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Editor’s Pick opens Feb 20:

“A New Republic” Kehinde Wiley

Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY

Wiley’s signature portraits of everyday men and women riff on specific paintings by Old Masters, replacing the European aristocrats depicted in those paintings with contemporary black subjects, drawing attention to the absence of African Americans from historical and cultural narratives. The exhibition includes an overview of the artist’s prolific fourteen-year career and features sixty paintings and sculptures. - thru May 24

magicalnaturetour

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"Champ de Couleur” Alek Wek photographed by Jean Baptiste Mondino for Vogue Paris 1997

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tastefullyoffensive

Cups of Cuteness

nevver

I believe in advertising

rickstevensart

Woods

pastel on paper | 18 x 11” | 1986 Rick Stevens Archive

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Vassar college girls practicing Greek dances 1923

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Witches.

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Anne Laval

So these two phots are about three years old now, but not too much has changed other than my glasses, hair length, and I probably won't have that bright healthy glow of pure happiness until I go back to Italy. I am posting these because I don't really have too many other photos of myself full fronal smiling because I have a tooth that is pretty damn stained and it always has been and always will be. Just someting I was bon with and I have learned to just be cool with it, after all it is apart of my face.

Well, today I had my teeth cleaned and the dentist without even asking me said, "Okay, so for the front left tooth I will send out a referral for a lumineer to your insurance company. Well, I told him I didn't need one, it was fine. He just shrugged and said okay. I don't know what to do! I have always been pretty solid in my decision to keep my teeth as they are because it is weird, pointess, and superficial to have perfect white chicklet teeth. Even when posed with the idea from the dentist. It really is a procudure that is purely for aesthetic purposes.

I am actually kind of conflicted, and I realize this is a first world problem, but I am going to be twenty-four years old this May and that means only two years left covered by my parents insurance and who knows what I will be eligable for when I have my own plan. I really need to make a decision by tomorrow, and I feel like I am being immature and stubborn by keeping my stained tooth and I feel like I am being superficial and untrue to myself if I get it done.

Well, trying to find a non-forced or strategically positioned photo of my natural grin in high definition was extremely difficult, which clearly says I don't want to show my teeth. I have also conditioned myself to speak with my mouth kind of closed and whenever I laugh or smile I put my hand over my mouth.

So what I really want to know is will I be making a mistake if I get this done?

#me #teeth #toothstain #lumineers?#willIbeasuperficialjerkoff??#helpplease

medievalpoc

Ancient Art Week!

Various Mummy Portraits

Roman Egypt (Fayum; Saqqara) , c. 0-200 C.E.

Encaustic on panel; various.

The Oldest Modernist Paintings (SmithsonianMag.com):

The images seem to allow us to gaze directly into the ancient world. “The Fayum portraits have an almost disturbing lifelike quality and intensity,” says Euphrosyne Doxiadis, an artist who lives in Athens and Paris and is the author of The Mysterious Fayum Portraits. “The illusion, when standing in front of them, is that of coming face to face with someone one has to answer to—someone real.”

lisafreds

I can't get enough of mummy portraits.