The New York-born artist Michael Bailey, per the Whitney’s description, based this painting on diagrams of a ship carrying abducted Africans to the Americas that were published in 1780 by an English abolitionist group. No need to imagine it. This is how they did it.
How lucky I am that I get to travel. That I get to commune with artworks that hang, stand, are in museums in capitals of the world. That I get to enjoy safety and comfort in realities that I know all too well are filled with just as much despair, and joy, as that of […]
King of Cups 