional y versatilidad lo han convertido en uno de los artistas más respetados de su generación. Fue el ganador de un Oscar de la Academia por su papel en “Million Dollar Baby” (2004).

-1938: en Estados Unidos, comienza a publicarse la historieta Súperman. Creado por el escritor estadounidense Jerry Siegel y el artista canadiense Joe Shuster en 1932, cuando ambos se encontraban viviendo en Cleveland, Ohio; lo vendieron a Detective Comics, Inc. en 1938 por 130 dólares y la primera aventura del personaje fue publicada en Action Comics  (junio de 1938) para luego aparecer en varios seriales de radio, programas de televisión, películas, tiras periódicas y videojuegos. Con el éxito de sus aventuras, Superman ayudó a crear el género del superhéroe y estableció su primacía dentro del cómic estadounidense. La apariencia del personaje es distintiva e icónica: un traje azul, rojo y amarillo, con una capa y un escudo de “S” estilizado en su pecho, escudo que se ha convertido en un símbolo del personaje en todo tipo de medios de comunicación.

-1945: en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Estados Unidos bombardea Osaka, este movimiento fue clave para la obtención de la victoria en tierras niponas.

-1967: en el Reino Unido se publica el esperado álbum del grupo de rock The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Considerado el disco más importante de la historia del rock&roll, y la confirmación de The Beatles como el mejor grupo de rock de todos los tiempos. Editado en el Reino Unido el 1 de junio de 1967, Sgt. Pepper’s marcó el final de una era y el comienzo de otra: para The Beatles supuso el adiós a los trajes y las giras mundiales. “Estábamos hartos de ser los Beatles. Ya no éramos chicos, éramos hombres… Artistas, no intérpretes”, explicó Paul McCartney años más tarde. “Paul y yo por fin estábamos trabajando juntos”, expresó John Lennon. Ringo Starr dijo: “Fuera quien fuera quien tuviera la mejor idea, se usaba. Nadie se dejaba llevar por su ego”. El disco estuvo 27 semanas en la cima del UK Album Chart en el Reino Unido, y alcanzó el primer lugar del Billboard 200 de Estados Unidos, manteniéndose ahí durante 15 semanas. Obtuvo cuatro Premios Grammy en 1968. Es uno de los álbumes más vendidos de la historia, con 32 millones de ventas estimadas, y se ha convertido en el segundo álbum más vendido en la historia del Reino Unido.

-1974: nace Alanis Morissette, reconocida cantante canadiense.

-2006: muere María del Rocío Trinidad Mohedano Jurado, conocida simplemente como Rocío Jurado, cantante y actriz española.

-2008: muere Yves Saint Laurent, reconocido diseñador de moda francés.

-2009: desaparece un avión (447 de Air France) en pleno vuelo procedente de Río de Janeiro y con destino París. Aquel 1 de junio de 2009, el avión Airbus A330-203, matrícula F-GZCP, mientras realizaba el servicio AF447 se estrelló contra el océano Atlántico con 216 pasajeros, y 12 tripulantes a bordo, incluyendo tres pilotos. El accidente fue el que tuvo mayor número de muertes en la historia de Air France. Además fue el segundo y mayor accidente fatal del Airbus A330. El 5 de julio de 2012, el Bureau d’Enquêtes et d’Analyses pour la Sécurité de l’Aviation Civile (BEA, Oficina de Investigación y Análisis para la Seguridad de la Aviación Civil en francés) dio a conocer el informe final del accidente. La conclusión fue que el accidente se produjo por el congelamiento y consecuente fallo de los tubos Pitot que indican la velocidad junto con una combinación de errores humanos por parte de los pilotos en la gestión de la emergencia.

