{"id":3994,"date":"2016-03-08T15:01:02","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T15:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/?p=3994"},"modified":"2016-03-08T15:01:02","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T15:01:02","slug":"airport-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/airport-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Airport art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/aaaMystrySolvd-932.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3995\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3995\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.masksoftheworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/aaaMystrySolvd-932-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"aaaMystrySolvd-932\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/aaaMystrySolvd-932-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/aaaMystrySolvd-932-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/aaaMystrySolvd-932-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/aaaMystrySolvd-932-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Q:\u00a0<\/strong> Can you help me solve my boyfriend&#8217;s question whether or not these are evil?\u00a0 Rebecca, 932<\/p>\n<p><strong>A:\u00a0<\/strong> This is not evil&#8211; just a waist of money. Decorative wall-hangings like this have been sold in airports all over Africa since the 1950&#8217;s. These carvings are meant for tourists and have little in common with traditional art. Thus the name &#8220;Airport art.&#8221; The Mask Man gets photos of this kind of stuff frequently and I always answer the sender&#8217;s questions, but never post them for others to see. I broke my rule today because I&#8217;d like to encourage interest in real African masks. Authentic folk art is much more satisfying than tourist junk.\u00a0<strong> D<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q:\u00a0 Can you help me solve my boyfriend&#8217;s question whether or not these are evil?\u00a0 Rebecca, 932 A:\u00a0 This is not evil&#8211; just a waist of money. Decorative wall-hangings like this have been sold in airports all over Africa since the 1950&#8217;s. These carvings are meant for tourists and have little in common with traditional art. Thus the name &#8220;Airport art.&#8221; The Mask Man gets photos of this kind of stuff frequently and I always answer the sender&#8217;s questions, but never post them for others to see. I broke my rule today because I&#8217;d like to encourage interest in real African masks. Authentic folk art is much more satisfying than tourist junk.\u00a0 D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3996,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994\/revisions\/3996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masksoftheworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}