ramblings

in DC, at GW Law

[walkoutofhermind]

A painter who said the subway was his art school

New York artists have always found inspiration in the subway. But few were so taken by their fellow passengers that they whipped out a piece of newsprint and sketched faces in the middle of a ride.…

JOSEPH SOLMAN

[walkoutofhermind]

Amedeo Modigliani

I believe those who describe him didn’t know him as I did, and here’s why. First, I could know only one side of his being—the radiant side. After all I was just a stranger, probably a not easily understood twenty-year-old woman, a foreigner. Secondly, I myself noticed a big change in him when we met …

Anna Akhmatova on Amedeo Modigliani

[areasonablydressedwoman]

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[durgapolashi]

[durgapolashi]

Alice Neel

Ginny, 1984

[areasonablydressedwoman]

4317 by areasonablydressedwoman featuring leather sandals

[karina-padilla]

[urdulanguageclub]

Urdu alphabet

[areasonablydressedwoman]

[metaphorformetaphor]

Today loneliness like a well-tried friend Has come to be my evening wine-pourer. We sit together waiting for the moon to rise And set your image gleaming in every shadow.

Faiz Ahmad Faiz, from “Loneliness,” Poems by Faiz (Oxford University Press, 2002)

[vintageindianclothing]

Gayatri Devi, probably 1940s/50s. And probably from this ensemble pic.

[angelofresurrection]

[two-browngirls]

There’s no real awareness of the atrocities, of the fact that Britain financed its Industrial Revolution and its prosperity from the depredations of empire, the fact that Britain came to one of the richest countries in the world in the 18th century and reduced it, after two centuries of plunder, to one of the poorest.

- Dr Shashi Tharoor (via two-browngirls)

[simplicitylovebeauty-blog]

Flawless Meena Kumari stills from Pakeezah 1972.

[tariqah]

I just visited her grave

[homesteadseattle]

time to get the attic on airbnb