{"id":9112,"date":"2012-02-07T05:59:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T13:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/wikidiary\/?p=9112"},"modified":"2012-02-11T08:19:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T16:19:21","slug":"on-february-7th-2012-detroits-african-bead-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/2012\/02\/07\/on-february-7th-2012-detroits-african-bead-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"On February 7th, 2012, DETROIT&#8217;S AFRICAN BEAD MUSEUM&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9113\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9113\" style=\"width: 476px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/wikidiary\/2012\/02\/07\/on-february-7th-2012-detroits-african-bead-museum\/2012-02-07-p1300266\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9113\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-9113\" title=\"African Bead Museum\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/wikidiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/2012-02-07-P1300266-476x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"476\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9113\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olayami Dabls in front of his African Bead Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230;was the first stop in the first hour of my first day in this really real, amazing\/puzzling, invigorating\/unnerving, fascinating\/shocking, picturesque\/grotesque town with a real &#8216;edge&#8217; as they say, I have heard so much about but never seen (where I am giving a talk tomorrow at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=haeg+Wayne+State&amp;source=web&amp;cd=2&amp;ved=0CCkQFjAB&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fart.wayne.edu%2Ffiles%2Fhaeg020212.pdf&amp;ei=W342T4jJF47XiQLfq6CKCg&amp;usg=AFQjCNH6gaCNsoy7GjDnGWzSlh38Vwvtww\" target=\"_blank\">Wayne State University<\/a> and spending some time teaching and doing projects next fall) &#8211; which was so appropriate, since Olayami Dabls&#8217;s museum and bead gallery, plus the collaboratively created facade murals, vacant lot installations, public stages, and elaborately decorated abandoned buildings (founded 1985, and in it&#8217;s current location since 1998) epitomize all that is amazing and unique about how artists are working expansively and collectively in this city today. (read Vince Carducci&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/motownreviewofart.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Motown Art Review<\/a> for local insights and check out Dabl&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbad.org\/about.html\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> for more info)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;was the first stop in the first hour of my first day in this really real, amazing\/puzzling, invigorating\/unnerving, fascinating\/shocking, picturesque\/grotesque town with a real &#8216;edge&#8217; as they say,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1309,684,1781,1312,1310,1337],"class_list":["post-9112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-2","tag-african-bead-museum","tag-art","tag-detroit","tag-motown-art-review","tag-olayami-dabls","tag-vince-carducci"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9112"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9116,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9112\/revisions\/9116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}