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This Artist’s Photo Series Challenges The Perception Of Sex Workers In Art

Awol Erizku’s latest project adds people of color to works like Édouard Manet’s Olympia and Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s La Grande Odalisque.

When walls are this pretty, you would take a photo too. Masdar Institute in Abu Dhabi.

Mammy Water is a pidgin English name for a local water goddess worshipped by the Ibibio, Ijaw, and Igbo speaking peoples of southeastern Nigeria. The water goddess traditionally gives wealth and children, compensates for hardships, and is sought in times of illness and need, especially by women. Her various cults are led, predominantly, by priestesses. This acclaimed documentary shows numerous rituals and ceremonies associated with Mammy Water, while devotees provide commentary. This is an important depiction of the strength of traditional religion in contemporary Nigeria and one of the few academically sound investigations of the role of women in an African spiritual movement.

Hombría Muerta

Acrylic and mixed media on panel

Sergio Bonilla