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This Artist’s Photo Series Challenges The Perception Of Sex Workers In Art

Awol Erizku’s latest project adds people of color to works like Édouard Manet’s Olympia and Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s La Grande Odalisque.

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“Vintage Self-Portrait” 1999, by Samuel Fosso

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it’s basically like .. **western museums deserve to acquire and present objects from distant places because they would otherwise be destroyed or left unappreciated ** yet when these works are actually displayed they’re given a marginal status or framed as inferior to works from the western canon so that whole idea of fostering a greater appreciation for the world’s different cultures is also doo doo mr cuno!!!

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africanstories

The intriguing art of Kente weaving. Video and Words by Nana Kofi Acquah (www.nkaphoto.com) @africashowboy (Copyright: 2016)

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A year from now you will wish you had started today.

Karen Lamb (via wordsnquotes)

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George Giusti, cover for Graphis, 1959. Via sandi vincent / flickr

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When walls are this pretty, you would take a photo too. Masdar Institute in Abu Dhabi.

(at Masdar Institute of Science and Technology)

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Mammy Water is a pidgin English name for a local water goddess worshipped by the Ibibio, Ijaw, and Igbo speaking peoples of southeastern Nigeria. The water goddess traditionally gives wealth and children, compensates for hardships, and is sought in times of illness and need, especially by women. Her various cults are led, predominantly, by priestesses. This acclaimed documentary shows numerous rituals and ceremonies associated with Mammy Water, while devotees provide commentary. This is an important depiction of the strength of traditional religion in contemporary Nigeria and one of the few academically sound investigations of the role of women in an African spiritual movement.

http://www.der.org/films/mammy-water.html

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Hombría Muerta

Acrylic and mixed media on panel

Sergio Bonilla

2016

me: *gets anxious and doesn't confirm appointments, not always shows up to meetings, ghosts at every social media when is needed, is unreachable in the phone even if it's literally in my hand*

also me: i wonder why i don't have a successful career like other people my age.