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Jasmine Martin 🧿

@jasminemrtn

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Art Advisor. Cultural Strategist.
NYT Bestselling Author.
• Bridging Music, Art, Fashion & Film
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NYTimes bestseller. because of y’all. NYTimes bestselling writer. because of y’all.

thank you.

that’s it. that’s the tweet. by @jasminemrtn

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3 years ago

Use @instagram (and books, movies, and podcasts) to learn about Black Art!

So yes, Art History classes (especially those taught by @doctorkelliejones and @debwillisphoto) and degrees come in handy but in today’s world there are so many ways to learn about Black Art and the incredible artists who fall under that broad spectrum.

Many of us use this platform as a connective base to forge and fortify relationships around the world and in between in person gallery visits, gala circuits, and fairs. But it’s also a great way for new art collectors or people interested in collecting art to begin learning the many names, faces, and styles of those already in the epicenter.

I’ve compiled a **BRIEF** list of the resources I’ve used to help me learn more about Black art, along with some of the people who have shaped my journey, are thought and collecting leaders, are writing about Black art, and overall contributing in incredibly influential ways.

Know them. Follow them. Watch them. Learn from them. And please — add your recommendations below!!

What’s the easiest way for you to learn more about art these days? taken in New York, New York by @jasminemrtn

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2 years ago

Until next lifetime, Granny. 🤍

You fought with everything in you, every day, for as long as you wanted. And then you got real clear with the Lord and said, “I’m ready if you are.” And ready the Lord was.

I was in your body too, you know. When you were pregnant with my Mother. I’ve been thinking about that a lot, returning to your home soil to return you to the ground, me being inside her, inside you, and all that was encoded within us while within you. All that was encoded within my Mother, also being inside your Mother.

I went to the land where great Grandmom’s house once stood and the sun broke through the rain to smile at me as my feet touched the soil that remembered it all, memories locked up in bloodlines and earth and ether. And genes. And us.

Fight and faith. Love and sacrifice. Joy and laughter and dancing the counterbalance to such hard work of a life fully lived. I think I took for granted the scale and weight of the life you made for yourself and our family all these years. From Gees Bend, sharecroppers. To Cincy, nursing. To carrying yourself through your own retirement, showing up for grandkids, never forgetting yourself.

“Tired, tired, tired” you used to say. And then you would walk five miles. Lol. Go to water aerobics. Always fine, always coy. Always loving.

Anyway, my Mae Kate. My Granny. Miss Mary. I’ll be talking to ya. Thank you for these spiritual gifts you left. These legsss, hunny. lol. This resilience, and love, and laughter, and faith all bound up in my bones, in my genes, in my unconscious knowing of you from “wayyy back in the day, as the ole folks would say” as you would say. “You just keep on keeping on” you would say to me.

Something else when all the elders are in the ether. It’s something else.

I’ll be talking to ya.

(Thank You — to the friends who checked in with love and laughter in the days of her transition, and even now. to my family, both the Martins and the Colemans who held us and me together in a knowing care, a spiritual embrace. to the one who hasn’t let me feel alone on any day of this, who asks the strong one how she’s doing when she’s too strong to mourn herself. To the family in Mobile) by @jasminemrtn

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13 days ago

Black Art is Back in New York! ✨🖤🤎✨

Fall is here and it’s time to get inspired again, friends. In the belabored days post Labor Day, New York teems with every bevy of cultural activity — fashion week, US Open, and usually, Armory Week plus its slew of gallery openings meant to capture the attention of the descending collectors. But in a merciful switch, @thearmoryshow shifted to the end of the month.

Galleries did not get the memo.
It’s fine. Everything’s fine.
🔥🫠🥴😬😅🔥

Now, instead of one, we have three weeks of beautiful chaos unfolding ahead, with each set of seven days presenting a new array of art world openings capped by the final week of September and fiftyleven (see: two) major art fairs that lead us right into the onslaught of Q4 and no sleep till Miami.

Gird your loins. Gameface on.

💌Share this list with your bestie, lover, roster, group chat, clients, colleagues you actually like, and any friends with whom you’d love to frolick.

📩 Save it because no other “things to see” list is ever exclusively Black art

📢 and then let me me know what and who I’ve missed. #linkinbio for the continuously updated and full list. taken in New York City by @jasminemrtn

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there are years that ask questions and years that answer. — ms. Zora Neale Hurston
the summer that answered.
psalm 23.

(stories saw it first but quite a few of yall are blocked on there. so for your viewing pleasure…) taken in New York City by @jasminemrtn

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3 months ago

As the dust settles on the @nfldraft and a historic @nba finals awaits, I’ve watched the art & sports conversation in the art world never touch on the most important common denominator between the two — one that indicates why professional players are primed to be the next class of elite art patrons/collectors.

It’s a player’s eyes.
Advanced + heightened perceptive skills meet spatial awareness.

All professional athletes are trained to take in insane amounts of visual information and make instinctual decisions. Hours of study of film, plays, research, data, all run in the background of constant analytical perception on the playing field before the body even makes its move.

That said, #NFL players are primed to dominate art, in my opinion, given the complexity of their playing field (NBA players also have exceptional perception AND are already a prominent force in the Art World).

So what happens when this intelligent vision turns towards paintings and is rooted in research, market awareness and analysis, and historical understanding?

