{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"4557"},"copyright":{"label":"Copyright","value":"Copyright for this work is under review."},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Gift of the Thornton Dial Family"},"endDate":{"label":"End Date","value":"2012"},"sortNumber":{"label":"Sort Number","value":"2013     6    1"},"invno":{"label":"Accession number","value":"2013.6.1"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Wood, carpet scraps, corrugated tin, burlap, nails, and enamel on wood"},"geographyPlaceregion":{"label":"Place/Region","value":"Bessemer"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":{"mediaURL":"https://collection.folkartmuseum.org/internal/media/dispatcher/4701/full","mediaDepartment":"Object Photographs","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"4701"}},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Birds Got to Have Somewhere to Roost"},"geographyCity":{"value":"Bessemer"},"textEntriesWebsitedisplaytext":{"value":"The highly poetic and evocative titles of Thornton Dial\u2019s artworks\u2014Bone Dry (2011), Freedom Cloth (2005), History Refused to Die (2004), The Art of Alabama (2004), Equal Opportunity: Mosquitoes Don\u2019t Discriminate (2002), Cotton-Field Sky Still over Our Head (2001)\u2014relate to the embedded brutality endured by African Americans during their quest for justice through historical phenomena such as the civil rights movement, as well as the victory of their oral culture. These inflammatory topics take a more philosophical note and slightly dissolve in Birds Got to Have Somewhere to Roost. One can suggest that this relief painting depicts a fragment of a pervasive Southern phenomenon called the \u201cyard show,\u201d a West African custom that survived four hundred years of New World oppression, as art historian Robert Farris Thompson has formulated. These ever-changing installations are symbols of tenacity, survival, and rebirth among abandoned things. This painted construction by Dial may specifically sustain the idea that everybody has to have a home and reference the comfort the home implies. A prototypical piece of his latest works, it refers to agriculture, rural communities, and relationships between people, animals, and nature. The distribution of gold, silver, and pink tones, the interplay of textures, and the growing movement of the weed makes this piece ethereal and weightless.Valérie Rousseau, \u201cBirds Got to Have Somewhere to Roost,\u201d exhibition label for Self-Taught Genius: Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum. Stacy C. Hollander and Valérie Rousseau, curators. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2014. Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.　To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.org"},"collections":{"label":"Collections","value":["Three Dimensional Works","Paintings"]},"geography":{"label":"Geography","value":"Bessemer"},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"155124"},"geographyState":{"value":"Alabama"},"geographyCountry":{"value":"United States"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"people":{"label":"Artist / Maker","value":{"displayOrder":"1","personRole":"Artist","personID":"1136","content":"Thornton Dial Sr."}},"classifications":{"label":"Classification(s)","value":"Paintings"},"textEntries":{"label":"Text Entries","value":"The highly poetic and evocative titles of Thornton Dial\u2019s artworks\u2014Bone Dry (2011), Freedom Cloth (2005), History Refused to Die (2004), The Art of Alabama (2004), Equal Opportunity: Mosquitoes Don\u2019t Discriminate (2002), Cotton-Field Sky Still over Our Head (2001)\u2014relate to the embedded brutality endured by African Americans during their quest for justice through historical phenomena such as the civil rights movement, as well as the victory of their oral culture. These inflammatory topics take a more philosophical note and slightly dissolve in Birds Got to Have Somewhere to Roost. One can suggest that this relief painting depicts a fragment of a pervasive Southern phenomenon called the \u201cyard show,\u201d a West African custom that survived four hundred years of New World oppression, as art historian Robert Farris Thompson has formulated. These ever-changing installations are symbols of tenacity, survival, and rebirth among abandoned things. This painted construction by Dial may specifically sustain the idea that everybody has to have a home and reference the comfort the home implies. A prototypical piece of his latest works, it refers to agriculture, rural communities, and relationships between people, animals, and nature. The distribution of gold, silver, and pink tones, the interplay of textures, and the growing movement of the weed makes this piece ethereal and weightless.Valérie Rousseau, \u201cBirds Got to Have Somewhere to Roost,\u201d exhibition label for Self-Taught Genius: Treasures from the American Folk Art Museum. Stacy C. Hollander and Valérie Rousseau, curators. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2014. Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.　To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.org"},"beginDate":{"label":"Begin Date","value":"2012"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"2012"},"exhibitions":{"label":"Exhibitions","value":[{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Friday, April 12, 2024 - Sunday, May 25, 2025","exhibitionEndISODate":"2025-05-25","exhibitionID":"257","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2024-04-12","exhibitionBeginDate":"2024","exhibitionTitle":"Somewhere to Roost","exhibitionEndDate":"2025"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Wednesday, September 27, 2017 - Thursday, February 8, 2018","exhibitionEndISODate":"2018-02-08","exhibitionID":"214","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2017-09-27","exhibitionBeginDate":"2017","exhibitionTitle":"Highlights from Self-Taught Genius","exhibitionEndDate":"2018"},{"exhibitionDisplayDate":"Tuesday, May 13, 2014 - Sunday, August 17, 2014","exhibitionEndISODate":"2014-08-17","exhibitionID":"171","exhibitionISOBeginDate":"2014-05-13","exhibitionBeginDate":"2014","exhibitionTitle":"Self-Taught Genius","exhibitionEndDate":"2014"}]},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"61 1/4 x 48 x 10 \" (155.6 x 121.9 x 25.4 cm)"}}]}