emma.k

Hi this isn't my main tumblr, my main one is "afewtimesinmylife". I only ever use this one by accident. So go look at it. :)

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hanging out with some art I hanged earlier this week (at Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show)

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fell in love with this painting from Toyin Ojih Odutola’s new show at the Whitney (at Whitney Museum of American Art)

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you know that feeling of when a musician sings so well it feels like they are singing to you and only you, and nothing else matters, even though you (both) know they aren't singing to you, but it still feels like they are? that was tonight, thank you Benjamin Clementine for it all // ✨🎶"Wishing Americana happy/ Wishing Americana free/ Ben's an alien passing by/ Wishing everyone be" 🎶✨- Lines from Jupiter from the album Let It Fly (2017) (at Carnegie Hall)

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Howardena Pindell talking yesterday about her incredible video work "Free, White and 21" (pictured) at the We Wanted a Revolution Exhibition Closing Celebration event // Pindell also mentioned that she would often send anonymous letters to people in the (white, male dominated) art world who pissed her off and she would sign them as "Black Hornet" ✊🏽 🐝 (at Brooklyn Museum)

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a wanderer above the sea // an homage to caspar david friedrich's "wanderer above the sea of fog" (at Acadia National Park)

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some panels from jacob lawrence's iconic migration series. the artist was born a hundred years ago today. (at The Phillips Collection)

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one bought yesterday, the other arrived today #elementsofstyle #aperturemagazine

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at Acadia National Park

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"Untitled" (ca. 1959-60) by Hughie Lee-Smith. "I think perhaps in expressing...a kind of loneliness of spirit, I'm expressing a thing that's based in the life experience of most Negroes in this country-a sense of rejection, a sense of being out there all by yourself." - Lee-Smith quoted in the museum wall text at NMAAHC (at Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture)

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also the Hélio Oiticica exhibition at the Whitney is A+, 10/10 would recommend (at Whitney Museum of American Art)

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hung out with an Amazon today; (also it is always hilarious to the art history nerd in me that the romans really couldn't figure out how the greeks got their sculptures to stand on their own, but they copied the greeks anyway and added things for the sculptures to lean against) (at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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some cool shadows at moma today (at MoMA The Museum of Modern Art)

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"St. James #3" by Rico Gaston (at The Studio Museum in Harlem)

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Stopped on the Studio Museum bookstore #platformafrica #onfeminism (at The Studio Museum in Harlem)

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at National Museum of Women in the Arts

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36 hours in Maine, hopefully back soon for longer (at Blue Hill, Maine)

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at Castine, Maine