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personal blog of ebtookaphoto

[aboxofsky]

VHS night :~)

[overdose-art]

A SILK HERALDIC RUG, POSSIBLY KASHAN, CENTRAL PERSIA, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

[caribbeanangel]

Susan Meiselas.

[lilium--bosniacum]

children’s dreams / al-yarmouk, palestinian refugee camp in damascus, syria 

little palestine; diary of a siege (2021) dir. abdallah al khatib 

[aboxofsky]

[achillesinhighheels]

[academic-vampire]

[misscromwellsmonocle]

The Lazy Italian Girl (1757) by Jean Baptiste Greuze

[quendergeer]

god, you take a five minute break and some asshole paints a picture

[trans-lykanthropie]

I bet Jean Baptiste wasn't helping with the washing up or doing the laundry

[teaboot]

Teen girls feeling the same for 269 years

[indomie-fried-noodle]

[miamaimania]

Beijing ~ China (1993) by Gueorgui Pinkhassov — Street scene with daily life activities and reflections

[hungwy]

comfy bed. take me home. to the place. where i belong. pillow blanky. sleeping soundly. take me home. comfy bed

[neueclear-deactivated20260325]

“Out of Body” Artwork by Wani Souma

[mybeingthere]

Mantle, Peruvian, Paracas-Nasca, South CoastEarly, Intermediate Period, Phase 1AD 1-100, Peru, South Coast.

Design: rows of shaman figures with heads thrown back, worked solidly with wool.

Camelid fiber plain weave embroidered with camelid fiber in stem-stitch, 142 x 241 cm (55 7/8 x 94 7/8 in.)

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/36603

[batbetbitbotbut]

This textile is TWO THOUSAND YEARS OLD.

It looks like it could have been made last year. It is SO bright and whole. I am staggered.

[newloverofbeauty]

Louis Fratino: Yellow sleeper. (2019)

[richardstabbert]

Keith Haring's story is usually told as a solo rise, but that version leaves out Angel "LA II" Ortiz, a Puerto Rican artist from the Lower East Side who collaborated with Haring from the very beginning. Angel was a teenager when they met, already active in the neighborhood's graffiti culture. He taught Keith how tagging worked on the street, painted alongside him, and guided him through spaces Keith did not come from. Angel's tags, infill, and visual language appear across works that later became associated with Keith Haring's public legacy.

After Keith Haring's death, the story changed. Museums mounted exhibitions, publishers released books, and merchandise entered the market under a single name.

In that process, Angel Ortiz was framed as hired labor instead of a collaborator, even though his work remains visible on paintings, sculptures, and objects shown in major institutions today. Angel has said openly that race played a role in his erasure, and photographer Clayton Patterson has explained how institutions chose a simpler version of the story that centered one white artist and removed a Puerto Rican collaborator. Angel Ortiz is still working as an artist today, and the time has come for the art world to give him clear credit for the work he helped create…yuliaxgon

[theinternetarchive]

residents of the los angeles gay community service center's "lesbian house" photographed by bee ottinger for her thesis, c. 1972-73.

[nobrashfestivity]

Duane Michals,Things are Queer, 1973

[nobrashfestivity]

RIP