Robert Levy's Blog, page 8
July 7, 2018
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June 30, 2018
brooklynmuseum:
Going against the longstanding need to conceal...
Going against the longstanding need to conceal queer identities, these artists use portraiture to affirm the complexity of queer desire and experience in the 20th and 21st centuries.
In his lavish portraits, Kehinde Wiley places black and brown men in the context of historical Western portraiture, playing off themes of wealth, power, and status. Miss Susanna Gale is a photograph based on the 1763 painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, which shows us a 14-year-old Jamaican sugar plantation heiress. Like the original Miss Gale, Wiley’s subject gently holds a pink rose. He stands against an even more intensely floral background, borrowed from interior design magazines of the 1950s. Part of the series “Black Light,” the work uses its unique combination of references to question privilege, gender, and constructs of masculinity, bringing the present into conversation with the past.
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Kehinde Wiley (American, born 1977). “Miss Susanna Gale,” 2009. Photograph. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Dr. Abram Kanof and Mrs. Edwin De. T. Bechtel, by exchange, 2009.55. © artist or artist’s estate (Photo: image courtesy of Deitch Projects)
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“He led him forward...
“He led him forward till they arrived at the borders of an ocean”
attractive engraved illustration published in 1825 from ‘The Citizen of the World’ by Oliver Goldsmith
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alexwrekk:
Brainscan #33 DIY Witchery
An Exploration of...
Brainscan #33 DIY Witchery
An Exploration of Secular Witchcraft
This zine is a not a how-to-witch zine.
This zine is an issue of Brainscan that just happens to be about
witchcraft told through my personal narrative.
In this zine I
explore what witchcraft is, how I became interested in it, how I built
my own practice as an agnostic secular witch and how that differs from a
lot of contemporary witchcraft. I share a glimpse of what my personal
practice as a non-pagan and non-Wiccan witch looks like.
I also
examine my personal issues with modern pagan and witchcraft culture
addressing things like racism, cultural appropriation, colonialism,
capitalism, the excessive gendering of all things. My politics are
intersectional and so is my witchcraft.
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I’ve also got some fun buttons that witches might enjoy.
June 19, 2018
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tailormoblee:
This Day in History: Juneteenth is the...
This Day in History: Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United Sates. Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19th that the Union soldiers landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free two and a half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.
Happy Juneteenth, Tumblr
June 7, 2018
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The Little Mermaid...
The Little Mermaid - Hans Andersen
Illustration by Helen Stratton 1899
[Private Collection]
