{"id":12350,"date":"2015-06-26T07:40:33","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T07:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/claytoncubitt-one-thursday-in-1982-jean-michel\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T17:21:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T00:21:29","slug":"claytoncubitt-one-thursday-in-1982-jean-michel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/claytoncubitt-one-thursday-in-1982-jean-michel\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-12350 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/claytoncubitt-one-thursday-in-1982-jean-michel\/attachment\/12351\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_nqihf6REwp1qz8guyo1_640-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_nqihf6REwp1qz8guyo1_640-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_nqihf6REwp1qz8guyo1_640-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_nqihf6REwp1qz8guyo1_640-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_nqihf6REwp1qz8guyo1_640.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/claytoncubitt.tumblr.com\/post\/122455588369\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">claytoncubitt<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>One Thursday in 1982, Jean-Michel tells Suzanne to stand up and walk, they are going to the MoMA. He tells Suzanne to wear his clothes. She ties his pants around her waist with a rope. His sweater hangs down to her knees.<\/p>\n<p>At the museum Jean-Michel takes a bottle of water out of his coat and walks through the halls sprinkling the water here and there around him. \u201cI\u2019d piss like a dog if I could,\u201d he says, as they wander past paintings by Pollock, Picasso, Kline and Braque. Suzanne does not even ask what he is doing. She knows this is one of his voodoo tricks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are no black men in museums,\u201d he says. \u201cTry counting\u2026\u201d Suzanne cannot find even one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is another white man\u2019s cotton plantation,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n<p>When they get back home Jean-Michel puts on a Charlie Parker tape and tells Suzanne to be very quiet.<\/p>\n<p>It begins to rain outside, a slow, dark rain that will not stop for three days. \u2013<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1GAR85L\">Jennifer Clement, Widow Basquiat<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(via Clayton Cubitt on Instagram <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1LGyuOj\">http:\/\/ift.tt\/1LGyuOj<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>claytoncubitt: One Thursday in 1982, Jean-Michel tells Suzanne to stand up and walk, they are going to the MoMA. He tells Suzanne to wear his clothes. She ties his pants around her waist with a rope. His sweater hangs down to her knees. At the museum Jean-Michel takes a bottle of water out of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3dc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12352,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12350\/revisions\/12352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}