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Tag: Grand Museo del Duomo

September 17, 2018March 1, 2019

Florence: The art!

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Went to the @dallasmuseumart to view their exhibit BamanaMud Cloth: From Mali to the World (small, but great) and passed this beauty on the way: Elephant mask (mbap mteng) from the Bamileke peoples of Cameroon

Real talk: I’ve been obsessed with biscuits since our southern road trip this summer! This one came from @tribalalldaycafe and it did NOT disappoint (neither did the rest of our meal!)

“To create this imaginary scene, Wendy Red Star borrowed her composition from Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper…By conflating the Last Supper’s story of betrayal and, ultimately, death with the American tradition of Thanksgiving. Red Star reveals the holiday to be a myth - one with ongoing, apocalyptic effects…Red Star also invokes an alternative reality: sitting at the center of the table, dressed in her full Apsáalooke regalia with her eyes diverted, she affirms Indigenous peoples’ ongoing resistance to settler colonialism.”

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