Bridget Riley with black-and-white studies in her Warwick Road studio, London, early 1960s
ph. Jorge Lewinski

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ph. Jorge Lewinski
Eartha Kitt during her performance at the Persian Room, Plaza Hotel, New York, 1961.
WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST (1958)
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it drives me bonkers the way people don't know how to read classic books in context anymore. i just read a review of the picture of dorian gray that said "it pains me that the homosexual subtext is just that, a subtext, rather than a fully explored part of the narrative." and now i fully want to put my head through a table. first of all, we are so lucky in the 21st century to have an entire category of books that are able to loudly and lovingly declare their queerness that we've become blind to the idea that queerness can exist in a different language than our contemporary mode of communication. second it IS a fully explored part of the narrative! dorian gray IS a textually queer story, even removed from the context of its writing. it's the story of toxic queer relationships and attraction and dangerous scandals and the intertwining of late 19th century "uranianism" and misogyny. second of all, i'm sorry that oscar wilde didn't include 15k words of graphic gay sex with ao3-style tags in his 1890 novel that was literally used to convict him of indecent behaviour. get well soon, i guess...
Pink Lemonade
Cristo de los Espejos, 2019
Valerio Gámez
Mystic Eyes “If your eyes were but open, you would see wonderful things,"…”Heaven is in a holy man," and hence everywhere that he stands, sits, or lies, there is heaven also. --Jakob Boehme (1575-1624)
God, I could eat a horse!
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER
3.03 | Faith, Hope & Trick
Without the depths, I do not have the heights.’ Carl Jung, the Red Book. Art: Caroline Harrison
Olga Zelinskaya (Georgian,b,1974)
Moon Gryphon, 2021
Oil on canvas