A big reason I started this newsletter is because art is (or at least def should be made more) accessible to everyone — even if you didn’t go to some fancy school or were otherwise exposed to fancy intellectual living and talking (you know, the kind of homes where people don’t have to worry about survival and talk about stuff like art and movies and books around the dinner table). As the first child of immigrants who came to this country with very little (and so didn’t have too much time for talking about let alone buying frivolous things), I certainly didn’t grow up that way — yet became a lover, and collector, of art.
I went to the same show at LACMA and it was my first encounter with Mehretu. I was mesmerized! Thanks for sharing!!
Beautiful-- loved this and cannot wait for more <3