“Sometimes it’s best to stop improving yourself, and start embracing yourself instead.”
“Face of Africa” by Margaret Burroughs, woodcut (1950s). My favorite in the Making History: 20th Century African American Art exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia through June 10, 2012. Taken at the museum.
“She was not yet the famous O’Keeffe. She was merely the local bohemian. And yet, all these men, all of a different stripe… couldn’t stay away. Her secret? Loving her own life. Find the things that came her way of immense interest and animating them. No matter what was going on, it was great to be her, starring in her own true-life adventure.”
“Creativity does not have to be writing or painting or singing… it can be how you walk through the day. Cultivate the art in your lifestyle and life becomes brighter and easier.”
D’Angelo…..he’s baaaaccccck….
Frederick J. Brown, an American artist who explored the relationship between music and painting in portraits of hundreds of jazz and blues artists, died on May 5 at his home in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was 67. …Brown occasionally painted in the abstract mode, but he was largely a figurative painter unafraid of grand projects—large-scale canvases, murals, extended series. He was known for placing his subjects, often African-Americans rendered in muted tones, against backgrounds of intense color.
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“Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.”
The invite to the screening of HBO’s new Marina Abramović The Artist Is Present documentary can stare at itself.
(Source: hyperallergic)
Sometimes you have to - no, all the time you have to- be careful about speaking about your relationship. There is a very intimate nature to love, and when you open it up to outside opinions you lose your intimacy. Don’t let it happen to you. Protect your relationships. Let your friends be dramatic… You can just be happy. xoxo Dana
