{"id":1147,"date":"2009-10-06T14:10:49","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T21:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/10\/oscar_arredondo_a_mile_in_my_m\/"},"modified":"2009-10-06T14:10:49","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T21:10:49","slug":"oscar_arredondo_a_mile_in_my_m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/10\/oscar_arredondo_a_mile_in_my_m.html","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Arredondo: A Mile in My Moccasins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plenty agree with Boston Globe art critic Sebastian Smee, who finds&nbsp; &#8220;familiar forms of patronizing &#8216;identity art&#8221; &#8211; art that addresses, in the most dutiful, box-ticking ways, the familiar tropes of exclusion and wrongdoing&#8230; wearingly predictable.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/ae\/theater_arts\/articles\/2009\/06\/28\/8216the_old_weird_america8217_exhibit_tweaks_us_history\/\">more<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>In the United States of denial, I don&#8217;t know how predictable any justice is, which is why I&#8217;m fond of Oscar Arredondo&#8217;s <i>A Mile in My Moccasins<\/i> from 2001. Subtlety is not his strong suit. (Insert eye roll from Smee here.) Arredondo holds his subject matter in his heavy hands like a bear preparing to smash a food chest. And why not? I love Jane Austen but wouldn&#8217;t want to live in her novels.<\/p>\n<p>Arredondo wonders why one baseball logo is acceptable, at least in <a href=\"http:\/\/cleveland.indians.mlb.com\/index.jsp?c_id=cle\">Cleveland<\/a>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><i>Welcome to Cleveland, Home of the &#8230;.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"oscararredondoindins.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/oscararredondoindins.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"371\" width=\"242\" \/>And others like it wouldn&#8217;t be.<\/p>\n<p><i>Welcome to Cleveland, Home of the&#8230;.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"oscararredondojws.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/oscararredondojws.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"371\" width=\"247\" \/>More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.franklinartworks.org\/exhibitions\/arredondo.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plenty agree with Boston Globe art critic Sebastian Smee, who finds&nbsp; &#8220;familiar forms of patronizing &#8216;identity art&#8221; &#8211; art that addresses, in the most dutiful, box-ticking ways, the familiar tropes of exclusion and wrongdoing&#8230; wearingly predictable.&#8221; (more) In the United States of denial, I don&#8217;t know how predictable any justice is, which is why I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}