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Van Gogh Multimedial (Florence, Italy) 

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Wait who is the fourth friend :o

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It disgusts me that the answer to “Isn’t this racist/orientalist?” is nothing more than NO. How about some dialogue?

Literature received from an MFA representative defending the museum’s “Kimono Wednesdays” program:

Key Messages

The MFA celebrates art from all cultures and time periods. “Kimono Wednesdays” are an effort to engage visitors with Monet’s portrait and our current celebration of Japanese art and culture throughout the Museum with the exhibitions “Hokusai” and “In the Wake” and our recently reopened Tenshin-En Garden (this year marks the 125th Anniversary of the Museum’s Department of Asian Art).

These replica kimonos were made by a well-known kimono maker in Kyoto for a commission by Japanese broadcaster NHK for the traveling exhibition “Looking East,” which explored how the art and culture of Japan inspired 19th-century artists, like Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet. The kimonos were available to try on at Museums in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Nagoya.

The chance to try on a kimono (more accurately, uchikake)&emdash;just like Camille Monet’s in La Japonaise&emdash;presents an opportunity to inform our visitors about “japonisme” and the influence of Japanese art and culture on Monet and other Impressionists. It provides an opportunity for visitors to consider how heavy the robe is, how it feels to wear it, what choices the artist made in creating the pose, and how he used paint to capture the effects of the textile.

Monet appreciated Japanese art and had built a personal collection of Japanese wood block prints and theatrical costumes. The kimono that Monet’s wife wears in the painting is presumably one from Monet’s own collection.

Isn’t this racist/orientalist?

We don’t think this is racist. We hope visitors come away with a better understanding of how Japanese art influenced impressionists like Monet. However, we respect everyone’s opinion and welcome dialogue about art and culture in the Museum

I feel like this is cultural apporpriation, and I think you should stop having these events.

The Museum is a place for dialogue and we appreciate your feedback. At this time we are planning to continue “Kimono Wednesdays” through the month of July, and hope it prompts many conversations about art and culture in Japan and the West.

What is Japonisme?

Beginning in the late 19th century, a craze for all things Japanese brought a radical shift in Western art that came to be known as japonisme. By the 1870s, japonisme had engulfed Paris and Monet’s La Japonaise is a commentary on the Parisian fad for all things Japanese. Camille’s blonde wig was meant to emphasize her Western identity.

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Please don’t spread the name and face of the Charleston shooter, call him a white terrorist because that’s all he is, don’t give him the respect of learning his name or recognizing his face. All he wants is to be famous, now he will be infamous. He only deserves to be known as a white homegrown terrorist and imagined as a monster because that’s what he is. Instead learn the names and faces of the victims, they deserve to be remembered not the monster.

Remember:

Clementa Pinckney

A Democrat state senator who was also the pastor at the Emanuel African Methodist Church.

Cynthia Hurd

A librarian at the Charleston County Public Library. She’d been working there for 31 years and was a manager as St. Andrews Regional Library.

Sharonda Coleman-Singleton

She was a revered and a mother of three, she was also the coach of the track team.

Tywanza Sanders

A recent graduate from Allen University in Columbia. He was recently working as a barber. It is said that he died trying to save one of his family members.

Please, if you hear about more of the victims, add their names and a little about their life. 

Go to this link to learn more about these victims. What I posted is only a short summary.

Also if anything like this happens again, do this instead of showing the shooter/terrorist. This is a tragedy and I will do my best to raise awareness, I hope you will too. Thank you.

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Happy birthday, Anne Frank.

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how hard does this damn tweet go though

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"He wanted to settle down. He wanted kids and a good job and a yard for a dog to run in. I wanted New York. And London. And maybe Thailand for a year or two. I wanted to write and to live in a shitty apartment and to be in love in a tumultuous way. I was barely 21; I didn’t want it to be easy yet."

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aerial sculpture, boston’s rose kennedy greenway/janet echelman

via: bluevertical

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Louis C.K. on slavery

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good things take time! :)