{"id":67463,"date":"2026-02-23T21:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=67463"},"modified":"2026-02-23T21:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:53:11","slug":"last-chance-anthony-akinbola-get-well-soon","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/last-chance-anthony-akinbola-get-well-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"<mark>CLOSING TODAY<\/mark> Anthony Akinbola: Get Well Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Durags are stretchable fabrics worn over the head to shape and protect the hair; in Akinbola\u2019s practice, they are both culturally loaded objects and a material he can reconfigure. For this solo show, Akinbola assembles durags into compositions that are drawn from the structure of classical floral still-life paintings. Translating this genre into fabric allows the image to form through construction; petals emerge through stitching, density, and layering. The flower is not painted; it is built.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside the floral arrangements, Akinbola works through another motif: bricks. Says the gallery: &#8220;The brick pattern &#8230; introduces a different register: a wall, a structure, a longing. It gestures toward the search for something that lasts, and toward the idea of home as legacy &#8230; The title Get Well Soon operates as both a cue and a condition, an everyday phrase that carries hope and uncertainty at once&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Durags are stretchable fabrics worn over the head to shape and protect the hair; in Akinbola\u2019s practice, they are both culturally loaded objects and a material he can reconfigure. For this solo show, Akinbola assembles durags into compositions that are <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/last-chance-anthony-akinbola-get-well-soon\/\" title=\"CLOSING TODAY Anthony Akinbola: Get Well Soon\"> [&#8230; more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[50,96],"class_list":["post-67463","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","tribe_events_cat-art","tribe_events_cat-exhibition","cat_art","cat_exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/67463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/67463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67463"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=67463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}