A Flummoxed Bird

audio 19 Nov [Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

jay-z “feelin’ it”

even if it aint sunny..hey, i aint complainin’…..

played 44 times.

while the influence of african art on modern painting and sculpture has been explored, man ray, african art and the modernist lens examines a parallel history, the role of photography in shaping international understanding of african objects as art, in the 1920s and 1930s. the exhibition reveals photography’s complex engagement with african art by exploring african art in the context of american modernism and the harlem renaissance, surrealism, and the worlds of high fashion and popular culture, at the same time as it investigates issues of race, gender, and colonialism during the modernist era.
man ray (emmanuel radnitsky, 1890–1976) was an artist in many mediums, but he is best known as an avant-garde photographer. his noire et blanche (1926), showing a white model with a black mask, is an icon of modern photography

man ray, african art and the modernist lensoctober 10, 2009-january 10, 2009the phillips collection1600 21st street, nwwashington, dc 20009
click: for more info
click: man ray

while the influence of african art on modern painting and sculpture has been explored, man ray, african art and the modernist lens examines a parallel history, the role of photography in shaping international understanding of african objects as art, in the 1920s and 1930s. the exhibition reveals photography’s complex engagement with african art by exploring african art in the context of american modernism and the harlem renaissance, surrealism, and the worlds of high fashion and popular culture, at the same time as it investigates issues of race, gender, and colonialism during the modernist era.
man ray (emmanuel radnitsky, 1890–1976) was an artist in many mediums, but he is best known as an avant-garde photographer. his noire et blanche (1926), showing a white model with a black mask, is an icon of modern photography

man ray, african art and the modernist lens
october 10, 2009-january 10, 2009
the phillips collection
1600 21st street, nw

washington, dc 20009

click: for more info

click: man ray

photo 18 Nov

tariqrahman:

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Scenes from Havana - The Big Picture

Interesting article on the recent “opening” of Cuba via BBC

via Tumbling Tariq.

quote 17 Nov

it seems that the more places i see & experience, the bigger i realize the world to be. the more i become aware of, the more i realize how relatively little i know of it, how many places i have still to go, how much more there is to learn. maybe that’s enlightenment enough - to know that there is no final resting place of the mind, no moment of smug clarity. perhaps wisdom, at least for me, means realizing how small i am, & unwise, and how far i have yet to go.

— anthony bourdain (via dreamnoises) (via laeticia)

photo 17 Nov via