Flow, Gilbert and George, 1988

Untitled (You Construct Intricate Rituals), Barbara Kruger, 1981

youmightfindyourself:

Every angle of the Proenza Schouler partnership has been debated and dissected, with people clamoring to know how they divide responsibilities, trying to figure out if one is the creative genius and one the baggage. But it’s kind of like asking which leg is more important for sprinting. They each produce 100 sketches per season and then compare notes. After 10 years together, they now sketch drawings that would be impossible to tell apart if not for the heads. (McCollough draws his women in profile, Hernandez’s face forward). As they rattle off influences, they pick up each others’ dangling participles the way twins might. They even claim to split the driving, stopping at a gas station midway to swap. It’s no surprise that when one lit up a cigarette over Thanksgiving — after a two-year hiatus — the other did as well. (via)

Rembrandt, A Scholar in His Study, 1654

Holy queer delight (Taken with Instagram)

Beaton and Cooper. No words. (Taken with Instagram)

Lucian Freud, Interior with Plant, Reflection Listening (Self-Portrait), 1968.

Richard Hamilton | Portrait of Derek Jarman (1996-7)

Shortly before the death of the filmmaker and painter Derek Jarman in 1994, the Director of the Tate Gallery gave a lunch in his honour in the Tate Board Room. Hamilton, who was among the guests, took a number of colour Polaroid photographs of Jarman during the lunch and selected one of them as the basis for the eventual image in a painted portrait. That painting by Hamilton shows Jarman’s bespectacled head, wearing a cap, in front of his 1993 oil painting Ataxia - Aids is Fun (Tate Gallery ), which was hanging in the Board Room during the lunch. The title focuses attention on the suffering of those with Aids (and, in this case, also with Ataxia, an affliction of the central nervous system), of whom Jarman was one. [via Tate]

exitentialsexuality:

“Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking.”

-Derek Jarman, At Your Own Risk