Inside the Magical and Relentlessly Creative World of Beloved Artist Kiki Smith – Artsy

Inside the Magical and Relentlessly Creative World of Beloved Artist Kiki Smith – Artsy:

Over her four-decade-long career, artist Kiki Smith has made sculptures of body parts, tapestries depicting animals and the cosmos, and drawings of wolves and women—a strange confluence of the corporeal and the fantastic, with distinct feminist undertones. Smith is known as a leader of the downtown art scene that emerged in Manhattan throughout the 1980s, and many of her pieces have a dark fairy-tale quality—as if they could illustrate pages from the Brothers Grimm. I expected for the artist herself to have a bit of magic about her.

MOTHA Is Preserving Transgender Hirstory One City at a Time

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MOTHA Is Preserving Transgender Hirstory One City at a Time

With an unconventional museum model, Chris E. Vargas is helping trans people see themselves through art and objects.

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Transition – Imgur

 

Transition – Imgur:

20+ Dark Pics Show What’s Wrong With Our Society, And You Won’t Get Some Without Looking At The Titles | Bored Panda

20+ Dark Pics Show What’s Wrong With Our Society, And You Won’t Get Some Without Looking At The Titles | Bored Panda:

 As much as we hate to admit it, we’re all very vulnerable. The SUN Project is a four-person art collaboration that focuses on the destructive and painful emotions we often hide. Fronted by Mimi N, the group produces illustrations almost daily and have already built a 164,000-strong following. From loneliness to depression and beyond, the SUN Project perfectly captures the feelings you’ve probably felt on quite a few rainy Sunday evenings.A

Looking In From the Outside – Original Artwork

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Time

I’m beginning to think going back to a nine to five job may not be the best path for me. There are some personal reasons but more than them is the problems I’m beginning to have problems driving at night and I’m starting to be concerned it won’t be too much longer before it becomes unsafe.

Also I wonder if this isn’t a sign I need to step off the easier path and follow my heart. I have wanted to create art since I was a child but allowed fear to keep me from following my dreams. 

Maybe it’s finally time to trust myself.

12 Female Curators Talk About Their Favorite Female Artists

12 Female Curators Talk About Their Favorite Female Artists:

“At the start of Women’s History Month last year, the National Museum of Women in the Arts posed a question to their social-media followers: Can you name five women artists? In an attempt to bring the undersung work of women in the visual arts to the surface, the museum (and several others around the country) began telling stories and sharing works from female-identifying artists in their collections. The hope was that by the end of March, hungry art consumers — and total newbies — would be able to name, recognize, and admire female artists besides Frida Kahlo and Georgia O’Keeffe.”

(Via. The Cut)

A lonely artist sits drawing in a coffee shop. When she holds up her sketchbook, it’s just magical.

The first abstract artist? (And it’s not Kandinsky) | Tate

The first abstract artist? (And it’s not Kandinsky) | Tate:

“Wassily Kandinsky is generally regarded as the pioneer of abstract art. However, a Swedish woman called Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) might claim that title”

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