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Dreams fulfilled* - Trinidad & Tobago Express

Trinidad & Tobago Express Dreams fulfilled* Trinidad & Tobago Express Making her debut at the recent Paris Fashion Week was 17-year-old Trinidadian model, Naomi Chin Wing who walked the runway representing Yves Saint Laurent. Vogue magazine defined Chin Wing as, “a striking 17-year-old from Trinidad and Tobago. http://dlvr.it/PrQPjt

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Trinidad by cjs114 featuring a beige purse ❤ liked on Polyvore

Zimmermann linen dress, 1 030 AUD / Yves Saint Laurent white leather shoes / Steven Alan beige purse, 385 AUD / Birks 18k earrings, 975 AUD / Set of makeup brush, 36 AUD / Bobbi brown cosmetic, 58 AUD / Forever 21 conditioning mascara, 5.06 AUD / Blush, 39 AUD

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Trinidad - Zeitreise in die Vergangenheit - Teil 1

Nach dem Ausschlafen ging ich am Morgen des 27. Januar zunächst zum etecsa Büro, um dort im Internetcafé zu versuchen, schon den Flug von Havanna nach Kolumbien zu buchen, weil es am Abend und in der Nacht davor partout nicht funktioniert hatte. Aber auch hier hatte ich kein Glück und fast stündlich stieg der Preis weiter.

Als ich wieder einmal die Fehlermeldung bekam, dass die Bezahlung mit meiner Kreditkarte nicht funktionierte, gab ich es erst einmal auf und rechnete schon damit, dass ich einen deutlich teureren Flug buchen müsste, wo meine Kreditkarte wieder funktionieren würde. In dem Moment war Maria aus Guatemala online und nachdem wir uns kurz ausgetauscht hatten, wo wir gerade unterwegs sind, erzählte ich ihr beiläufig von meiner vergeblichen Flugbuchung und spontan bot sie mir an, es von Guatemala aus zu versuchen - und es klappte!

Nun konnte ich erleichtert mit der ausführlicheren Erkundung von Trinidad beginnen und lief immer der Nase nach durch die gemütlichen Kopfsteinpflasterstraßen, wobei das was wir als Kopfsteinpflaster kennen dagegen schon fast als Flüsterasphalt durchgehen würde. Hier von einem Auto angefahren und ersthaft verletzt zu werden war äußerst unwahrscheinlich - vorher würde es das Auto zerlegen. Trinidad scheint noch mehr Zeitreise zu sein, als Kuba insgesamt.

Ich kam an ein Museum, welches einen Glockenturm hatte, von wo aus man einen herrlichen Rundumblick über Trinidad hatte - von den Bergen im Norden bis zum nahegelegenen Meer im Süden. Das Wetter war wechselhaft und so erschien immer wieder mal ein schöner Regenbogen am Himmel und die Sonne ließ die regennassen Kopfsteinpflasterstraßen in der Sonne glitzern.

Zum Abend ging ich wieder zur großen Treppe und lernte passend zur Abendessenzeit noch Yves aus Frankreich kennen, der schon einige Jahre länger reist als ich, und so unterhielten wir uns den ganzen Abend und aßen dann auch noch zusammen zu Abend.

[caveartfair]

$10 Million Reward Extended for World’s Largest Art Theft—and the 9 Other Biggest News Stories This Week

01  The Gardner Museum has extended a $10 million reward for information leading to the recovery of works stolen from the museum in 1990.

(via the New York Times)

The Board of Director of Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum voted to keep the reward of $10 million from reverting to $5 million (as it was set to at the end of 2017) for information that could help recover famous works by Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Johannes Vermeer, and Rembrandt van Rijn that were stolen in what is the world’s largest unsolved art heist. On March 18, 1990, two thieves disguised as Boston police officers tricked museum guards into allowing them into to the building, then restrained the guards, and left roughly an hour and 20 minutes later with the works. While multiple suspects have been identified in the nearly three decades since, no one was ever charged with the crime and the statute of limitations for the theft has passed. The Federal Bureau of Investigation claimed in 2013 that it had identified the perpetrators, but did not name them and said they had already died. The investigation into where the stolen works are, however, is ongoing; and after making detailed timelines, and compiling databases of pertinent information, the museum’s head of security has stated he hopes the reward will reveal enough crucial evidence that leads to finally finding the missing artworks.

02  Scholars confirmed Tuesday that 20 artworks by Modigliani previously on view at Genoa’s Palazzo Ducale were actually fakes.

