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@heyacordeiro.bsky.socialSep 17, 2026, 6:33 PM

Derrick Adams’ “Navigator 2” from the ViewMaster exhibit at Boston’s ICA (2026) and the fall grounds of Clark Art Museum (2021) For this week's #PalacesAndGardens theme #PompAndPatterns #EastCoastKin #Art #textiles #Fall #BostonICA #ClarkArt #DerrickAdams #ViewMaster #Museum

LEFT TO RIGHT Navigator 2, 2013 Faux brick, paint, glitter, wood, fabric, and metal Courtesy the artist and Gagosian Figure in the Urban Landscape 43, 2019 Acrylic, ink, graphite, grip tape, model cars, fabric, paper, and nylon on wood panel Collection of Carole Server and Oliver Frankel, New York In his Figure in the Urban Landscape series, Adams depicts the everyday scenes of a city. This portrait is made from painted surfaces, collage, fabric, and toy cars, combining elements drawn from modernist abstraction, African sculpture, and the artist's own life. Bodies are flattened, and the city streets are reduced to bold blocks of gridded colors. Miniature model cars seem to drive across the painted roads, drawing attention to the city as both real and imagined. The grid suggests movement, but also control, highlighting how individuals navigate city blocks and neighborhoods. As the figure moves through this scene, environment shifts and adjusts around them. By focusing on everyday movement, Adams opens space to imagine different stories shaped by self-determination.Fall trees colored green, yellow, red, brownish orange. Black trunks and some triangular bent branches on the left side of the frame
@heyacordeiro.bsky.socialSep 8, 2026, 10:42 PM

Thick thighs get censored, so facts: Nymphs and Satyr by William-Adolphe Bouguereau 1873 (see alt)
It’s ginormous;
K2, age 11, beholding its much larger-than-life for the 1st time: “Those ladies sure don’t miss leg day”
#ECK #AlphabetChallenge #WeekJforjocular #ClarkArt #ThickTrunkTuesday #art

Robert Sterling Clark discovered the piece in storage and acquired it in 1942. The piece is currently on display at the Clark Art Institute located in Williamstown, Massachusetts. According to the Clark Institute, in the painting, which is based on the Greek mythology, "a group of nymphs have been surprised, while bathing in a secluded pond, by a lascivious satyr. Some of the nymphs have retreated into the shadows on the right; others, braver than their friends, are trying to dampen the satyr's ardor by pulling him into the cold water – one of the satyr's hooves is already wet and he clearly wants to go no further. Bouguereau’s working methods were traditional; he made a number of sketches and drawings of carefully posed human figures in complicated interconnected poses, linking them together in this wonderfully rhythmical composition." The painting is the largest and one of the most beloved of the Clark collection History: Purchased for 35,000 francs by the American art collector and speculator John Wolfe on 26 June, 1873, it was displayed in his mansion for many years alongside other high-style French academic paintings. It was sold at auction in 1888, after which the painting was displayed in the bar of the Hoffman House Hotel, New York Cityuntil 1901, when it was bought and stored in a warehouse, the buyer hoping to keep its 'offensive' content from the public. (From Wikipedia)