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"Studies of sedentary flesh, painted by men who'd never been there. These pictures were supposed to be erotic, and I thought they were, at the time; but I see now what they were really about. They were paintings about suspended animation; about waiting, about objects not in use. They were paintings about boredom. But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men."

Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

Frank Dicksee, Leila (1892) / John William Godward, The Favourite (1901) / Thomas Couture, The Romans in their Decadence (1847) / Frederic Leighton, Flaming June (1895)

The Terminal (Steven Spielberg, 2004)

i want to live above a bookstore café and have a little balcony garden you can see from the street that is all

Wallace Polsom, A Cat Is Not a Dog (for T. S. Eliot) (2021), paper collage, 21.9 x 28.2 cm.

chinese snuff bottle via 丨鶴廬丨

Sunflowers (2024), six reshuffled jigsaw puzzles, 18,5x20,5cm

Paper Works by D.M. Nagu

“This is a new meaning of family. It’s not a question of a man and a woman and children, which we grow up knowing as a family. It’s a question of a group of human beings in a mutual bond.”

Paris Is Burning (1990) dir. Jennie Livingston

Strange Days - Brendon Burton

On The End of Summer & Beginning of Fall

some of my favourite vídeo essays about art history:

whose migrant mother was this? the story of the native american woman who became the face of the 1930s depression (and got almost nothing for it)

bauhaus design is everywhere, but its roots are political how even a simple choice between what font to use can be a political act

edvard munch: what a cigarette means munch + tobacco = art? (yes we’re still on the topic of art as a political weapon)

art that was never finished how great masters sometimes even didn’t finish stuff. also! the history behind the colour aquamarine

fka twigs on mary magdalene (if you like asmr you’re gonna love this)

having a coke with frank ohara (technically not art history but this video is too good for me not to mention)

video postcard: woman at her toilette a quick dive into my favourite painting of woman impressionist berthe morisot

this documentary about georgia o´keeffe (that ive seen about 10 times)

david hockney on vincent van gogh on love of nature, beauty, attention, and the art of looking (essentially a mary oliver poem in interview format!!!!)