this isn't about Lulu

Now there’s a great idea.

thanks, homedesigning:

Workspace of the day.

Giant Marilyn | Chicago Pix & video.
It’s kinda everywhere now but this link has a couple videos embedded into the page.

i12bent:

July 8, 1907 saw the premiere of The Ziegfeld Follies in NYC…

Above: Helen Barnes, wearing a costume and headpiece decorated with balloons, for the Midnight Frolics… (The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts / Jerome Robbins Dance Division)

i12bent:

Barbara Morgan (July 8, 1900 - 1992) was one of the great dance photographers…

Barbara Morgan: Martha Graham, American Document, 1938 - silver print

I think of the Baroque period more in terms of architecture and music. Ordinarily, in art the term means having excessively complex, indirect or obscure themes.

i12bent:

Baroque artist of great distinction, Artemisia Gentileschi: July 8, 1593 – 1652/1653…

Above: Saint Cecilia, or Woman Playing a Lute, c. 1610-12 - oil on canvas (Spada Gallery, Rome)

One of the few female painters from the Upper Renaissance or any other time in pre- “Enlightenment” Europe. Artemisia.

i12bent:

Artemisia Gentileschi’s best-known painting is Judith Decapitating Holofernes - a work created in response to her rape by Tassi, a painter and friend of her father. The painting above is a companion piece to the more violent decapitation picture, reflecting Artemisia’s continued work of coming to terms with her violation…

Artemisia Gentileschi: Judith and Her Maid-Servant, 1613-14 - oil on canvas (Palazzo Pitti, Florence)

katespadeny:

good morning in #blackandwhite (Taken with Instagram at Empire State Building)