Meditations on the Ridiculosity of Romanticism

lacma: Sometimes the book was a prop; sometimes it was a...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:10:26 -0400

Sometimes the book was a prop; sometimes it was a symbol; other times, it was actually being read. These 14 works of art from eight nations span six centuries, and books are found in all of them. The art seems to tell a story: that books have been essential to cultures worldwide and across all ages. Maybe the portraits of the future will pose us with our e-readers in hand.

14 classic works of art — with books! - latimes.com

arthistorygifs: The School of Athens - Raphael High-res /...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:04:43 -0400

arthistorygifs:

The School of Athens - Raphael

High-res / Frames

makemestfu: EVERYTHING RELATE

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:53:12 -0400

makemestfu:

EVERYTHING RELATE

cavetocanvas: caravaggista: My (non-definitive) guide to...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:51:09 -0400

cavetocanvas:

caravaggista:

My (non-definitive) guide to Applying to Graduate School in Art History is finished! You can download it for free in PDF format here. If you find it useful, please pass it along to your friends & also let me know!

This is an absolutely BRILLIANT guide. Amy did an incredible job designing and writing it, and if you’re even slightly considering applying to grad school, this is a must read. A. Must. Read.

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:47:08 -0400

gingerhaze: I did this piece for Random House’s Listening...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:36:12 -0400

gingerhaze:

I did this piece for Random House’s Listening Library audio edition of The Time Machine! I think there will be posters and buttons of this available at Comic-Con!

I should grab the free version for my e-reader. I’ve meant to read this for a while.

doctordonna10: al-bayyinah: ahhjibbliejibblie: WHAT IF other...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:00:11 -0400

doctordonna10:

al-bayyinah:

ahhjibbliejibblie:

WHAT IF other planetary bodies orbited our world at the same distance as the moon?

whoa Jupiter kinda in my personal bubble thanks

Jupiter would actually be terrifying.

Is that Earth orbiting Earth

Can I call in Mermaid tomorrow?

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 02:58:39 -0400

Can I call in Mermaid tomorrow?

"I want to emphasise the importance of approaching both our theoretical explorations and our movement..."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:28:12 -0400

“I want to emphasise the importance of approaching both our theoretical explorations and our movement activism in ways that enlarge and expand and complicate and deepen our theories and practices of freedom. Feminism involves so much more than gender equality and it involves so much more than gender. Feminism must involve consciousness of capitalism (I mean the feminism that I relate to, and there are multiple feminisms, right). So it has to involve a consciousness of capitalism and racism and colonialism and post-colonialities, and ability and more genders than we can even imagine and more sexualities than we ever thought we could name. Feminism has helped us not only to recognise a range of connections among discourses and institutions and identities and ideologies, that we often tend to consider separately. But it has also helped us to develop epistemological and organising strategies that take us beyond the categories ‘women’ and ‘gender’. And feminist methodologies impel us to explore connections that are not always apparent. And they drive us to inhabit contradictions and discover what is productive in these contradictions. Feminism insists on methods of thought and action that urge us to think things together that appear to be separate and to disaggregrate things that appear to naturally belong together.”

- Angela Davis, “Feminism and Abolition: Theories and Practices for the 21st Century” via between the lines (via feministquotes)

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Sat, 15 Jun 2013 05:14:35 -0400

yes.

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:28:08 -0400

yes.

"I’m looking at you bro In the “Cool story babe, now make me a sandwich” t-shirt The commonly..."

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:29:05 -0400

“

I’m looking at you
bro
In the “Cool story babe, now make me a sandwich” t-shirt
The commonly uses
“I raped you faggot”
when playing
Video games
To dehumanize
Your straight friends
The white kid who greets his buddies with the n-word
Who’s OkCupid dating profile describes him as a “nice guy”
He’s just sick of getting friend-zoned
Because being just friends with a woman
Is so terrible
Nevermind the fact that he answers yes to the following:
Are women obligated to shave their legs?
Are racist jokes funny?
When a woman is raped, is it sometimes her fault?

