{"id":182127,"date":"2015-04-05T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=182127"},"modified":"2015-04-03T09:42:41","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T13:42:41","slug":"discovered-in-harlem-visual-arist-kalup-linzys-star-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=182127","title":{"rendered":"Discovered in Harlem visual arist Kalup Linzy&#8217;s star rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target='_blank' rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/04\/03\/kalup-linzy_n_6987546.html?utm_hp_ref=black-voices&amp;ir=Black+Voices\">This post<\/a> was originally published on <a target='_blank' rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/04\/03\/kalup-linzy_n_6987546.html?utm_hp_ref=black-voices&amp;ir=Black+Voices\">this site<\/a>.   <a target='_blank' rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/04\/03\/kalup-linzy_n_6987546.html?utm_hp_ref=black-voices&amp;ir=Black+Voices\">Click here<\/a> to read the post and view byline and photo credits etc.<\/p><p>Mr. Linzy first caught the art world\u2019s attention in 2005 as the breakout artist of two shows, one at the Studio Museum in Harlem, the other at Taxter &amp; Spengemann, a Chelsea gallery. \u201cA star is born,\u201d wrote Holland Cotter, an art critic for The New York Times. \u201cHis name is Kalup Linzy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Linzy, born in Florida and based in New York, creates low-budget videos inspired by daytime soap operas, with Linzy himself donning a variety of characters, from talented and naive struggling starlets to conniving vixens who will do anything to get to the top. I<\/p>\n<p>n his current solo exhibition, &#8220;Art.Jobs.Lullabies,&#8221; Linzy adds to and remixes his ongoing drama-drenched mythology, divulging the lives of performance artist Pisces and video artist\/singer Kaye, among others.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/o-CHEWING-900.jpg\" alt=\"chewing\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/04\/fashion\/performance-artist-kalup-linzy-and-the-art-of-being-a-character.html?_r=0\" target=\"_hplink\">The timing of Kalup\u2019s work is a little bit off and causes a delay that is really funny,<\/a>&#8221; Thomas Lax, exhibition coordinator at the Studio Museum in Harlem, told The New York Times. &#8220;All his characters are trying to approximate an ideal, but they\u2019re just behind or ahead of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post was originally published on this site. Click here to read the post and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":182128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[101912,124717256],"tags":[124717357,124717358],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182127"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182127"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182136,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182127\/revisions\/182136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/182128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}