the white lighter

Erik Olson, 2013, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:00:13 -0400

Erik Olson, 2013, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches

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Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:00:20 -0400

darksilenceinsuburbia: Anne Siems. Plant Collector,...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 06:00:11 -0400

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Anne Siems. Plant Collector, 2013.

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Via Art From Suburbia

Oldie but goodie. 2009.

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 22:48:48 -0400

Oldie but goodie. 2009.

"and yes I said yes I will Yes."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 22:00:22 -0400

“and yes I said yes I will Yes.”

- James Joyce, Ulysses

(Happy Bloomsday)

Black Contemporary Art Julien Sinzogan was born in 1957 in...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:00:09 -0400

Black Contemporary Art

Julien Sinzogan was born in 1957 in Porto-Novo, Republic of Benin. He studied architecture in Paris at the École Spéciale des Travaux Public, and lives and works in France.

Sinzogan’s work expresses the way of life informed and inspired by the Yoruba divinatory and religious system known as Ifa. The Yoruba people of Nigeria and Benin in West Africa see life as taking a cyclical trajectory through which individuals experience the tangible world (aye), depart to the spirit world (orun) and are reborn. Sinzogan’s works explore the journeys between these different but closely related worlds. The voyages between such realms lie at the heart of religious practice across much of the Atlantic world, a world forever shaped by another voyage: the middle passage of the Atlantic slave trade.

Omar Ba is a Senegalese artist who holds a degree from l’Ecole Nationale des Beaux-arts de Dakar, and has been living in Geneva, Switzerland, since 2003, where he completed an MA at the Ecole Superieure des Beaux-Arts.

He has since has participated in four separate exhibitions at the Galerie Anne De Villepoix, as well as the Guy Bartschi gallery, and in 2011 won the prestigious Swiss Art Award.

Omar Ba’s paintings present a colorful, fantastic, at times chaotic world where the order of things as we perceive them in the visible world is turned on its head. Giant plants tower over a miniature human world gripped by globalization; huge mother and father figures become hybrid godlike creatures at once terrifying and seductive because of the sheer beauty of Omar Ba’s craftsmanship and decorative use of saturated color.

darksilenceinsuburbia: Eric Edward Esper. Green Hornet...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 12:00:15 -0400

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Eric Edward Esper. Green Hornet Streetcar Inferno, 2013 (from the series “Chicago Disasters). Oil on canvas, 27 x 27”.

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nevver: Meghan Howland

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 06:00:12 -0400

nevver:

Meghan Howland

jenelleisswell: obligatory #fishtown #vscocam

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 21:50:12 -0400

jenelleisswell:

obligatory #fishtown #vscocam

cavetocanvas: Glenn Ligon, Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Black...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 18:00:21 -0400

cavetocanvas:

Glenn Ligon, Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Black Features and Self-Portrait Exaggerating My White Features, 1998

hardnipplesforever: sheshootstoo: I never promised you a rose...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:00:17 -0400

hardnipplesforever:

sheshootstoo:

I never promised you a rose garden - Jon Mayhem

MUA Sarah Kemp

meanwhile, in happier news, i just got this from Tanya from a shoot a little while back. i shoot her, she shoots me, it works out well for both of us.

nadiaaboulhosn: Nadia Aboulhosn. I’m the one to watch.

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 06:00:11 -0400

nadiaaboulhosn:

Nadia Aboulhosn. I’m the one to watch.

dumpydeer: #basquiat resume. amazing. I should just give up...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:45:15 -0400

dumpydeer:

#basquiat resume. amazing. I should just give up now. (at Sotheby’s)

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Mon, 10 Jun 2013 11:42:28 -0400

Yesterday was prettier than today. #latergram

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 11:40:35 -0400

Yesterday was prettier than today. #latergram

Rooftop sitting. #latergram

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 11:39:08 -0400

Rooftop sitting. #latergram

"To all those who don’t think the rape joke was a problem, or rape jokes are a problem. I get it,..."

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 18:40:09 -0400

“

To all those who don’t think the rape joke was a problem, or rape jokes are a problem.

I get it, you’re a decent guy. I can even believe it. You’ve never raped anybody. You would NEVER rape anybody. You’re upset that all these feminists are trying to accuse you of doing something or connect you to doing something that, as far as you’re concerned, you’ve never done and would never condone.

And they’ve told you about triggers, and PTSD, and how one in six women is a survivor, and you get it. You do. But you can’t let every time someone gets all upset get in the way of you having a good time, right?

So fine. If all those arguments aren’t going anything for you, let me tell you this. And I tell you this because I genuinely believe you mean it when you say you don’t want to hurt anybody, and you don’t see the harm, and that it’s important to you to do your best to be a decent and good person. And I genuinely believe you when you say you would never associate with a rapist and you think rape really is a very bad thing.

Because this is why I refuse to take rape jokes sitting down-

6% of college age men, slightly over 1 in 20, will admit to raping someone in anonymous surveys, as long as the word “rape” isn’t used in the description of the act.

6% of Penny Arcade’s target demographic will admit to actually being rapists when asked.

A lot of people accuse feminists of thinking that all men are rapists. That’s not true. But do you know who think all men are rapists?

Rapists do.

They really do. In psychological study, the profiling, the studies, it comes out again and again.

Virtually all rapists genuinely believe that all men rape, and other men just keep it hushed up better. And more, these people who really are rapists are constantly reaffirmed in their belief about the rest of mankind being rapists like them by things like rape jokes, that dismiss and normalize the idea of rape.

If one in twenty guys is a real and true rapist, and you have any amount of social activity with other guys like yourself, really cool guy, then it is almost a statistical certainty that one time hanging out with friends and their friends, playing Halo with a bunch of guys online, in a WoW guild, or elsewhere, you were talking to a rapist. Not your fault. You can’t tell a rapist apart any better than anyone else can. It’s not like they announce themselves.

But, here’s the thing. It’s very likely that in some of these interactions with these guys, at some point or another someone told a rape joke. You, decent guy that you are, understood that they didn’t mean it, and it was just a joke. And so you laughed.

And, decent guy who would never condone rape, who would step in and stop rape if he saw it, who understands that rape is awful and wrong and bad, when you laughed?

That rapist who was in the group with you, that rapist thought that you were on his side. That rapist knew that you were a rapist like him. And he felt validated, and he felt he was among his comrades.

You. The rapist’s comrade.

And if that doesn’t make you feel sick to your stomach, if that doesn’t make you want to throw up, if that doesn’t disturb you or bother you or make you feel like maybe you should at least consider not participating in that kind of humor anymore…

Well, maybe you aren’t as opposed to rapists as you claim.

”

- Time-Machine (via a comment at shakesville.com)

Single greatest argument about this I have ever heard.

(via justintheallan)

histoire-de-lart: Paul Delvaux, ‘the awakening of the forest’,...

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 18:00:29 -0400

histoire-de-lart:

Paul Delvaux, ‘the awakening of the forest’, 1939,

oil on canvas

happy birthday, darling!

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 09:16:41 -0400

Thank you! 30 30 30. It’s a good number.

KEVIN GOT ME A JAVELINA FOR MY BIRTHDAY!

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 08:56:43 -0400

KEVIN GOT ME A JAVELINA FOR MY BIRTHDAY!