Cosmic Cool 'women' of Robert Pruitt comes to the Studio Museum of Harlem (photos)

Is it possible to be a metamorphosis, while the remaining strongly punished at the same time? Series of crayon Robert Pruitt, titled simply "Woman", shows such not possible an existence - is everywhere.

Pruitt portraits of contemporary African-American women enter science fiction, hip-hop, black power in the 1960s, culture of the comic and romantic loyalty to realism. Conjure influences cultural build identity, Pruitt presented female force from inside collide with external forces to create a captivating and fantastic portrait.

Pruitt, who lives and works in Houston, Texas, uses pencils told as their medium of choice, a drawing made of coal and clay material. His wife, based on his friends and members of the community, enters a world of fantasy somewhere between a music video, tutorial of steampunk and exploration of colonial Africa.

While cultural infused portrait painter Mickalene Thomas permeates his subjects with style, Afrofuturism and a cosmic sense of cool permeate portraits of Pruitt, tying the trends of the time for a greater sense of eternity. Although Pruitt women occupy a changing set of times, places, moods and modes, strength in their eyes and their bodies keeps tied to the land under them.

"Women" is currently on view at the Studio Museum of Harlem until the 27 of October 2013. Check out a preview of the exhibition below and let us know your thoughts in the comments.

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Bombs over Baghdad

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Heavenly dream

The Saturn

Erika

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Lauren (expected)

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Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Wired women are sexually as men?

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It was once widely assumed that the demise of relationships in deference to sex without commitment was driven by men, erroneously labeled as more sexual than women, and that women with men's desires reluctantly complied. In my long career as a relationship counselor, I've argued that women are much more sexual than men. As a result, I've always been hesitant to blame our "hookup culture" smack-DAB on out-of-control men and my doubts were confirmed when I read "Sex on Campus: She Can Play That Game, Too" by Kate Taylor in the New York Times this week. Apparently, women on campus, increasingly interested in their careers, feel that meaningful relationships are too big an investment of time and pursue sex without strings as a result.

Taylor's piece also confirmed my fears about the growing culture of misogyny in America. In my 2005 book Hating Women: America completo Hostile Campaign Against the Fairer Sex, I wrote about the growth of misogyny and women's complicity in their own degradation. I cited, for example, women in the recording industry who become famous more for their bodies than for their talent. But the growing disdain of young men on campus for women is even more troubling than I thought. Taylor's focus in the article is not just that women are equal partners in fueling the hookup culture, but that men's respect for women is declining as well. In one instance, Taylor writes about a young woman who had a drunken night of fun with a fellow student when his roommate peeked his head in and asked "Me, did you score?" She also writes of how many College men feel that a woman that makes out with them, even slightly, owes them sex. For a lot of college women students are seen as little more than playthings.

To be sure, I don't accept the Victorian notion that men are overly sexual, whereas women are sheepish, innocent, and simply want to be taken care of. The idea is based on the flawed evolutionary argument that men seek the widest distribution possible for their gene pool and women seek stability through monogamy.

The consensus of evolutionary biology is that women are mostly monogamous, subordinating sex to security, and their beauty is a tool to ensnare men to eventually take are of their offspring. Men, on the other hand, are deemed to be genetically predisposed to inseminating anything that walks. This view is now being challenged in science. There's a growing contention, like Daniel Bergner's argument in his new book What Do Women Want?, that women are not naturally monogamous and can be just as faithless as men.

In my books on sexuality I have shown that Judaism sees women as being more sexual than men. Unlike other languages, in Hebrew there's no word for "wife." The word for woman and wife is the same. A wife is always a woman, the same before and after she's married. A man must engender his wife's commitment at all times. Jewish law also mandates that a husband fulfill his wife sexually rather than the reverse.

Having said that, the phenomenon uncovered in the New York Times seems to be great for everyone; women want sex, as much as, or more than men, and are getting plenty of it.

Do so why was it such a discouraging story that sat atop the New York Times most popular list for a week?

The one thing women always understood was that the greatest form of sexual pleasure was experienced within the framework of an intimate relationship because it affords couples the freedom to express their sexuality without the fear of a breakup, being hurt, getting too close and then being discarded. Sex is a powerful tool, to motion that bring forth emotions. Women are different to men biologically in the straightforward sense that, with their genitalia on the inside, they experience sex as a more intimate, internal occurrence, where men, with their sexual organs on the outside, can more easily compartmentalize the body from the emotions and often treat sex as something a man does to a woman. Women may biologically be like men in their carnal desire. But they have been historically more mature in linking sex with love. The modern dissociation of the two is troubling, will lead to much heartbreak, and a lot of bad sex.

Shmuley Boteach, "America completo Rabbi," is author of "Kosher Sex," "The Kosher Sutra," and many other international best-selling books. He is currently completing "Kosher Lust." Follow him on Twitter @RabbiShmuley.

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Mark Sánchez exposed to Butt Naked, dancing around with two women in Napa (NSFW VIDEO)

Several months after his "Cacha clumsiness" conquered the Internet, back of Mark is on display. Chances are, Sanchez this latest incident with more love, remember you can always remember.

