TAYSUT

One of the more frustrating trends I’ve noticed in archives & museum collections is how many paintings that, based on the text descriptions, you would have absolutely no clue that a person of color is in it. The boy with the parrot was probably the caretaker of the menagerie. The same artist did several other portraits of important servants in the Medici household in groups.

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (British, b. 1977), Leave A Brick Under The Maple, 2015. Oil on canvas, 200 x 130 cm.

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Jewel, 2012 Oil on Canvas, Courtesy of the artist, Corvi-Mora, Londra and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York

That one time when Dave Chapelle accurately portrayed mainstream gay white male culture

Frank O'Hara, Mayakovsky  (via mydarlingbudsofmay)

byeee

I see what you did there👀

8-26-16 - Rihanna out and about in NYC