Sweet Creams

This is essentially an art blog. You can expect random art, photos, music and quotes.

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Yagazie + Akwaeke + Lee

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Been a fan of hers for a whole. Going through her art after years is such a treat.

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This beautiful man, Prince. #prince

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Courtney Love, 2005

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did she say this foreal

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Wildfire, 2015.

M: Carmel Uwase @ Flag Models

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Listen to Frank Ocean - At Your Best (Aaliyah Cover) | dreamwavescollective by the dream waves collective #np on #SoundCloud

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http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/powerful-photo-series-captures-the-ugly-reality-of-appropriating-black-women_us_56e066b6e4b0860f99d77afb?utm_hp_ref=black-voices&

She said her project, titled “Erosion,” is meant to show the sheer discomfort black women face when their features are fetishized. In the four photos, white hands pull and grab at Diltz as they try to manhandle her hips, butt, hair and more.

When shooting photos, Diltz and her photographer, Daniel Stewart, took everything into consideration, from Diltz’s facial expressions to the people whose arms appear in the photos, ensuring that they were white people who understood how destructive cultural appropriation is.  

 follow Imani Diltz on Twitter @thoughtsandkeys

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Nina Simone talking about blackness and black identity. Always inspires me.

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Whatever means necessary 🙌🏾

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“I think what you’re trying to ask is why am I so insistent upon [pause] giving out to them that Black-ness, that Black-power, that Black pushing them to identify with black culture; I think that’s what you’re asking. I have no choice over it; in the first place, to me we are the most beautiful creatures in the whole world, black people. And I mean that in every sense, outside and inside. And to me we have a culture that is surpassed by no other civilization but we don’t know anything about it. So again, I think I’ve said this before in this same interview, I think at some time before. My job is to some how make them curious enough or persuade them, by hook or crook, to get more aware of themselves and where they came from and what they are into and what is already there, and just to bring it out. This is what compels me to compel them and I will do it by whatever means necessary”

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Shades & Swagger # 1 Mlle Kante Sira’s got the Bamako swag.

Malick Sidibé , Portrait de Mlle Kante Sira, 1965.

Courtesy the artist, Andre Magnin and Tristan Hoare via The Guardian.

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African American family records from era of slavery to be available free online

A million and a half handwritten records compiled about newly freed slaves in the 1860s will be a treasure trove for those seeking to trace their ancestry

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Yulia Ustinova

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One is in diapers and the other is a busybody. Both knew better than to trample through the sugar on the floor to sit on top of, beneath the vulva of the exhibit like Pat did.

Let’s forget, for a moment, the subject matter of A Subtlety. And think about plain good home training. You don’t go to any place housing any works of art and touch. 

You quietly observe.

You show respect.

You keep your hands to yourself.

You do not touch. 

And now let’s think (for days and days since visiting the exhibit) specifically about the subject matter and all of its tentacles. And to that I say again, 

It’s not yours to touch and 

You show some respect. 

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"The Groots"

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Louise Bourgeois, Art is a Guarantyof Sanity, 2000, Pencil on pink paper, 27.9 x 21.5 cm. Collection Museum of Modern Art, New York, Photo: Christopher Burke.