This is Brandan “B-Mike” Odums. Visual artist, filmmaker and founder of the urban art space in the city of New Orleans dubbed StudioBE. The street artist that squeezes beauty from the bandos and prefers his resistance in living color.
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You Can’t Beat Pablo If Ya Work Ain’t Sellin: Appropriation, Truth, and Capitalism
On a larger, more systemic scale, cultural appropriation only becomes a problem because of the capitalistic commodification of art and culture, which places artistic importance on a hierarchal scale of profitability.
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Open Casket: The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain
I wonder how it feels to have the ability to extract, gauge, or even deny your artwork of a political identity.
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