Rocket- Another Second Chance
This song is from LA band Rocket‘s 2025 album, R is for Rocket.
They are playing at The Bellwether in Los Angeles on Friday, 8/14/26, with Momma and Dan English.
Aug 102026
Aug 062026
Artist and muralist Egypt Hagen created With Thunder in Our Hearts for the 2022 edition of St. Pete’s SHINE Mural Festival. Her most recent projects can be found on Instagram.
From her website about the mural:
With Thunder in Our Hearts celebrates the courage to create, dream, and flourish. Through symbolic gestures of offering and exchange, the mural reflects on how compassion, creativity, and shared experiences can spark transformation within ourselves and our communities.
Her work can also be found brightening the walls of Ybor Urban Mart, located in the Ybor City neighborhood in Tampa.
Aug 062026
Leonard A. Harmon, “Untitled”, c.1980s, Oil on masonite
Leonard D. Harmon, “Last Copper Moon”, 2025, Acrylic, spray paint, oxidized copper shavings, paper on wood panel
Leonard D. Harmon, “Last Copper Moon”, 2025 (detail)
Delaware Art Museum‘s Living Indigenous showcases and celebrates Indigenous communities and artists in multiple locations in the museum. The exhibition is part of the museum’s programming for the 250th anniversary of the United States.
Developed in partnership with the Nanticoke Indian Museum, one room dedicated to works created by Indigenous artists includes paintings by Leonard A. Harmon and his nephew, Leonard D. Harmon.
From the museum and artist about Last Copper Moon (pictured above):
Leonard D. Harmon notes the rich artistic legacy that precedes him. He explains, “I draw inspiration from my ancestors to infuse a modern twist into traditional arts.” This painting references the architectural forms his uncle, Leonard A. Harmon, was creating in the 1980s. A copper moon, or total lunar eclipse, is a sacred Indigenous occurrence, and the images Harmon includes refer to associated rituals.
The exhibition continues upstairs with two different series of portraits of members of Delaware’s Indigenous communities– Will Wilson‘s Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange (CIPX) and Andre’ L. Wright, Jr.’s Indigenous Faces of Wilmington. In 2022 the museum invited Wilson to continue his CIPX project in Delaware and facilitated a photoshoot of citizens of the Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware (The Original People) and the Nanticoke Indian Tribe (The Tidewater People). That same year the museum also commissioned Andre’ L. Wright, Jr. to create a project showcasing diverse Wilmingtonians, two of which are pictured below.
Two portraits by Andre’ L. Wright, Jr. from his series “Indigenous Faces of Wilmington”
Living Indigenous is on view until 8/23/26 and the museum is free to visit every Thursday from 4-8pm.
Aug 042026
In Miguel Horn‘s 2021 artwork ContraFuerte, his figures, made from aluminum plates, appear to be holding up a bridge between two buildings. Located on Cuthbert Street, an alley off of 18th Street in downtown Philadelphia, it was created as part of the city’s Percent for Art program.
For additional information on the work, check out this article from WHYY.
Aug 032026
Widowspeak- If You Change
This song is from NY band Widowspeak‘s 2026 album, Roses.
They are currently on tour and playing at Lodge Room in Los Angeles on Friday, 8/7/26, with Dead Gowns.
Jul 312026
Kota the Friend- Long Beach II
Every month I listen to the majority of bands and musicians who are playing in Los Angeles and select some for a monthly playlist. It includes a variety of genres and usually newer work by the artists.
This month includes new music by Black Moth Super Rainbow, dance arts center, Gretchen Klempa, Black Milk, and Kurt Vile.
The song above is from Kota the Friend‘s 2026 album, Just Happy to Be Here!
Below are July’s selections.
Jul 292026
Jenny Holzer was born today, July 29th, in 1950. Pictured in this post are some of her famous Truisms, when they were on view at Akron Art Museum.
Her latest exhibition, Wrong Answers, is currently at the Serralves Museum in Portugal, closing November 1st.
Jul 282026
Betye Saar, “Takin’ A Chance on Luv”, 1984, pigment on cotton sateen, created in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum
Los Angeles artist Betye Saar passed away on Sunday, July 26th, at 99 years old, just a few days before her 100th birthday. Saar is best known for her assemblage pieces that confronted racism and sexism, often incorporating spiritual and mystical elements into the work as well.
Takin’ A Chance on Luv, pictured above, was part of the group exhibition Some American Dreams at The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, which closed in June.
The short documentary below, created by Christine Turner for LACMA‘s Art+Film Initiative, features the artist at 93 discussing her work.
Jul 272026
Caproni Brothers, “The Boxer at Rest”, 19th century Painted plaster cast from the original bronze which was produced between the late fourth and second centuries BCE
Lisa Brice “Untitled”, 2025 Pigment and natural water-soluble binders on linen
Jeffrey Gibson, (l to r) “Power, Power, Power”, 2017, “People Like Us”, 2014, and “You Can Feel It All Over”, 2015, Repurposed punching bags, glass beads, artificial sinew
Rashid Johnson, “Self-Portrait Laying on Jack Johnson‘s Grave”, 2006, Durst Lambda print mounted on panel
Approaching the front steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, you will find people of all ages and backgrounds taking photos with the statue of Rocky out front, often imitating his famous pose. Through a variety of works from antiquity to the present day, Rising Up looks at the history of this statue, the meanings attached to monuments, and the allure of boxers and boxing culture.
From the museum about the exhibition:
Blending the worlds of art, sports, and popular culture, Rising Up takes on the life of monuments by exploring the meanings and mythologies of the Rocky statue. The exhibition looks to the statue of the most famous Philadelphian who never lived as a way to better understand our complex and vital relationships to our public monuments.
The statue first appeared on-screen in the Oscar-winning Rocky film series. The third installment, Rocky III (1982), featured the dedication of a monument that celebrated the boxer as both an underdog and a hero. The movie-made statue was placed outside the actual museum during filming, a dynamic blurring of art and life that continues to this day. Since that introduction, and through the statue’s departure and prolonged absence from the museum grounds to its prodigal return to the steps, the statue has sparked debate over its aesthetic value and its role in the city. Today, the power of the Rocky statue as a monument stems from its ability to summon public participation.
From antiquity to modernity, Hollywood to contemporary art, Rising Up spotlights both popular narratives and undertold stories surrounding the Rocky statue. Each gallery offers a response to the exhibition’s central question — why do millions of people visit the Rocky statue at the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art each year? — and further explores the relationship between art, boxing, and civic identity. It offers a renewed context to consider the statue through works and artifacts that reflect on the deep legacies of boxing monuments across time.
Rising Up marks the first time that the Rocky statue has been displayed inside the museum, explored alongside Philadelphia’s landmark boxing culture and multigenerational artists’ interpretations of sport and society. At its core, the exhibition looks at how monuments are made — by artists and by us — through the lens of the Rocky statue and the ways people engage, debate, and gather around this site of memory.
This exhibition closes on 8/2/26.
Jul 272026
Nation of Language- Inept Apollo
This song is from Brooklyn band Nation of Language’s 2025 album, Dance Called Memory.
They will be opening for Death Cab for Cutie at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday, 8/2, and Monday, 8/3/26.