ERIK BENDER

Interior, Edgar Degas, 1868-69

Maurice Denis - Bord de mer 1895

Little Brother - Norah Neilson Gray

1922

The Guerrilla Girls Are Still Relevant After All These Years

“A work I’d never seen before, “Token Times” (1995), cut close to the bone despite the fact that it’s 20 years old. I texted a picture of it to a few of my female art world friends and got laughing exclamations of recognition in response to the poster’s tongue-in-cheek descriptions of entry-level art world jobs for women. Months before, we’d sent around a New York Times article with statistics for the low numbers of female museum directors, underlining how few women work their way up from entry-level museum jobs into the upper administrative echelon. As detailed in the article, a 2014 report by the Association of Art Museum Directors found that only 24% of institutions with budgets over $15 million have female directors, and these women make 29% less than their male counterparts. In addition, just five of the thirty-three museums with budgets over $20 million have female directors.“

http://hyperallergic.com/199104/the-guerrilla-girls-are-still-relevant-after-all-these-years/

Don’t Cash Crop My Cornrows - a crash discourse on black culture.

Made by me and youre-a-virgin-who-cant-drive for our history class :+)

Trans Artist ​Juliana Huxtable’s Fight for Acceptance

Juliana Huxtable's penis and breasts are both triumphantly on display in Frank Benson's new 3D-scanned plastic sculpture, which is simply titled Juliana. I saw the statue in late February at the opening of the New Museum Triennial—the prestigious New York exhibition that focuses on emerging artists. Exhibited with Huxtable’s poems and futuristic photographs, the presentation offered an intimate look into the sexual and creative evolution the downtown DJ and internet it-girl underwent to become a local trans icon. But, on a personal level, it also served as an intimate message from the artist to her estranged Southern Baptist mother, whom she hadn’t spoken to in five years.

"It was intense for her, as a mother, who was still processing me as I exist in the world," explains Huxtable. "It has been a journey. But to be in a room with people looking at an object of me, as me—that’s why I invited her."

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Anthony cudahy

Jaring Lokhorst Plastic / 2009 / oil on aluminium / 31.5 x 42 cm

Young black woman being taught not to react to smoke being blown in her face, in a Civil Rights class in 1960. I think too few people realize that these people needed to be trained to take the abuse they received. It’s all that much more powerful to realize how much work actually went into it.

“It’s not about color. Why don’t you people get over it?” “Don’t you mean ALL people?”

new pieces up on the website ———- photo is linked ———- click that pic

photos by mohammad reza domiri ganji in iran of: (1,7) the nasir al mulk mosque, or pink mosque, in shiraz; (2,3) the vakil mosque in shiraz; (4) the ceiling of the fifth floor of alighapu in isfahan; (5,9) the vakil bathhouse in shiraz; (6) the imam mosque in isfahan; (8) the jame mosque of yazd

Glorious Melanin

Edgar Degas (1834-1917), Waiting (1882), pastel on paper, 95 x 75 cm. Collection of Musee d’Orsay, Paris, France. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Adrian Ghenie

Kehinde Wiley

Accra, Ghana, 1964.

Photo by Paul Strand