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Now open, Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power presents the complex work of Black artists who—at a time of dizzying political, social, and aesthetic revolution—produced some of the most innovative and electric art of the 20th century. See it now through Feb 3. And, don’t forgot to grab your tickets for tomorrow’s horn-infused dance party with Soul in the Horn! Dance to hits from the 1960-80’s, enjoy a special after hours viewing of Soul of a Nation, and have your portrait taken by Paper Monday. 

Barkley L. Hendricks, (American, 1945–2017). Blood (Donald Formey), 1975. Oil and acrylic on canvas. Courtesy of Dr. Kenneth Montague | The Wedge Collection, Toronto. © Estate of Barkley L. Hendricks. Courtesy of the artist’s estate and @jackshainman, New York. 

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fuck this shit imma just sit here

[lmaonade]

i am a vegetable medley and god is sautéing me on medium high heat 

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Pleats Please Issey Miyake ad, 1998

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Happy Labor Day! Since 1894, the first Monday in September has marked celebrations to honor the past, present, and future of the labor movement in the United States. In honor of labor around the world, we’re sharing a work from Half the Picture by Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide. One of Mexico’s best-known photographers, Iturbide’s breakthrough series focused on the indigenous Zapotec people in the town of Juchitán de Zaragoza, Oaxaca, where women dominate all aspects of social life, from the economy to religious rituals. Vendedora de Zacate (Sponge Vendor), Oaxaca pictures a woman who carries her wares on a string wrapped around her head. Approaching her subjects directly and frontally, Iturbide characterized her photographic approach as a kind of “complicity.”  

Graciela Iturbide (Mexican, born 1942). Vendedora de Zacate (Sponge Vendor), Oaxaca, 1974. Gelatin silver photograph. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Marcuse Pfeifer, 1990.119.39. © artist or artist’s estate 

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[veinitas]

im sick and tired of men complaining about women being afraid of them like i DO NOT CARE if it hurts your feelings when a girl crosses the street to get further away from you!!! we hear how men talk about us! we see how men treat us! well stop being scared of men when they stop being so fucking scary!

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Statue of queen Zenobia in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, Lattakia, Syria

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photographs of judith jameson performing in alvin ailey’s cry, 1970s

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Jamilla Okubo

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Sun Ra (1914–1993)

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Rinko Kawauchi, Ametsuchi series (2012-2013)

What inspired me was a dream I had one day. It was of scenery so amazingly beautiful that it made me almost scared. I woke up thinking how beautiful it was. I wasn’t sure if that location really existed, but if it did, I wanted to visit it. About six months later, I saw what I saw in my dream on TV. The location did exist. I found out that was I saw was called noyaki. It is the practice of protecting a grassland by burning a field. It has been done for about thirteen hundred years. Without noyaki, a field would turn into woods. Beautiful grassland cannot be maintained without burning the field once a year. What amazes me is that it doesn’t happen naturally but is maintained by human intervention. I am very much interested in the flow and cycle of human practices. It is not only the theme for Ametsuchi but also a foundation of all my work.

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COMME des GARÇONS

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