BlackNightmare

Nina Simone performing on a TV show filmed at BBC Television Centre in London, 1966. 

Photos by David Redfern

mariah carey, donatella versace & beyoncé by mario testino, 2003

I can’t believe we live in a society where men who beat women have thriving careers, men who yell at interviewers disrespectfully, storm out of rooms, yell, throw things, and verbally abuse women continue to find success. But when a woman, who has been trapped in an unbearable situation, reaches out for help and tries to tell her story.. She gets completely shut down. I’m so sorry, Kesha. You don’t deserve this. You don’t deserve to be stifled creatively and you don’t deserve to be forced to work with someone who sexually assaulted you. This is so disgusting. 

Absolutely agree. Kesha we hear you.

I pray that whoever reads this, that God heals whatever is hurting you.

Whatever is causing all those precious tears to fall from your eyes; whatever is breaking your heart, if it’s stress, anxiety, pain, illness, sadness, worry, the loss of a loved one, a divorce, a broken engagement, anything.

I pray that God heals all that is causing your distress and that He gives you something greater in return.

yup i can feel it

reblogging this is gonna make me rich

BBHMM

“That girl is fiercely strong, independent, outspoken, beautiful, capable of anything and no man or magazine should be able to take that away from her.”

Old 19th century books with marbled page edges

Smooth

if you don’t reblog this you deserve to be shot by Tupac’s ghost.

That last comment freaked me out so… yeah.

Powder compact, 1930s.

Amandla Stenberg discussing appropriation of black culture. (x)

Ohhhh the children are using their platform. Protect them at all costs! 

This was so beautiful and eloquently put. 💖

if artistic people are forced to take years of math and science then why don’t sciencey people have to take art and music classes

someone found a real life plot hole

boom bitch

And if you’re “bad” at art and music, then “it’s okay, not everyone has an aptitude for those kinds of things” but if you’re bad at math and science, then “you’re not smart/you’re not trying hard enough”

never loved a gif so much

this is kinda creepy tho

The story behind this painting is very interesting, though.  The artist’s mother was very sick, so the house was always filled a suffocating silence.  This painting depicts him wanting to scream, but having to be silent, hence the anguished expression.  In the whole painting you see figures in the background, one of which is his sister.

by the time Edvard Munch painted The Scream, his mother (as well as one of his sisters) had died from tuberculosis. his father passed from a heart condition and his other sister was admitted into an insane asylum. while some people think this painting is a self portrait, it is lead to be believed that it is a combination of both Munch and his sick sister whose asylum was located near the environment of the painting.

some choose to believe that The Scream depicts the sounds coming from the local asylum while others think it depicts the psychological turmoil of dealing with insanity. either way, it is a truly haunting piece.

ART HISTORY

wow

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