{"id":24765,"date":"2016-03-02T05:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=24765"},"modified":"2016-03-02T09:40:54","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T17:40:54","slug":"victor-solomon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/02\/victor-solomon\/","title":{"rendered":"victor solomon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/VictorSolomon.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24808\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/VictorSolomon.jpg\" alt=\"VictorSolomon\" width=\"584\" height=\"3869\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Um,\u00a0I played basketball in high school&#8230; but I don&#8217;t remember it being quite this fancy!\u00a0This is the stunning, and luxurious, glass work of American artist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.literallyballing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Victor Solomon<\/a>. All of these pieces are from his series,\u00a0&#8220;Literally Balling&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Stained glass. Historically reserved for the religious, for the opulent, for royalty, here stained glass is juxtaposed to arresting effect. Literally Balling connotes a host of disparate narratives: a religious devotion to sport; the athlete as modern-day king of court; the proletarian drift of basketball from project pick-up games to newfound cultural heights; even a cautionary comment on the fragility of luxury.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you happen to be in New York, this work is currently showing at <a href=\"http:\/\/josephgrossgallery.com\/current-exhibitions\/literally-balling\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Gross Gallery<\/a>\u00a0until March 19th, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Um,\u00a0I played basketball in high school&#8230; but I don&#8217;t remember it being quite this fancy!\u00a0This is the stunning, and luxurious, glass work of American artist\u00a0Victor Solomon. All of these pieces are from his series,\u00a0&#8220;Literally Balling&#8221;: Stained glass. Historically reserved for the religious, for the opulent, for royalty, here stained glass is juxtaposed to arresting effect. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,549,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24765"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24809,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24765\/revisions\/24809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}