Tiff Massey’s exhibit, “7 MILE + LIVERNOIS” is rocking Detroit’s Institute of Arts right now like some jewelry.
Her work reminds me of being in New York in college at some hifalutin museum seeing Richard Serra’s work for the first time. The tall copper looking sculptures you could walk around.
But she connecting her work to community and cultural artifacts of Blackness that reach from Detroit down to Mississippi and well beyond.
Questioning the system, she doesn’t box herself into an anti-capitalist posture for snaps like others love to do.
Not afraid to speak value and wealth into Blackness.
And she keeps it hip hop, not afraid to connect the dots between her work and the contemporary conversation that genre evokes and the tools it offers.
Rap Fiction be like that.
Check out her work at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
If you are a Detroiter, you probably already seen this twice like the rest of us. If you haven’t, please stop playing yourself and change that.
Its worth a visit to see me if you are an out-towner.
If not feasible, follow her on instagram and facebook and her website at
https://www.instagram.com/tiff_massey/
https://www.facebook.com/tiff.massey
https://www.tiffmassey.com/
TALK ABOUT BURYING THE LEAD
BEEF VOLUME I, the audio is not playing, either.
The release date will be next Thursday, July 25th before 8am.
I am excited for everyone to hear it.
In the meantime, I will be dropping the audio in snippets on facebook and instagram soon.
Here are both of those if you are not following me there.
https://www.instagram.com/andrewrobertcolom/
https://www.facebook.com/andrew.colom
Please read, like, and comment on BEEF VOLUME I.
Some of you got like 60% through and quit on me for scrolling.
The best lines are at the end.
Struggle through there for me just a little more, please.
Share Story ARC’s Substack with 1 friend. I know its lame but do it for me. I would do it for you. Maybe, if you asked me twice.
the audio is so good!!