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tempural:

My piecefor the ERASED: Asian Americans In Hollywood exhibit, an ink drawing of 1910′s actor Sessue Hayakawa

From Wikipedia:

His “broodingly handsome”[2] good looks and typecasting as a sexually dominant villain made him a heartthrob among American women during a time of racial discrimination, and he became one of the first male sex symbols of Hollywood.[3][4][5]

Hayakawa’s popularity and sex appeal (“his most rabid fan base was white women”)[7] unsettled many segments of American society which were filled with feelings of the Yellow Peril. With multiple World Wars taking place throughout his career, and rising anti-Asian sentiment in the United States, the types of roles that he usually played were gradually “taken over by other actors who were not as threatening as Hayakawa in terms of race and sex”.[8]

Go check out the exhibit if you’re in LA!
[Support the fundraiser, support azn artists and get prints n other swag!]

asylum-art:

X-Ray and Anatomical Stained Glass Windows by Artist Wim Delvoye

In his ongoing series of Gothic works, initiated in 1999, Belgian artist  Wim Delvoye  about whose tattooed pigs I have blogged about in the past, created some very unusual stained-glass windows and sculptural works made of steel, lead, glass and actual x-ray.

For his “Chapel” series, Delvoye took x-rays of two friends performing sexual acts, then combined the x-rays with stained glass to fill the windows of a gothic-style chapel. Some of the windows simply look as though they are made of an abstract design, when upon closer inspection, one can see teeth, intestines, skulls and other anatomical features.
Source: asylum-art