A new generation of Collectors participating in the Art World/Art Industry as astute, visionary Cultural Stewards emerges.

(Note: Art World here refers to art that is also a tangible financial asset given its participation in the Art Market)

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🦅Philadelphians, enjoy the @jalenhurts and AJ
Brown #Eagles footage against the Giants, plus @saquon for the plot (I am a Philadelphian 👏🏽 New 👏🏽Yorker 👏🏽 with Philly loyalty. #birdgang )

📲Tag your favorite players/teams in the comments, we need more art supporters

🏀 Should I break down the NBA & Black art world history next?

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🤍 Shout out to the OGs, @coachwalker_Ir and @elliotperry34 @perryartcollection who are and have been leaders in the Art/Sport space.

🙏🏽 Clients (NDAs) and friends who helped inform this perspective, and @angelica.mrtn and
@rahsaan_gethers who helped me put it into words taken in New York, New York by @jasminemrtn

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4 months ago

Call my phone and say you need me, baby.
[The Answer] taken in Miami, Florida by @jasminemrtn

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4 months ago

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7 months ago

successfully shenaniganed @thearmoryshow (& a @philadelphiaeagles win).

missed @joshuawoods at the Met and he said we got the Met at home 📸😮‍💨🔥. truly didn’t see all, so whose pulling up to the fair with me this weekend? (@clarajeon said Saturday — shall we mob? 👀).

only lightly touched the galleries. so much more to do but taking my time through it all.

back home in New York for a smooth lil bit. catch me outside. taken in New York City by @jasminemrtn

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a year ago

Lauren Halsey @summaeverythang Sister Dreamer park in LA is the most important public art you’ll see this year — and even more important than the Venice Biennale.

This is what the new world can look like.
Should look like.

The opening of Sister Dreamer in LA at this time of our lives, and of the collapse of so many known systems around us, offers not only a vision of care but a grounded, effective, and well developed articulation of it.

All contained within a spiritual elevation of Blackness.

(And plot twist: I wasn’t even there for the opening…but I already know).

Full reading and breakdown of Lauren’s work and why the nomenclature of Ancient Egypt is so vitally important, at the #linkinbio

Thoughts? Am I tripping?
(Honestly only asking Black people, people of color, and allies…I’ll block comments, pls be advised) taken in Los Angeles, California by @jasminemrtn

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7 months ago

Sometimes art and music come together to form the perfect storm.

Aka, an Art World Fairy Tale: a culturally influential collector flush with cash falls for the pivotal deceased artist being revitalized through a series of exhibitions and sales planned to celebrate his 50th Birthday, making the artist re-famous and generating money — all while a new public learns an old name for the first time also through said influential collector who actually, in retrospect, is the lynchpin of the entire, albeit exceptionally orchestrated on the market side, strategy.

Enter Jay-Z and Basquiat.

While I respect, deeply, the work of curators who were a part of Basquiat’s return (looking at you, @franklinsirmans) I don’t know if Jean-Michel would have become a 21st Century household name without Jay-Z.

It’s something I’ve been watching since 2012 and really built my career thesis on — that music’s cultural icons are created at the intersection of art, fashion, and film; and that, for the formula to work, it has to work from every angle.

Art cultural icon ➡️ music fashion film
Fashion cultural icon ➡️ art music film
Film cultural icon ➡️ art music fashion

(Note: film can mean cinematography; art in film can be cinematic)

So in the wake of the conversation of Mr. Carter cutting his locs, and taking over Brooklyn — felt like a good time to put a bow on this research.

#linkinbio and argue with yourselves in the comments — am I tripping? taken in New York City by @jasminemrtn

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3 months ago

I work to make the rules of art — and access to art — transparent.

Not simply because the Art World is the last unregulated financial market that allows for massive wealth transfers of liquid to tangible assets. But because global majority artists — Black, African, Latinx, Indian, Middle Eastern, Asian, — need collectors that look like them for their careers to be sustained.

Black artists especially. And the community deserves for the relationship to be symbiotic and mutually beneficial.

My grandfather was an artist — but to his frustration, not one who had the same critical acclaim as his peers. As his granddaughter who spent hours with him in his basement studio on afternoons swirling with jazz, that never mattered to me. He was supreme. Art was home.

But a trip to Rome in 2011 showed me, despite my intimacy with it, how frustratingly little I knew about art — being unable to enter a painting the same way I could enter a text, as a writer. I didn’t know how to begin to analyze a piece of art. Zero clue of the vocabulary needed to articulate what I was seeing, and feeling. No historical context to understand how the work ranked within and across the canon of art.

And why didn’t we know the names of Black visual artists the way we know the names of musicians? And what was the gallery system? These fairs? How was it all connected to the museums?

I wanted to learn the game. All of it.

Since then I’ve been on a journey of understanding. One that I’ve brought into work, as a Cultural Strategist at the intersection of music, fashion, art, and film. As an Art Advisor, helping build private collections. As a collector, investing in work that moves me and helping to move it.

As a Black woman who found her people in Black art.

I’ve been fortunate enough to encounter the most gracious and knowledgeable teachers — now peers — who were willing to share and teach and help me. This work is the way I pay their kindness and intention back, tenfold.

Thank you for being here. taken in Norton Museum of Art by @jasminemrtn

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