Name/Title
NYT, NOV 30, 2017, ARMANDO HART, 2018Entry/Object ID
2021.20Description
Silver background with large red/purple letters "You Send US Bombs"Artwork Details
Medium
canvas, Paper, embroidery floss, GraphiteContext
In 2010, Dianna Frid began an archive of obituaries from the New York Times to produce Words from Obituaries, an ongoing series of embroidered words chosen from particular obituaries with the artist’s chosen color-coded shades corresponding to the profession or vocation of the deceased person. The two works NYT, NOV 30, 2017, ARMANDO HART (2018) and NYT, MAY 24, 2018, LUIS POSADA CARRILES (2020) correspond to the obituaries of two Cuban-born men—one an anti-Fidel Castro political dissident and head of a terrorist organization, and the other a close ally of Castro.
Frid explains: “As I sort through hundreds of obituaries I find, in a few of them, samplings of phrases that are just right. They seize a moment in language that operates both within and outside the source. I do not choose these words for their narrative or honorific value, but rather for an urgency that is external, yet related, to those values."Acquisition
Accession
2021.20-21Source or Donor
Alan Koppel GalleryAcquisition Method
PurchaseCredit Line
Courtesy of the artist and Alan Koppel GalleryInscription/Signature/Marks
Type
InscriptionLocation
CenterTranscription
You Send US BombsLanguage
EnglishMaterial/Technique
EmbroideryLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
EmbroideryNomenclature Primary Object Term
NeedleworkNomenclature Class
ArtNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsLOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
Bomb attacks, Embroidery