Stuff I Like

Before Night Falls (2000) // dir. Julian Schnabel

Not exactly in Kansas: my collection of vintage Wizard of Oz imagery.

In that process, Angel Ortiz was framed as hired labor instead of a collaborator, even though his work remains visible on paintings, sculptures, and objects shown in major institutions today. Angel has said openly that race played a role in his erasure, and photographer Clayton Patterson has explained how institutions chose a simpler version of the story that centered one white artist and removed a Puerto Rican collaborator. Angel Ortiz is still working as an artist today, and the time has come for the art world to give him clear credit for the work he helped create…yuliaxgon

M.C. Escher, Self-Portrait in a Chair, 1920

Saint Francis preaching to the Birds, woodcut by M.C. Escher, 1922.

“Two Nudes”, 🎨 by Matthijs Röling.

Cary Grant, 1932, at the beginning of his career. He made an astonishing 7 films in 1932 and 6 in 1933.

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Mae West

George Orwell on writing a book

Hercules (127 B.C., unearthed 15th century). Forum Boarium, Capitoline Museums, Rome. gilded bronze

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1st Millennium AD or older