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Our media has the tendency to bombard us with dehumanizing images of the female body. Instead of presenting women as fully-realized individuals, it dissects us into sexualized parts like “breast,” “butt,” or “thigh.” The photographer Roger Weiss explains this sort of objectification thusly: “The image of women of our times has been reduced to a pattern, a combination of codes and models that lead to the woman/individual instead of the other way around.”
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Years ago, a young lady named Behnaz Babazadeh showed up to her school in the United States wearing a burqa. Her mother had told her she didn’t have to wear it and even feared the other children would mock her for it, but the child likes her hijab and decided to wear it anyway. When she arrived at the doors, the security guard told her she would not be allowed inside unless she removed the fabric from around her face.
Emma Rister's curator insight,
March 22, 2016 8:33 AM
"Years ago, a young lady named Behnaz Babazadeh showed up to her school in the United States wearing a burqa. She moved to the states at the age of seven, and in some ways, the burqa allowed her to feel in some small way connected to her childhood in Afghanistan and Iran, where girls typically start wearing the scarf at four years old. Many years have elapsed, and Babazadeh is now a photographer, but that moment will remain imprinted in her mind forever. She uses nets, plastic sheets, and other invisible tools to sew her outfits, which can get quite messy after up to four hours of shooting. Women, explains the artist, have used the headscarf to signify their social status for generations. For many, it’s still a means of personal expression."
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Bedrooms of the Fallen was conceived in 2007 as a way to memorialise soldiers and marines who died as a result of conflict in Iraq. It was expanded to include casualties from Afghanistan in 2009 and the project is ongoing. Gilbertson visited families in America, the UK and Europe who have kept their children’s bedrooms intact. Gilbertson wanted people to realise that there was more to just the names and ranks of people who had died in a foreign place, he wanted people to feel the loss as one of their own.
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“Your tears are relevant. Your feelings are important. You are capable to move through and move on.” Via Andrea Fernandes
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LOS ANGELES — Customizing Language, organized by Los Angeles-based curators Idurre Alonso and Selene Preciado at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), explores how geopolitical power is expressed and managed through language, and enhances our understanding of it as a verbal communication system.
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darksilenceinsuburbia: “ Marwane Pallas: What I Eat ”
Deanna Dahlsad's insight:
Art looking at vice & consumption
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this-is-life-actually: “ This photographer is using her art to combat a major breastfeeding stigma Singapore-based photgrapher Jen Pan is aiming to de-stigmatize breastfeeding, one stunning image at a...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art's redesigned website embraces a future in which we're all staring into our phones, even at the museum. Via THE OFFICIAL ANDREASCY
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Hundreds of thousands of Americans have Asperger’s syndrome, a developmental disorder on the autism spectrum. Kelsey is one of them. For the last two years
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archiemcphee: “ Art + Science = Awesome Agar Art This year that American Society for Microbiology (ASM) launched the Agar Art Contest. Members of the ASM were invited to create and submit pieces of...
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Frida Kahlo left her mark on the city where she was born in 1907 and lived with Diego Rivera until her death in 1954. Her home, the Casa Azul, is now a museum and pilgrimage site for many who consider the artist an early Mexican feminist
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Stunning photos of her home!
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Christy Brown, the Irish writer and artist only able to move his left foot, created an amazing legacy. But who was he really? Via bobbygw
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For 10 weeks in a disused church basement somewhere in the Midwest, Julie Schenkelberg built a turbulent installation of broken furniture, found objects, and housing rubble anointed with blue and g…
eyedelightart 's curator insight,
April 10, 2016 2:56 AM
Iv never seen anything like this. Its not everybodies cup of tea, but inspiration has hit me head on!
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The most overlooked aspect of an artwork is by no means the least important, as specialist Tom Rooth explains
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"Plants and flowers appeared throughout Frida Kahlo’s paintings, and although interpreting her art regularly evokes her biography of illness, injury, pain, and tumultuous love, the first exhibition to examine her work from a botanical perspective opens this week at a garden. Constructing a tribute to the flora of her Casa Azul home in Coyoacán south of Mexico City, which she shared off and on with muralist Diego Rivera, the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) in the Bronx pairs this assembly of cacti, succulents, perennials, and other leafy specimens from her garden with a small exhibition of 14 drawings and paintings."
