{"id":1701,"date":"2010-04-24T09:09:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T16:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/04\/miamis_purvis_young_67_rip\/"},"modified":"2010-04-24T09:09:52","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T16:09:52","slug":"miamis_purvis_young_67_rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/04\/miamis_purvis_young_67_rip.html","title":{"rendered":"Miami’s Purvis Young, 67, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Historically, when city fathers were moved to blight a neighborhood, they put a freeway through it. New York’s Robert Moses<\/a> was master of the practice. Today, the same purpose is served with a monolithic, dead-to-the-street convention center<\/a>. <\/p>\n

 From Purvis Young’s obituary<\/a> in the New York Times:<\/p>\n

He lived most of his life in the Overtown section of Miami, a
\nonce-thriving community that was ravaged by the construction of an
\ninterstate highway through it in the 1960s, and he painted what he saw
\naround him. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Artists are the bloom that blight cannot kill.<\/p>\n

Image via<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"Purvisyoungjp.jpg\"Images via<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Historically, when city fathers were moved to blight a neighborhood, they put a freeway through it. New York’s Robert Moses was master of the practice. Today, the same purpose is served with a monolithic, dead-to-the-street convention center.  From Purvis Young’s obituary in the New York Times: He lived most of his life in the Overtown […]<\/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-1701","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\/1701","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=1701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}