You can murder a liberator but you can’t murder liberation.

1st anniversary of deputy chairman of the Black Panther Party Fred Hampton’s murder, 1970

They may kill the revolutionary… but never the revolution.

1st anniversary of deputy member of the IRA Bobby Sands death, 1982 Murdered by Facist Pigs
Dec. 4, 1969

Murdered by Britain,
May 5th 1981

In 1964 Soviet artists Bronisław Kurago, Viktor Sahaidachny, and Slava Cherevko set out to make portraits for African students studying in Moscow. More than a half-century later Kurago released 35 of these portraits. Read the article for context and added sentimentality. (Thread) Ayo Olaya from Nigeria

Russian outsider artist Alexander Lobanov (thread 🧵) Lobanov was known particularly for his detailed self-portraits, noted for their frequent inclusion of imaginary guns, soviet imagery, and for their self-aggrandizing nature.

i can’t believe this is real wtf 🤯

Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin
Kazakh wearing Malakhai. 1867-1868 Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin
Kazakh wearing national headdress. 1867-1868

Antonio Ligabue (1899 - 1963) 🧵

Utagawa Kuniyoshi 1798 - 1861 Yoko protecting his father from a tiger (1843)

Вильгельм Котарбинский (🧵)

Павел Викторович Рыженко

Every Public Lenin Statue in America (thread 🧵) I'll start with the most controversial and infamous one, The Statue of Lenin in Seattle. This statue got a lot of press last summer when statues of former slave owners were being torn down across the country in protests a lot of alt-right media ran stories about the Seattle Lenin

In June 2001, Konstantin Petrov, an immigrant from Estonia, got a job as an electrician at the restaurant atop the north tower of the World Trade Center. He was an amateur photographer and captured some of the last images of the interior of the WTC buildings. (thread 🧵) Petrov worked the night shift. This suited him because he had a day job and because he was an avid photographer, and the emptiness of the Trade Center at night, together with the stunning vistas at dawn, gave him a lot to shoot, and a lot of time and space in which to shoot it.

Everyone complaining about this clearly hasn't looked into it very much. They are not destroying the statue, they are relocating it 8 km away to Dianjiangtai, where historically Guan Yu is said to have drilled his troops. The statue was also built illegally in the first place.

https://twitter.com/hkfp/status/1435818868631474177

The developers didn't have proper clearances for it, they just had permission to build the pedestal/museum, and also it's so heavy that the land under it was literally sinking under its weight. It surpassed the legal height limit, of course, they have to move it.

A series of four Twin Peaks 'spin-off' commercials were directed by David Lynch for the Japanese company Georgia Coffee in 1993. These commercials only ever aired in Japan. Despite being aimed at a Japanese audience, most of the dialogue is in English.

Originally the second series of four were planned, but the Coffee company, unhappy with the first series, canceled them.

没有共产党就没有新中国 — 红歌王好弟

In 1987, Paul Brancato, a violinist for the San Francisco Orchestra, and Salim Yaqub, then a young designer just out of art school, teamed up to create a playing card set devoted to the late-1980s Iran-Contra scandal. (Thread of all 36 cards) The cards aimed to give an overview of the nooks and crannies of the entire affair, showcasing the cast of players in the US, Latin America, and the Middle East. The cards start with the Iran-Contra Hearings themselves (Card 1), depicting a dour and seemingly cowed Oliver North.

in 1972 revolutionary cuban artist René Mederos was sent to Vietnam by The OSPAAAL (Organization of Solidarity with the People of Asia, Africa and Latin America), to capture war scenes and make art to serve as part of a campaign to support the people of Vietnam. (thread) The Vietnam Vencera (“Vietnam will Triumph”) portfolio, a very rare document of Cuban revolutionary propaganda, is made up of 13 screen printed posters.

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The most unusual and rare icons of the “Holy Trinity” are mixed-hypostatic. (thread) The word hypostasis means the essence of being or form, the way of its manifestation. The name “mixed-hypostatic” is given because the faces of God the Father, God the Son and the Holy Spirit on the icon do not differ from each other. All the faces are brought together into one.