Frida Kahlo: Art, Garden, Life opens at the New York Botanical Garden (2900 Southern Boulevard, The Bronx) on May 16 and continues through November 1.
Via Caroline Claeys, Thomas-Penette Michel
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Watch the video Picasso oil painting goes for $179 million at auction on Yahoo News . A Picasso oil painting gets $179 million at a Christie's auction in New York. Julie Noce reports. Via Gallery225
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Wrinkles, lines, scars, spots. There are many ways time leaves its mark on the human body. Mainstream culture typically dreads the aging process and all its defining characteristics -- gray hair, sagging skin, translucent complexion. Of cou...
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A colony or cloud of bats hangs upside down in this illustrated gravure print from 1887 entitled "Wonderful Flying Foxes."
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These bizarre teacups are the work of Etsy seller VoodooDelicious. Unfortunately, the handmade items cannot be used for drinking and exist merely to enhanc
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The Golden Mean, a universal truth underlying all design, has practical, real-world applications. Via association concert urbain
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To celebrate the 40th anniversary of International Women's Year, Sydney University's the Tin Sheds is exhibiting a range of posters to celebrate female activism Via Caroline Claeys
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An exhibition at the Madrid museum includes three-dimensional copies of works for visually impaired patrons to touch. Via Skuuppilehdet
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Just in case you thought the 1950s were such a pure time... Via.
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US authorities tried to ban them, but a gang of artists, models and writers made a living from dirty books sold under-the-counter in 1950s New York. Enter a world of Raw Dames and superheroes
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Though street art is still a boys’ club, women like ELLE, Swoon and Vexta are trying to change the status quo Via Caroline Claeys
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Curated by Deanna Dahlsad
An opinionated woman obsessed with objects, entertained by ephemera, intrigued by researching, fascinated by culture & addicted to writing. The wind says my name; doesn't put an @ in front of it, so maybe you don't notice. http://www.kitsch-slapped.com
Other Topics
A Marketing Mix
Adventures in advertising and marketing - the contemporary, the historical, and the hysterical. http://deanna.dahlsad.com/
Antiques & Vintage Collectibles
Collecting old things; heirlooms and new to you things! Companion to http://www.inherited-values.com/
Colorful Prism Of Racism
Racism past and present. Companion to http://www.kitsch-slapped.com/category/colorful-prism-of-racism/
Consumption Junction
Consumerism meets marketing; who & what manipulates the free market of goods & services. See also: http://www.kitsch-slapped.com/category/ze-big-mouth-promotions-stuff/
Crimes Against Humanity
From lone gunmen on hills to mass movements. Depressing as hell, really.
Cultural History
The roots of culture; history and pre-history.
Dare To Be A Feminist
For Art's Sake-1
Art, crafts, and the people who make them. To inspire and purchase. Companion to http://www.ululating-undulating-ungulate.com/
Herstory
History as this woman sees it. The serious, the kitsch, the opinionated. Companion to http://www.kitsch-slapped.com/
In The Name Of God
Mainly acts done in the name of religion, but also discussions of atheism, faith, & spirituality.
Kinsanity
Let's just say I have reasons to learn more about mental health, special needs children, psychology, and the like.
Kitsch
Mostly vintage and retro "badness" but you can decide how delicious it is. http://www.kitschy-kitschy-coo.com/blog/
Nerdy Needs
The stuff of nerdy, geeky, dreams.
Readin', 'Ritin', and (Publishing) 'Rithmetic
The meaning behind the math of the bottom line in publishing and the media. For writers, publishers, and bloggers (which are a combination of the two).
Sex Positive
Sexuality as a human right.
Vintage Living Today For A Future Tomorrow
It's as easy to romanticize the past as it is to demonize it; instead, let's learn from it. More than living simply, more than living 'green', thrifty grandmas knew the importance of the 'economics' in Home Economics. The history of home ec, lessons in thrift, practical tips and ideas from the past focused on sustainability for families and out planet. Companion to http://www.thingsyourgrandmotherknew.com/
Visiting The Past
Travel based on grande ideas, locations, and persons of the past.
Walking On Sunshine
Stuff that makes me smile.
You Call It Obsession & Obscure; I Call It Research & Important
Links to (many of) my columns and articles.
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