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12/06/2024

Big 👀 Eyes
I’m always on the hunt.
(thrift game is impeccable)

12/04/2024

A Black Genius

~ Ishmael Reed 1938

His mother responds to her “genius” son

I’m familiar with your
Prestige, your honorary
Degrees your name
Mentioned on the news
Thousands eager to
Hear your views
An Avedon took your
Photo, a prime minister
Read your books
Your spouse admired for
Her depth and Intellect
Your children
For their good looks
Your poetry is known
from Judith’s library
In Maine to
Scholz Garten in the state
Of Texas
But two of your
Brothers own
Black Cadillacs and
And another brother
Owns a Lexus

Copyright © 2024 by Ishmael Reed. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on December 3, 2024, by the Academy of American Poets.

11/30/2024

“It feels like just last year we were standing in HMV in Oxford thinking about how we were going to do a record sleeve and now we’re doing a museum show in pretty much the same spot,” says Stanley Donwood, the artist who is considered the sixth member of the British band Radiohead.

That first album sleeve, of a gasping resuscitation dummy, was created 30 years ago for The Bends and now Donwood (whose real name is Dan Rickman) and Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke are due to have their first institutional show, opening next August at the Ashmolean Museum in the band’s hometown of Oxford. Titled This is What You Get, a lyric from the wildly popular song Karma Police, the exhibition will include most of Radiohead’s album art from the past three decades, as well never publicly seen archives of sketchbooks, notebooks and faxed correspondence between Yorke and Donwood. Paintings and other works created for Yorke’s solo projects and his offshoot band, The Smile, are also due to go on show.

Donwood—who is now based in Brighton after finding Bath had become “too boring”—and Yorke first met at the University of Exeter where they were studying fine art and English literature. Rather than the paint-splattered studios of the art department, both were drawn to the smart graphic design department and its burgeoning technologies of the time. “We spent most of our time in graphic design, because that’s where they had a couple of those tiny little Apple Mac computers,” Donwood recalls.

Read more: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/11/22/radioheads-thom-yorke-and-stanley-donwood-to-have-first-museum-exhibition-in-oxford-next-summer

11/30/2024

Brick Real Estate on Atlantic Avenue becomes Brick Art Gallery once a month. This Saturday night, October 3rd, paintings by Robert Edward Franklin. His exhibit, Gray Matter Study. Stunning large ...

11/30/2024

11/30/2024

I have a solo show here every day | To buy DM
[email protected] / 917 628 3855 / NYC

windows look like sad eyes - IV
oil on canvas
2015

11/30/2024

I have a solo show here every day | To buy DM
[email protected] / 917 628 3855 / NYC

Myopic
oil on canvas
2006
REF

11/30/2024

I have a solo show here every day | To buy DM

[email protected]
917 628 3855

Robert Edward Franklin / NYC

Aqvangado Ab·o·rig·i·ne ( b & y)
oil on reclaimed wood
2006
$1000

11/30/2024

Reflux

30 x 40
oil on canvas
2011

I have a solo show here every day | To buy DM

[email protected]
917 628 3855

Robert Edward Franklin / NYC

11/22/2024

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