(Artsy)

More than 100,000 people flocked to a Genoa exhibition last year to ogle paintings attributed to Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani. But expert examination of these works has revealed that much of the show was comprised of forgeries. This news follows a lengthy investigation into the provenance of the paintings initiated by Italian authorities last summer. Art historian Isabella Quattrocchi, asked by Italian authorities to examine the works, didn’t mince words. She described the paintings as “blatantly falsified,” citing both their style and pigment composition. The art squad of the Italian Carabinieri is continuing to look into the case. Exhibition curator Rudy Chiappini is under investigation, along with Joseph Guttmann, the Hungarian dealer who owns 11 of the pieces, and another unnamed party. The Palazzo Ducale said it is cooperating with authorities and denied any attempt to deceive, asserting that the institution trusted Chiappini, who served as director of the Museo d’Arte Moderna in Lugano, Switzerland, for nearly two decades.

03  Jean-Michel Basquiat’s record-breaking $110.5 million painting will go on view at the Brooklyn Museum at the end of January.

(via the New York Times)

Japanese collector Yusaku Maezawa broke records when he paid the whopping sum for Untitled (1982), a skull painting by the famous artist, at Sotheby’s last May. The work will appear in the Brooklyn Museum show “One Basquiat,” which opens January 26th and runs through March 11th. The exhibition will mark the first time the work has been displayed in a museum, though Maezawa has explicitly stated his plan to continue showing the work publicly. “My hope is that art becomes more accessible to a wider audience, and not just enjoyed by a select few,” the 42-year-old billionaire told the Times.

04  David Zwirner will expand his New York presence with a five-story Renzo Piano-designed building in Chelsea.

(via the New York Times)

The global megadealer, who this year celebrates his 25th year in business, is breaking ground this spring on a $50 million building designed by Piano, the New York Times reported. The new gallery, set to open in fall 2020, will have three floors of galleries and be connected to the residential tower going up at the same address, 540 West 21st Street. Zwirner also opens his new Hong Kong location, in the city’s Central district, at the end of this month, and has galleries in London and multiple other locations in New York as well. According to the Times, the gallery brings in revenues of well over half a billion dollars a year. The opening in Asia is intended to place Zwirner in one of the art world’s increasingly important centers, while he described the new gallery in Chelsea as something that would better serve his artists, of whom he represents more than 50, including estates, and his staff, which numbers 165 globally. “It will upgrade the quality of my spaces, and that is something attractive for all these people that I need in my life — the artists and the people who work here,” Zwirner told the New York Times.

05  La Salle University’s decision to deaccession 46 works from its collection has drawn criticism.

(via The Art Newspaper)

The Philadelphia university announced last week that it has consigned 46 works by artists from Henri Matisse to Dorothea Tanning to Christie’s for a springtime auction. Funds from the sale will go towards helping the museum’s financial troubles, The Art Newspaper reported Saturday. The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) along with the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) issued a statement criticizing the the sale, which violates industry guidelines. La Salle has stated that the money will go to aiding learning initiatives at the school. However AAM and AAMD have argued that “a different governance structure does not exempt a university museum from acting ethically, nor permit them to ignore issues of public trust and use collections as disposable financial assets.” The Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) & AAMC Foundation also disavowed the move, saying it “goes against fundamental best practices of museums,” which prohibits museums from deaccessioning work for anything other than their collections. The university did not respond to criticisms of the sale but a La Salle spokeswoman told The Art Newspaper that the online and London-based sale is set to occur between March and June.

06  A New York court ruled that billionaire art collector Dmitry Rybolovlev can use confidential documents from Sotheby’s in an international legal fight with Yves Bouvier.

(via The Art Newspaper)

The judgement, handed down December 22nd, is a setback for Sotheby’s, which has sought to remove itself from the legal tussle between Rybolovlev and the Swiss freeport magnate Bouvier. In 2015, the Russian billionaire filed the first of several suits against Bouvier, who once served as his art advisor, accusing him of fraud. Rybolovlev alleges that Bouvier was supposed to act as his agent in procuring several major pieces but instead sold Rybolovlev artwork at a massive markup and pocketed the profits. Though Rybolovlev has filed suits across the globe, last April a court in Singapore ruled that the lawsuit filed there should be heard in Switzerland, the venue that Bouvier argues is most proper for the dispute. The latest ruling in New York, however, means that Rybolovlev can now also bring a suit in the United Kingdom against Sotheby’s, which Rybolovlev argues played a role in the alleged fraud. According to his attorney, the confidential documents show that the auction house, as well as a top Sotheby’s executive, were aware that Bouvier was buying work on behalf of a client and encouraged Rybolovlev to purchase works at “grossly inflated” prices. Sotheby’s rejected the characterization as “baseless” and argued that a U.K. suit is “simply a tactic, using Sotheby’s location in England as an excuse to continue his worldwide dispute with Mr. Bouvier in the English courts.”

