"Lovers' Tryst" By Yuri Pimenov (1972)

“I want us to be doing things, prolonging life’s duties as much as we can. I want death to find me planting my cabbages, neither worrying about it nor the unfinished gardening.” ― Michel de Montaigne

Roberto Burle Marx

Burle Marx’s most famed completed commission in the U.S. was Miami’s vast, mosaic-embedded Biscayne Boulevard (1988–2004).

The Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx (1909–1994) worked in a variety of artistic mediums, from painting and sculpture to graphic design and mosaics.

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South Asians for Black Power: On Anti-Blackness, Islamophobia, and Complicity

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Towards a “Selfish Solidarity”: Building Deep Investment in the Movement for Black Lives

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I copied this from the Google Doc bc I am afraid of losing these links! Credit goes to the original creators, not me! 

You need to draw and make art or else all the images will stay in your head and you'll get sick

Preview of “Jamie Hewlett” artbook. 400 artworks from Tank Girl to Gorillaz. Published by Taschen (December 1, 2017)

Nina Vatolina, Fascism – The Most Evil Enemy of Women. Everyone to the Struggle Against Fascism, 1941

Works by Oda Jaune (from left to right: Twosome, Untitled, For all to see, Untitled, Untitled, Touched)

OSPAAAL: Organization of Solidarity with People of Asia, Africa and Latin America, 70s posters