Look, I agree that Frida Kahlo was pretty awesome, but can we please make a concerted effort to learn the names of other female artists?
My name is June and I was born in October.
I like art, TV, books, and sometimes fashion.
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Jan
19
It’s been snowing here for 6 days. I haven’t been to work since last Thursday. Yesterday I walked to the grocery store, just to look at something other than the inside of my house. Is this what going crazy feels like?
Ana Mendieta, Silueta Works in Mexico, 1973-77
From The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles:
Ana Mendieta was born into a politically prominent family in Cuba closely affiliated with the Communist movement led by Fidel Castro. When the alliance between Castro’s factions and Mendieta’s father turned sour in 1961, she was sent to live in the United States. Her exile informed the development of her ensuing work; she did not identify with a particular homeland and adopted various sites for her performances and their documentation. The untitled works that comprise the Silueta series, which she preformed as she traveled between Iowa and Mexico, reveal her interest in the earth as a site to address issues of displacement by recording the presence of her body—or the imprint it left behind—within different natural environments. Mendieta often filled in the silhouette of her body on the earth with various materials such as rocks, twigs, and flowers, as well as blood and gunpowder.
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THE BLACK KEYS | “Little Black Submarines”, El Camino
“Operator, please, patch me back to my mind.”
The track starts out acoustic and leads up to a rock out payoff worthy of The White Stripes.
So. Good.
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From 1971, a powerfully succinct letter from Nancy Spero to Lucy Lippard; two highly influential women whose paths crossed numerous times; Spero as a feminist artist, Lippard as a feminist art critic, historian and curator.