07  The pioneering curator Kynaston McShine has died at age 82.

(via ARTnews & Hyperallergic)

Born in Trinidad in 1935, McShine joined the Museum of Modern Art one year after graduating from Dartmouth College in 1958 with a degree in philosophy. At the time he was the only person of color in a curatorial role at the museum. While at the MoMA he curated the legendary 1970 exhibition “Information,” which shone a spotlight on noted conceptual artists including Hans Haacke and Vito Acconci, at the age of just 35. In 1966 he curated the groundbreaking abstract sculpture exhibition “Primary Structures” at the Jewish Museum, which he joined as a curator in 1965. “Over the course of more than 50 years, McShine devoted himself to those pursuits, organizing exhibitions that highlighted the most venturesome and radical of his time,” wrote Andrew Russeth in ARTnews.

08  Discussions concerning the return of Cameroon’s “Bangwa Queen” sculpture, currently held in France, have stalled.

(via The Art Newspaper)

The Dapper Foundation in Paris, which owns the work, has stalled all restitution attempts by the Bangwa people of Cameroon, according to its lawyer Earl Sullivan. The sculpture was either “given to or looted by” a German agent in the late 1800s and made its way through numerous collections before being acquired by the Dapper Foundation in 1990. Recent attempts by the Bangwa people to reach out to the foundation to discuss the object’s return have been met with “no substantive response,” Sullivan said. This lack of dialogue contradicts a statement from French president Emmanuel Macron in November, in which he noted that the return of objects taken from Africa will be a “a top priority” for the nation.

09  Authorities seized several antiquities from the New York home and office of billionaire collector Michael H. Steinhardt.

(via the New York Times)

Investigators took at least nine pieces in last Friday’s raid together worth a total $1.1 million, reported the New York Times. The hedge fund manager and museum donor, who has a gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in his name, didn’t comment on the seizure of the objects, which Manhattan prosecutors allege were looted from Greece and Italy. Among the objects cited in search warrants are a $380,000 Greek oil vessel from the 5th century BC and ancient figurines. The raid is part of a broader crackdown on the purchase of illicit ancient objects by Manhattan district attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr., who announced the formation of a special unit to combat the trafficking of looted antiquities in December. While the Manhattan DA’s office has seized several pieces—including some that have been on view at the Met—so far no individuals have been charged for possessing the works.  

10  The debate continues over the Met’s decision to require out-of-town visitors to pay its full $25 suggested admission fee.

(via Hyperallergic, Cause and Effect & Artforum)

In an interview with Hyperallergic, Daniel Weiss, president and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, rationalized the decision to charge full price by touting a model of “co-investment,” in which everyone who enjoyed the museum and had a stake in it would pay something according to their means. But, he noted, “for various reasons, over the past 10 or 12 years, the pay-as-you-wish policy has failed. It has declined by 71% in the amount people pay. So the question then is [whose] responsibility is that? It’s a social contract that no longer works.” However, finance columnist Felix Salmon, writing in Cause & Effect, questioned Weiss’s math. “Admissions revenue was $6.11 per visitor in fiscal 2017, which is higher, not lower, than the $6.02 it was in fiscal 2012. So I don’t know where Weiss is getting his 71% figure, but at best it’s cherry-picked,” Salmon wrote. The museum later responded, clarifying that “as costs have risen, admissions revenue has not kept sufficient pace.” Meanwhile, a Care2 petition to keep the Met “Free for All” has nearly 18,000 signatures as of Friday afternoon. The Met has actually never been totally “free”; its pay-as-you-wish policy required some contribution, even if just a penny.

from Artsy News