Save the date from February 23rd – 26th, 2017 with a very limited number of discount tickets available for purchase beginning Friday, February 25, 2016 2PM CST online as well as onsite at Envision
Lost In Sound
For the second year in a row, Envision 2016 Festival – Costa Rica is proud to announce that International General Admission tickets for its annual gathering are officially SOLD OUT
David Hammons (born 1943) is a sculptor, installation and performance African American artist from Springfield IL in the 1960’s
Hammons yaard – Bliz-aard Ball Sale (1983), a performance piece in which Hammons situates himself alongside street vendors in downtown Manhattan in order to sell snowballs which are priced according to size.
About feature image: David Hammons, “How Ya Like Me Now?,” 1988 (Photo: John Kennard)
David Hammons’s 1988 billboard-sized portrait of Jesse Jackson, the African-American civil rights activist and 1984 and ’88 Democratic presidential candidate, turns him caucasian, blonde and blue-eyed. The title, “How Ya Like Me Now?” (from the title of Kool Moe Dee’s 1987 rap) is scrawled across the painting’s bottom—defiantly questioning how race colors people’s opinions.