Saturday in the Park

Photographer and public historian, Sola Olosunde, captures the final weekend of Edgar Heap of Birds' Native Hosts installation at Murray Park, 11th St. & 45th Ave., Long Island City, NY 11101, on October 30, 2022. 

See the photo essay here. 

“Of course all good and productive public art is often created for a community,” Edgar Heap of Birds said. “These citizens can use the work, add to it and/or be enlightened. Effective public art is not to only ‘decorate.’ The community adds to the work by playing/being active on the court paintings.”

“Our courts speak from a Sovereign perspective, in that to honor the earth, seas, animals, sky, natural world is a Native focus and priority,” he said. “Sovereignty is about origins and honor to offer the good as well as protect what we hold sacred, such as our youth and elders, those entities should always come first along with our natural world.”

Read the full essay written by Blake Gillespie at www.sacredhoopsbook.com.

LOST [in translation] arrives on the twenty-year anniversary of one of  sports most iconic, and one of sports media’s most exploitative, moments.  LOST [in translation] re-focuses the lens on this moment in order to highlight what the media overlooked and correct a misrepresentation that has persisted for two decades...      

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Andrew Keh writes for the New York Times about the rising visibility of basketball art. 

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Image: An exhibit of basketball-inspired art called “To the Hoop” at the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, N.C., including “Akhet 1” by David Huffman and “Well Hung” by Suzanne McClelland. Martin W. Kane for UNCG University Communications, 2020.

Blake Gillespie, journalist, photographer, and writer at Sacred Hoops, visits Faith Ringgold's  court at St.Nicholas Park in Harlem and helps Project Backboard renovate a court with artist Andrea Bergart at McCaffrey Playground, in New York City.

See the photos and read the essay here. 

A new book brings together the works of 250 artists, among them Richard Avedon, Salvador Dalí, Keith Haring and Andy Warhol, to offer an inclusive view of the sport from the modern lens. 

Huck Magazine

Posted Wednesday 19th May, 2021 

Text by Miss Rosen 

Photography © Joel Meyerowitz (main image)

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