They shoot the white girl first

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Engonopoulos Nicos (1907 - 1985)

Still Life, 1936

Tempera on wood panel, 26 x 34 cm

Collection of Eleni Engonopoulou. On extended loan to the National Gallery-A. Soutzos Museum

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Nyam-Osoryn Tsultem, Ensemble of Clouds ("Хурмастын чуулга"), 1977

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African-American Flag | Smithsonian Institution

A flag artwork by David Hammons, 1990

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i need to know their names those women i would have walked with jauntily the way men go in groups swinging their arms, and the ones those sweating women whom i would have joined after a hard game to chew the fat what would we have called each other laughing joking into our beer? where are my gangs, my teams, my mislaid sisters? all the women who could have known me, where in the world are their names?

the lost women, Lucille Clifton

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Stills from Trisha Brown's film "Laning Duets I" (1970), which is based on the idea of ​​two people dividing a balance. The partners stand with their feet touching and leaning an arm's length apart. They negotiate weight, trust, and gravity in real time, making these forces the theme of the dance.

Video courtesy of Trisha Brown Dance Company (@trishabrowncompany)

There's something to this: if it's so difficult to maintain physical balance in a relationship, what can be said about emotional balance?

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Peter Payack The Jam Mary wants to make some jam, so she buys 1000 mason jars: 700 quart size, 200 pint size, and “for variety” 100 half-pint. She likes making jam. Next she goes to the fruit stand and buys an orchard of peaches, but at 4 pounds to the dollar she feels “it’s a steal.” The fruit stand delivers the peaches in a truck; it dumps them into the kitchen. The kitchen is getting a little cramped with a ton of peaches and all those mason jars. We phone all the people we know to borrow canning pots. We rent a U-Haul 16 footer to pick them up. We get our sugar directly from Cuba. It costs a little more, and the diplomatic procedures are horrendous, but Mary feels “it’s sweeter.” For the next 72 hours we peel, dice, and boil peaches, sterilize the jars, and add gallons of pectin which we bought from a wholesaler “at a bargain.” After all the jars are filled, we realize we forgot to buy the lids. We call all over, and find that there are none to be had. As the jam begins to spoil, I grow desperate. But not Mary. She feels it was all worth it. She says, “I like making jam.” From issue no. 66 (Summer 1976)

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A tragedy transformed: 40 years after fencing accident, Ukraine war reunites impacted families

In 1982, German Matthias Behr killed Ukranian Vladimir Smirnov in a tragic fencing accident. Now, Behr and Smirnov's former wife are united

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The malleable, adaptable metropolis: toward a temporary and temporal urbanism | PCA–STREAM

PCA-STREAM is an architecture, interior design, and urban planning office, a research center, and an innovation center.

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Safely Maneuvering across Lin He Road 

1995, Guangzhou; performance,

90 min

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Ángela Leyva on The Exploration of Pictorial Portraiture, Identity and the Human Condition, Life, Art and More

Ángela Leyva (Mexico City, 1987) Lives and works in CDMX, she is a visual artist, who uses painting to create portraits that are sustained b

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The Loves of Others

You don’t have to be a couple to participate in the couple form. In fact there is nothing else to do

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Women are being abandoned by their partners on hiking trails. What’s behind ‘alpine divorce’?

As stories of men leaving their dates in ‘sketchy situations’ go viral, experts say these incidents could stem from big egos and poor commun

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