https://fadmagazine.com/2023/08/07/phillips-to-launch-dropshop-a-groundbreaking-new-digital-platform-for-works-by-contemporary-artists-makers/

https://artplugged.co.uk/phillips-announces-new-digital-platform-presenting-works-by-cj-hendry-and-other-contemporary-artists/

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/01/arts/music/brandi-carlile-broken-horses.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

It reminds me of this Bas Jan Ader image of him crying and the text underneath it says, “I have so much to say but I just don’t know how to tell you.” There’s the subject of the misery or the search for authenticity, which, no matter what your race, gender, class is, what we all are seeking is the impossibility. I think that there’s a way in which we can be satisfied with the journey as much as the object.  You probably more than anyone know that the act of arriving at a beautiful piece of writing or a beautiful bit of painting is only part of the story. It’s grappling with it that allows you to really have not only a sense of your own work but an appreciation of the work of others, to understand exactly why this is so graceful or why this is so painful or why this is so beautiful. It’s incredibly thin glass, and we’re all walking on it. I think the tightrope act is to be able to keep up the illusion, and the strength is the fragility of this kind of spectacle.

Documentary Campana Brothers by Fernando and Humberto
This documentary tells the story of Fernando and Humberto Campana through a narrative of affection, investigating the references and life experiences that gave the work of the duo a prominent place in the world of design in Brazil and abroad. Composed by the brothers themselves via conversations that intersect and complement each other, the film revisits their memories, stories, places and images that influenced the Campanas, while drawing parallels between imaginary and physical spaces, between childhood and adulthood, rural and urban, interior and exterior, exploring moments of individuality and complicity between the two brothers.

Directed and edited by Gabriela Bernd
Cinematography: Fernando Laszlo, Gabriela Bernd and Marcos Vilas Boas
Portuguese with English captions, 2016

Very happy to see the Black Rock 40 event from earlier this year featured in Departures Magazine.  This is the shop’s third pop-up shop around the world.  The first was in Venice in conjunction with Kehinde Wiley’s “Archaeology of Silence” exhibition.  The 2nd installation was at Maison de la Culture Douta Seck in Dakar, Senegal and the most recent was at Afro Punk right here in Brooklyn.  More to come!

https://www.departures.com/arts/kehinde-wiley-black-rock-senegal-dakar-2