Source Notes.
Source Notes is a living archive of essays and field observations by Tayyib Smith exploring cities, memory, Black presence, and cultural stewardship. It treats art as civic infrastructure and asks who decides what is preserved, funded, or forgotten.
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Art, architecture, monuments and temples. I haven’t seen anything new that gives me hope, but the history of art does. (opens the original)
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