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Lilya Yuryevna Brik in a black dress, 1924. Photo printing from glass plate negatives

Kasimir Severinovich Malevich, Black Square, 1929

Malevich in his deathbed, surrounded by his works (1935)

“The contribution of Suprematism was to bring certain new plastic possibilities to art and then to end.” Mieczysław Szczuka, “The Funeral of Suprematism”

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Tony Russell Leonard Cohen, Isle of Wight Festival 1970

“It was a dismal evening in New York City… I had a cheeseburger; it didn’t help at all,… I went to the White Horse Tavern looking for Dylan Thomas, but Dylan Thomas was dead.”

It was enough to find Cohen in a dismal state when he crossed the famous lobby of The Chelsea Hotel. Bristling with talent and the electrifying buzz of fame, filled to the brim with rent-money paintings from its guests the Hotel’s lift was notoriously tricky. While Cohen did usual Fonzie impression on the troublesome controls, a wild-haired, fiercely confident woman entered the lift. The current resident of Room 411 – the singer for Big Brother and the Holding Company, and one of the voices of her generation – Janis Joplin.

Cohen gathered his courage and decided to use the slow pace of the lift to engage in some conversation with this shining light of womanhood. He remembered in 1988, “I said to her, ‘Are you looking for someone?’ She said ‘Yes, I’m looking for Kris Kristofferson.’ I said, ‘Little lady, you’re in luck, I am Kris Kristofferson.’ Those were generous times. Even though she knew that I was someone shorter than Kris Kristofferson, she never let on. Great generosity prevailed in those doom decades.”

Leonard Cohen, on his meeting Janis Joplin at the Chelsea Hotel in New York City, in 1968, in Jack Whatley, “The Story Behind The Song: Leonard Cohen’s ode to Janis Joplin, ‘Chelsea Hotel No. 2’” Far Out Magazine, 2019

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“My mom didn’t want to be pregnant. She was young. She wasn’t in a serious relationship. And she never even wanted kids, so needless to say, she wasn’t thrilled. I think Mr. Duck was her way of ‘being ok’ with the pregnancy. It was the first gift she ever bought me, and she gave it to me when I was born. I took Mr. Duck everywhere as a child: breakfast, lunch, dinner. I gave him baths. I told him all my stories and all my problems. He was my best friend. At one point we were staying at a hotel, because our living situation was up in the air. And when I came home from school, our room had been cleaned, and Mr. Duck was gone. I tore the room apart. The hotel staff searched everywhere. My mom even tried to go to the landfill, but the city wouldn’t let her. Mr. Duck was gone. Forever. The years went by. I stopped thinking about him. But my Mom remained heartbroken. She couldn’t even watch Toy Story. Then three years ago, I’m sitting in a café, and I get a call from her. She tells me: ‘I think I found Mr. Duck.’ Apparently for years my mom had been googling: ‘Terry Cloth Duck With Overalls.’ And she finally found a match. But there was only one way to know for sure. Mr. Duck had stitches in his head because of a hair dryer injury. That would be our proof. My mom ordered him from the website, and we agreed to meet at a restaurant to open the package. We delayed the moment for as long as possible. We tried to make small talk. I braced myself for disappointment. But finally we opened the package, and pulled him out, and I ran my fingers across his head. Stitches! After all these years, Mr. Duck had come home.” #quarantinestories

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nathalie emmanuel / by savanna ruedy, 2019.

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Hernan Bas (American, b. 1978), The Great and Powerful OZ’s AV Guy (Or, Behind the Other Curtain), 2019. Acrylic and charcoal on linen, 84 x 72 in.

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Easy Money - Johnny Marr

#GD why am I listening to this again #music and words

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“Look at me just the way I look at Natalie.” - James Dean to Sal Mineo during the shooting of Rebel Without a Cause

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#psb truly said fuck bono #music and words

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Miuccia Prada’s first ready-to-wear collection, FW 1988

#gd women are beautiful #clothes

in other news my life is filled with previously repressed regret and i'm trying to deal with this right now! also i'm on quarantine bc 2 people who came back from italy to my city got covid and didn't ask for any medical help for 2 weeks :-) also one of these people apparently lives in the same building my dad does :-)

i'll be 17 in less than 2 months! completely wild to think about