I’m looking at you
guy in every women’s studies class ever
who derails dialogue
About a third of the world’s population of women
Who will be raped
In their life times
By asserting
“the wage gap isn’t real”
the guy who starts “PimpWalk” in response
to slutwalk
a demonstration aimed at ending victim blaming
of rape victims
the guy with the “no fat chicks” bumpersticker on his F150
whos confused why
he cant get pussy
to the guy who calls anal rape
“surprise buttsex”
to the one who uses “feminazi”
as a frequent part
of his vernacular
to every guy who has ever thought that a facebook status
about domestic violence
was a good opportunity to practice playing the
devils advocate

to every guy
boy
man
who has ever dismissed feminism
because it didn’t involve him
to every man who has ever raped a woman
to every man who has ever beaten one
isolated one
belittled one
dehumanized one
to every guy
who thinks he’s not like those ones
because
its just a joke
to every guy who is confused why feminists hate him

to every guy
its because
you’re part of a problem
a culture
that won’t stop choking us
but tells us
to just breath

”

- wrote some spoken word for my women’s studies final tomorrow. what do you guys think? (via fat-feminist)

Woah this got like 3 thousands notes thanks guys. Now I just have to perform it in an hour…

(via fat-feminist)

in love with it

(via sluteverbabe)

fuckyeahlaughters: awesomephilia: I AM HUGGING YOU BECAUSE I...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:27:22 -0400

fuckyeahlaughters:

awesomephilia:

I AM HUGGING YOU BECAUSE I LOVE YOU

ALSO SOMEONE ATE ONE OF YOUR SHOES BUT THIS IS NOT ABOUT THAT

"[I hate YouTube because] the player is so ugly, and it’s presented in such a terrible manner. I want..."

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:14:24 -0400

“[I hate YouTube because] the player is so ugly, and it’s presented in such a terrible manner. I want everything I do to be presented in an art context, as this is a form of sonic art. I was an artist originally, I have been in art school since I was 5 years old. I got scholarships to three art schools, Art Institute of Chicago, Saint Xavier, and the American Academy of Art, where I ended up going—and I dropped out because I had an assignment where I was supposed to do an ink painting or something, and I would take two weeks to do it, and when I looked at my work, I just felt that I would never be one of the great visual artists of the world. I just felt like I would end up like—and this is no knock to anybody that does this—but I felt like I would end up working at an ad agency or something like that. I wanted to make something of impact. I found that when I would drop samples, my friends would react to it more. I felt that I had a real talent in chopping and appropriating music. What I want people to understand about sampling and producing is that it’s really similar to—and I know this is obvious what I’m going to say, because I’m a black guy so I’m gonna name the ‘most obvious artist in the world’—Warhol, but it’s very similar to the way Warhol would appropriate a Campbell’s Soup can is the way I would sonically appropriate a Ray Charles sample or a Michael Jackson sample. Right now it’s a fight against the separation and constant dumbing down of culture, and I’m standing in the middle of it. So if you know what people say are my lowest moments, those moments where I sat and saw them try to dumb down culture, and I would not allow it to happen on my clock. So when I used to go to fashion shows with my boys and we’d be eight deep, it was almost like a civil rights, like a sit-in. They wouldn’t even let us in. They had no idea what rap would mean to this world, what rap would mean to the art world. Before the Kendrick Lamars and the A$AP Rockys, it was Kanye West in a hotel room at the Le Maurice getting a ‘no, no, no, no’ to every single fashion show. But I thought it was so important to get close to the artists who worked so hard on making a usable form of art—like this furniture right here, like everything that is in all these rooms that inspire us so much—and I fight in my position of being a very commercial celebrity boyfriend, I fight to push culture forward every chance I get. And I only frown because paparazzi ask me dumbass shit all the time, and I think about changing the world, and I think about what I can do to make things better. And, without further ado, I want to play you guys my new album. It’s called Yeezus.””

- Kanye West (via motsquivont)

I hate when people try to dumb down Kanye West as some cocky asshole who came out of nowhere when he’s really a genius, his own hype man, and the root of every white mans fears.

(via tofuboots)

infinitenap: love fight

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 02:49:25 -0400

infinitenap:

love fight

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Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:06:56 -0400

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Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:43:34 -0400

I also really like grumpy cats

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 01:12:29 -0400

I also really like grumpy cats

hi-coup: Not all politicians are like that!

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:07:47 -0400

hi-coup:

Not all politicians are like that!

Grumpy puppies are my second favorite type of puppy.

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:05:29 -0400

Grumpy puppies are my second favorite type of puppy.