Today is the 45th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, and we are still fighting for a woman's right to bodily autonomy. Kiki Smith, Sleeping woman with standing wolf, 2004
Absolutely true.
i think children would read more books if we called them ‘tomes’ instead of books and all libraries were either great towering castles or deep, dark sprawling labyrinths full of skulls and thousands of candles, with magnificent baroque furniture and obligatory hidden doors and forbidden sections full of apocryphal grimoires and lost-to-the-ages secrets.
Over a hundred museums and libraries around the world make coloring books based on their collections for the Color Our Collections program, led by the New York Academy of Medicine. Along with three previous annual collections, there are now 396 PDF coloring books you can print out!
Here The Whitney’s assistant curator Elisabeth Sherman talks to Vox’s Dean Peterson about Minimalist art. It was the Minimalist’s who moved art from “being about something” else towards the idea of a piece of art as “an object unto itself.” As Sherman states in the video, “It’s very easy to be dismissive of things we’re not immediately attracted to” and I’m not attracted to Minimalist art myself, it just doesn’t resonate with me. But, I thought it was worth watching this 6 minute video as it provides very brief introduction into what Minimalist art is all about.
Kiki Smith, Lilith 1994
In medieval Jewish lore, Lilith was Adam’s first wife. When she demanded to be Adam’s equal, she was evicted from the Garden of Eden. Lilith flew away to the demon world, replaced by the more submissive Eve. Most statues receive our gaze passively, but Lilith stares back with piercing eyes, ready to pounce.
Night sky woodblock print.
Paul Binnie
Comet McNaught
blue
Twilight
Clarence Gagnon, 1913, oil on canvas
“I remember how I felt when I received the spirit of poetry. It was in the year of 1877 … all of a sudden my body got inflamed, and instantly I was seized with a strong desire to write poetry, so strong, in fact, that in imagination I thought I heard a voice crying in my ears- ‘Write! Write’”
- William Topaz McGonagall, widely hailed as the writer of the “worst poetry in the English language,” according to the website McGonagall Online.
His audiences threw rotten fish at him, the authorities banned his performances, and he died a pauper over a century ago. But his books remain in print to this day, and he’s remembered and quoted long after more talented contemporaries have been forgotten.
“What is so real as the cry of a child?
A rabbit's cry may be wilder
But it has no soul.”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel
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by Anna Pugh