THE VIVACIOUS ARCHIVE

once known as phenomenon-intervention

[afrouif]

Alice Neel • cityscape 1952

[shihlun]

Mitsumasa Anno

[redlipstickresurrected]

Sally J. Han aka Jingmei Han aka Sally Han (South Korean-Chinese, b. 1993, Shenyang, China, based New York City, NY, USA) - Peeking, 2023, Paintings: Acrylic on Paper mounted on Wood Panel

[scoutingthetrooper]

katerina gorelik

[dadrockconfessions]

Sparks sound so European to me. I swear Russel Mael has a european accent when he's singing. So many of their songs have lyrics in French or whatever. One of their albums is just a Swedish radio musical. When I found out they weren't European I was SHOCKED. I didn't even refer to them as Sparks in my head, they were just 'that European band'. When I tell someone about Sparks, I lie and say they are European.

[vivaciousarchive]

To me, this song represents the opposite of the idea that "everything happens for a reason." The smallest, most insignificant action can set your life in a completely different direction. The most important events in one's life can occur this way, but it's not because it was "meant to be." All you can do is quietly acknowledge it and be happy in the moment, happy that it happened at all.

[musicvideoscreencaps]

[k-zit-the-oooze]

10,000 Maniacs

Early promotional photos with Natalie Merchant

[vivaciousarchive]

#10000 maniacs

[redlipstickresurrected]

Coma aka Sarcoma aka Doomed Sarcoma aka Takla Mebar (Czech, based Siberia, Russia) - I'm Dragging a Dead Deer up a Hill, 2025, Paintings: Digital Art

[vivaciousarchive]

Are Kim Thayil and Hiro Yamamoto the first Asian Americans to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame? Hilariously, I remember Kim mentioning that in the beginning, the band (himself, Hiro, and Chris Cornell on drums) were known around Seattle as "the Asian band."

[tinyicis]

Look. Look it's Satie with cat ears

[karnythia]

Hot Sauce in Her Bag

Southern Black identity, Beyoncé, Jim Crow, and the pleasure of well-seasoned food

My first for Eater & Patrick did the header image. Quality day all around. 

[vivaciousarchive]

I love this piece!

There may be white Beyoncé fans who also carry around their own personal bottles of hot sauce, but hearing her say she has hot sauce in her bag isn't a shout-out to them. She's talking to the Southern and Great Migration Black Americans listening — to them, to us, it hearkens to home. To childhoods spent at fish frys, church picnics, and visiting relatives. It's a reference to a cultural connection, one that spans the diaspora of Black American identity. You might prefer Crystal to Louisiana, you might only use it on greens that your Grandma didn't cook, you might rely on someone else having it, but you definitely used hot sauce. You definitely grew up seeing it used by the people that raised you, the people who gave you a sense of your roots, no matter where you were in America.

It goes deeper than that, though. Before, during and after the Great Migration, it wasn't uncommon for Black families to be splintered by distance, by danger, by the sad reality that it often wasn't safe to travel. Families moving from the South throughout America might not be able to take everything with them, but they could take their culinary traditions. They could have a taste of home on their plates even if they could never go back again.

[design-is-fine]

Tsuguharu Foujita, Poppies in a Yellow Jug, 1917. Japan. Gouache, watercolour. StephenOngpin

[psychotic-art]

Bruna Massadas, Linda Gets Caught Playing Solitaire, 2015, oil pastel on paper, 14 X 17 inches.

IG @brunamassadas

[nycartscene]

recently opened, through Feb 14:

“Human Instamatic”  Martin Wong

Bronx Museum, 1040 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NYC

The first museum retrospective of the work of Chinese-American painter Martin Wong (1946-1999) since his untimely death, offering the first in-depth assessment of Wong’s formal contributions as a painter. Co-curated by Sergio Bessa and Yasmin Ramirez, the exhibition features over 90 of Wong’s paintings with rarely-seen archival materials.

pictured: Starry Night, 1982 / My Secret World, 1978-1981, 1984 / Attorney Street (Handball Court with Autobiographical Poem by Piñero), 1982–84 / Sweet ‘Enuff, 1987 / Cupcake and Paco (Corot), 1988

[retrostarwarsstrikesback-blog]

Return of the Jedi at the cinema @retrostarwarsstrikesback

[vivaciousarchive]

I cannot recall ever seeing any of the Star Wars movies. Not one. I do remember Return of the Jedi coming out when I was in elementary school and the resultant fuss, but if I ever saw it in a theater (possible), it’s all but evaporated from my mind.

[bepeu-deactivated20171202]

Le Banquet, 1957 and 1958

by René Magritte