Friday Linda visited the SF MOMA. She is not quite as into documenting her visits as I am, but she enjoyed the Calder exhibit
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She also visited the Contemporary Jewish Museum and particularly enjoyed
Saturday we met Barbara Ustanko (fellow Pomona alum) and visited the Oakland Museum of California to see the exhibit called "Mothership - Voyage into Afrofuturism which was fascinating (some of these entries require scrolling through the thumbnails at the top to see them all) I tried to add the legend and info after pictures
The science fiction writer, Octavia Butler is referenced as a visionary force in multiple places
Barbara suggested we spend some time with
"Passage", a video triptych installation
There’s no way here to do justice to the way it simultaneously mesmerizes and challenges so here’s a link to an excerpt to give you a taste if it interests you - imagine though that you are sitting surrounded by the 3 projection screens
There were references to The Black Panther and something called the Wakanda Dream Lab
I remember Sun Ra vaguely from my Berkeley days, but mostly as a musician. I learned he also made pioneering movies and wrote and spoke prolifically
Two of the pieces that grabbed my attention were these two by Nigerian artist Olekan Jeyifous called Shanty Mega-Structures: Makoko Waterfront and Makoko Canal
Here are selections from a series of photographs from 1960s and 1970s Oakland community life
Ruth-Marion Child: Mother and Child & Black Panther feeding son(Free Huey Rally, Oakland, CA
Stephen Shames: Untitled, Woman with a bag of food at the Black Panther’s FreeFood Program & Untitled,Black Panthers testing for sickle cell anemia at Community Survival Conference rally
Some of W.E.B. DuBois' contribution to the American Negro Exhibit in the 1900 Paris Exposition seemed out of step with the other pieces, but his approach to graphic representation of data was fascinating:
One last for further thought
