POPULARized: Tauba Auerbach "Don't Font You Know U Like It'

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Tauba Auerbach's typology is so fresh and energetic! She has found ways to take the alphabet to a different level; thus, creating a contemporary hieroglyphic of the English language. In 2006 she actually alphabetized the entire New Testament of the Holy Bible with her typology. You can't front on her fonts, I need a print of A-Z soon! Tauba, hit me when you make this happen!







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POPULARized: Vee Speers "Birthday Cake Anyone"

Back in the day the cake was the star of the party and now fashion has stepped in to take a slice. Vee Speers, an Australian photographer based in Paris for over a decade, was inspired by her daughter's birthday party and the concept of role playing when she created this wonderful photographic series. I've been mesmerized with this series for awhile now and decided to share it after the book was released. "The Birthday Party" is whimsical and the concept is oh so delicious-the only thing missing is the cake!




all pics via Veers


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POPULARized: Mari Kubota

pics via Mari

Mari's work is colorful, feminine and all things girly...don't you just love it! I was first introduced to her work at a gallery in November and I haven't stopped dreaming of owning a piece yet. Enjoy!





pics via Ping

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POPULARized: Society HAE

SHAE is a Brooklyn,NY based home to a creative movement that crosses international cultures: "Centered on fashion, music and art, Society HAE is a website and online social network connecting people all over the world looking for unique experiences online and off...We’re a tribe of many people with many styles...Society HAE is where we gather as one community."-SHAE

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POPULARized: Museum Matriarchs

"The kind of dismissal that comes from just people's sense that they don't imagine you are who you are actually has been one of the most powerful and liberating things for me in my work."-Thelma G.


Lowrey Stokes Sims+Thelma Golden+Nicola Vassell+Shantrelle P. Lewis are what I have coined "Museum Matriarchs". Lowrey Sims is the wise mother of the bunch; yet, each African Diaspora woman has curated their life to become advocates of the arts in an industry where being a woman, being young and being of African descent years ago was just a dream...until now!


She is wise, she is profound, she is the Curator at MAD, she is Lowery Stokes Sims...check her out!






Ted 2009 speaker,executive director of the Studio Museum in Harlem, Thelma Golden is a force to be reckoned with!




She's stylish, an ex-model and with all the glamour Nicola Vassell is equally educated and well-versed in the arts as Gallery Director at Deitch Projects





One part amazing, one part futuristic and a whole lot of Africana is Shantrelle P. Lewis, Director & Curator of The George & Leah McKenna Museum of African American Art! Check her segment out at 2:02:

POPULARized: Gordon Parks+T.Magic

“But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.”-William Butler Yeats

How often do we find that our dreams are built on the struggles of our ancestors? We are a people who have been creative masterminds for centuries--indigenous to making something out of nothing. Gordon Parks and T.Magic are a part of this rich heritage past and present they help to weave a legacy of HOPE! Their works overcome barriers by situating the marginalized people and places of the world into the mainstream so that they can be seen and hoping that once they have been seen they too will be recognized.







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POPULARized: Barkley L. Hendricks+Kehinde Wiley

“Every generation needs regeneration”-Charles H. Spurgeon


Why does the image of an older man spending precious time talking to a younger man warm the hearts of many? I believe that it’s because we become witnesses to one of the most authentic moments in life-regeneration! This is where energy is transferred and power is given to one generation from another generation to make it his own and then pass it along. Without such a process we as a culture would be extinct. Imagine Hendricks and Wiley respectively as the older man and younger man and their works of art as a snapshot of that moment in time, where the power of style was transferred from one creative master to another creative genius in order to re-create and re-invent it as his own history. These Yale men may be different on various levels, yet it is apparent that they share a common link: to stylize the African-American and for Kehinde the African Diaspora. Style and pose are important; if not imperative factors that give both generations’ works such a rich voice.

A voice that echoes across generations yet makes no physical sound. The triumph and reverence is seen deep within the eyes of the people who are viewing the men and women posing. Posing, so that they may present or introduce the African-American to the world and to an academic art world in which they are underrepresented and so that the African Diaspora could assume a position of authority via Kehinde’s Renaissance & Baroque approach. Not only do these men have an eye for style, as seen in the use of fashion and portraiture and textile patterns in their works, Hendricks and Wiley are amazing colorists. These are my type of men and they have sat a young woman down and allowed their works to resonate within me; therefore, giving me power to take their history and re-create it and re-invent it into my own herstory.


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POPULARized: KAWS ONE

I have been a fan of KAWS ONE's work for sometime and would love to own a piece one day, both Kanye and Pharrell own work, (I'm still trying to get lunch with them). The Clipse will also feature work by the talented KAWS on their new album. There are two main reasons for my admiration towards KAWS, my infinite love of color, pop art and any artist who breaks barriers and mixes art collectors and skaters in the same room is cool by me...loves it!

I plan to attend KAWS's exhibit at Honor Fraser Gallery in LA which begins Feb. 21st and ends April 4th 2009...will certainly take pics and update the site after.

Enjoy the video and become inspired to Live What You Love

1 Reason 2 Admire Kanye

If you read my last post, you would know that I have a serious admiration for Kanye & Pharrell's artistic style and visions, from what I have seen in the media we may also have similar personality traits, (I would love to meet them both one day just to find out for myself and marvel at their art collections).

So, it's officially a Kanye West day for me! I just played "Stronger" which was my 07 anthem followed by "Say You Will", that song just does it for me, while browsing the net. Usually, I get up every morning and read anything I can get my hands on just to see what's going on in the art/entertainment industry (the good stuff). I began a content fast; so, I don't cater to reading the downward spiral info (yes, I have read a few in the past) but it doesn't inspire me; so, I must save room in this head of mine for only marvelous things.


*pictures via So Haute


"Welcome to heartbreak", doesn't the sight of West's home makes your heart hurt from the sheer pain of beauty. A sandblasted modern door greets you and once opened the beautiful walnut flooring holds its on against the bronze orange painted Hermes shopping bag sculpture by Johnathan Sigler. There is nothing like Campbell's soup in the kitchen which of course are iconic Andy Warhol prints. Ernie Barnes, one of my favorite artists and actually he was also a football player created a commissioned piece entitled "A Life Restored" for Kanye after his near fatal accident. The living room has of course non-other than Takashi Murakami's acrylic and canvas piece "Time Bokam-Missing in the Eyes-Red". Just when you thought it was over Kanye commissioned six pieces of artwork (only 4 shown here) from Burton Morris inspired by "The Jetsons", he also owns a "Smacks" and a "Big Boy" piece from the same artist. The office is very colorful filled with pillows by Takashi, a screen print by Russell Young, Eames leather swivel chair and Maurice Calka's boomerang desk is ridiculously scrumptious. Not only does Kanye do luxury, modern and contemporary like no other he has the audacity to have a framed signature of my man Andy Warhol...seriously invite me over for lunch!

Have a Gorgeous Day and rememeber to "Live What You Love"...Smooches!