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☆ A Millennial Weaver Carries a Centuries-Old Craft Forward
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-18 | by ( Patricia Leigh Brown | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Spiders are weavers. The Navajo artist and weaver Melissa Cody knows this palpably. It also infuses “Melissa Cody: Webbed Skies,” the first major solo exhibition of the artist’s work, which is on view at MoMA PS1 through Sept. 9. in a co-production with the São Paulo Museum of Art in Brazil (known as MASP). The exhibition is part of the overdue recognition of Indigenous artists by museums and other institutions, from the recent retrospective of Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith’s work at the Whitney Museum of American Art to the expanding roster of artists at the Venice Biennale. Cody, 41, is a millennial at the forefront of an art form harking back millenniums — at once building on tradition and joyously venturing beyond it.

Persons: Melissa Cody, Man, Jaune Organizations: MoMA, São Paulo Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American, Venice Biennale Locations: Brazil, Venice, Cody

☆ It’s 50 Degrees in Minneapolis. Goodbye, Ice Shanties.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( Patricia Leigh Brown | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It’s not every art installation that instructs visitors to take small steps like a penguin. Then again, there’s nothing quite like the Art Shanty Projects, in which intrepid Minnesota artists in insulated jumpsuits and ice cleats annually recreate traditional ice fishing huts, called shanties, in their own eccentric style on a frozen lake in Minneapolis. The idea that 19 artists’ shanties would rise on Lake Harriet — Bde’ Unma in the Dakota language — for this three-weekend event was never a foregone conclusion. Already this winter there have been four fatalities from people driving vehicles onto the ice. In late December, more than 100 people had to be rescued from an ice floe that broke free from a fishing area on a northern Minnesota lake.

Persons: It’s, Lake Harriet — Bde Organizations: Lake Harriet Locations: Minnesota, Minneapolis, Lake, Dakota

☆ Saving Praise Houses Before Their African Lineage Is Forgotten
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-23 | by ( Patricia Leigh Brown | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Kay Colleton will never forget the time she first laid eyes on Moving Star Hall, a tiny white clapboard building with a leaning chimney, a crooked roof and a storied history. The hall is a rare surviving example of a praise house — humble one-room structures used as places of worship by enslaved people on coastal plantations throughout the Carolinas and Georgia. They have been providing spiritual sustenance for generations of African Americans ever since. “There were no keys, so we just came right in,” Pastor Kay recalled of that day in 1989. Alive and hopping, Moving Star Hall is an outlier among the handfuls of praise houses still standing in varying states of repair, most tucked away on rural roads through dark tunnels of oaks laden with Spanish moss.

Persons: Kay Colleton, ” Pastor Kay, I’ll, ‘ You’ve, ’ ” Pastor Kay, — Organizations: Star Locations: Carolinas, Georgia, barrenness, Johns, Africa

☆ ‘Run With Joy and Love’
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-17 | by ( Patricia Leigh Brown | Marlena Sloss | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

At “Ready … set … exercise!” Taylor started pacing his fellow runners around the track, the trickiest stretch being a right angle that funnels into a gap between chain link fences. When Taylor started running, “everything connected mentally and spiritually,” he said. Taylor’s return to San Quentin is part of an extraordinary year in his life. He’s one of the subjects of “26.2 to Life: Inside The San Quentin Prison Marathon,” a documentary film by Christine Yoo. “Him getting out shows that just because you’re a lifer doesn’t mean you’re going to be in here forever.”

Persons: ” Taylor, Darren Settlemyer, Taylor, ”, “, Christine Yoo, “ Markelle, Him Organizations: San Quentin Prison Locations: San Quentin, Santa Barbara

☆ Relationships Carved From Clay Bring New Partners to Museums
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-13 | by ( Patricia Leigh Brown | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Claudia Mitchell, a potter from Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico, gathers clay on a mesa between two sandstone rock formations, hammer and pick at the ready. Through her vessels, “the spirit of all those people is brought back to life,” she said. “Our past and present become the future in the pottery.”Now she is helping to broaden the understanding of American art. The objects were all selected by members of the Pueblo Pottery Collective and the labels highlight Pueblo peoples’ voices and perspectives, rather than the traditional museum label style. (The show, through June 2024, continues by appointment in a more intimate setting at the Vilcek Foundation in Manhattan, before traveling to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Saint Louis Art Museum.)

Persons: Claudia Mitchell, —, Lucy M, Lewis, Mitchell, ”, “ Organizations: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vilcek Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Saint Louis Art Museum Locations: Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico, Pueblo, Clay, American, Manhattan

☆ There’s No Uber or Lyft. There Is a Communal Tesla.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Patricia Leigh Brown | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Three mornings a week, Herminia Ibarra makes her way to a fleet of sparkling electric vehicles lined up in a dusty alley alongside a former diesel repair shop. Of the five Chevy Bolts, three Tesla Ys, two Volkswagen e-Golfs and a BMW i3, she always tries to snag her favorite: the red Bolt set up with her Bluetooth. The shop, which has a Mexican flag wrapped around its staircase, is the nerve center of Green Raiteros, an E.V. ride-sharing initiative in Huron, Calif., that shuttles low-income residents, many of them elderly, to medical appointments for free. Enter the Green Raiteros.

Persons: Herminia Ibarra, Bolts, farmworkers, Ibarra, Rey León Organizations: Volkswagen, BMW i3, Bluetooth, Equity, Policy Institute Locations: Mexican, Huron , Calif, Huron’s

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