In the video above, quarterback of the New York Jets 26 years might be dropping his trousers as he dances around with two women. One of those women, Alana Kari, began the movement of dance tomas Sanchez on Tuesday sharing a vine on Twitter, supposedly of a good time in Napa. Described as "a kind of SoCal-based socialite" Deadspin, Kari eliminates the vine once it began gaining widespread attention. According to NESN, Kari also wrote photos with Sanchez in a tasting, a dinner in a limousine and luxury. Once initial Vine was pulled, the brief video below (this without a cameo of naked Fanny Sanchez) soon resurfaced on YouTube.

(H/t Robert Littal)

Shortly after posting that video tamer, TerezOwens.com posted another in which Sanchez dropped his pants.

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Not everyone was happy.

"Just like that, Sanchez Butt folded one to two total Fumble - and count," wrote Johnette Howard of ESPN Sports New York. "And stature of the Jets as the laughingstock of the NFL only marked to another level."

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It was once widely assumed that the demise of relationships in deference to sex without commitment was driven by men, erroneously labeled as more sexual than women, and that women complied with men's desires reluctantly. In my long career as a relationship counselor, I've argued that women are much more sexual than men. As a result, I've always been hesitant to blame our "hookup culture" solely on out-of-control men and my doubts were confirmed when I read "Sex on Campus: She Can Play That Game, Too" by Kate Taylor in the New York Times this week. Apparently, women on campus, increasingly interested in their careers, feel that meaningful relationships are too big an investment of time and pursue sex without strings as a result.

Taylor's piece also confirmed my fears about the growing culture of misogyny in America. In my 2005 book Hating Women: America's Hostile Campaign Against the Fairer Sex, I wrote about the growth of misogyny and women's complicity in their own degradation. I cited, for example, women in the recording industry who become famous more for their bodies than for their talent. But the growing disdain of young men on campus for women is even more troubling than I thought. Taylor's focus in the article is not just that women are equal partners in fueling the hookup culture, but that men's respect for women is declining as well. In one instance, Taylor writes about a young woman who had a drunken night of fun with a fellow student when his roommate peeked his head in and asked "Yo, did you score?" She also writes of how many College men feel that a woman that makes out with them, even slightly, owes them sex. For a lot of college students women are seen as little more than playthings.

To be sure, I don't accept the Victorian notion that men are overly sexual, whereas women are sheepish, innocent, and simply want to be taken care of. The idea is based on the flawed evolutionary argument that men seek the widest distribution possible for their gene pool and women seek stability through monogamy.

The consensus of evolutionary biology is that women are mostly monogamous, subordinating sex to security, and their beauty is a tool to ensnare men to eventually take are of their offspring. Men, on the other hand, are deemed to be genetically predisposed to inseminating anything that walks. This view is now being challenged in science. There's a growing contention, like Daniel Bergner's argument in his new book What Do Women Want?, that women are not naturally monogamous and can be just as faithless as men.

In my books on sexuality I have shown that Judaism sees women as being more sexual than men. Unlike other languages, in Hebrew there's no word for "wife." The word for woman and wife is the same. A wife is always a woman, the same before and after she's married. A man must engender his wife's commitment at all times. Jewish law also mandates that a husband fulfill his wife sexually rather than the reverse.

Having said that, the phenomenon uncovered in the New York Times seems to be great for everyone; women want sex, as much as, or more than men, and are getting plenty of it.

So why was it such a discouraging story that sat atop the New York Times most popular list for a week?

The one thing women always understood was that the greatest form of sexual pleasure was experienced within the framework of an intimate relationship because it affords couples the freedom to express their sexuality without the fear of a breakup, being hurt, getting too close and then being discarded. Sex is a powerful tool, a motion that bring forth emotions. Women are different to men biologically in the straightforward sense that, with their genitalia on the inside, they experience sex as a more intimate, internal occurrence, where men, with their sexual organs on the outside, can more easily compartmentalize the body from the emotions and often treat sex as something a man does to a woman. Women may biologically be like men in their carnal desire. But historically they have been more mature in linking sex with love. The modern dissociation of the two is troubling, will lead to much heartbreak, and a lot of bad sex.

Shmuley Boteach, "America's Rabbi," is author of "Kosher Sex," "The Kosher Sutra," and many other international best-selling books. He is currently completing "Kosher Lust." Follow him on Twitter @RabbiShmuley.

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Barbara Streisand Slams I treat women Jewish Ultra Orthodox in Israel, receives doctorate honoris cause from the Hebrew University

Jerusalem - Actor Barbra Streisand got into one of topics even in Israel on Monday in the first big stop on his tour around the country - Jewish religious practices that separate men and women.

Speaking at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on Monday, where received a honorary doctorate, she pointed to cases of ultra-Orthodox Jews targeted women, as well as warmly praised the country.

"I know that it is not easy to fully understand the dynamics of what happens in a foreign country," he said.

But "is painful to read about women are forced to sit in the back of the bus or when we hear of the"women of the wall"Israel have metal chairs them thrown when trying to peacefully and legally pray."

Referred to isolated incidents in which ultra-Orthodox men tried to force women to sit separately in the back of the bus ranging through their neighborhoods, as well as more serious clashes in which ultra-Orthodox Jews tried to prevent women donning prayer shawls and carry the Torah scrolls of pray at the wall of lamentations in Jerusalem, the holiest site where Jews can worship.

According to traditional Orthodox Jewish practice, only men wear prayer shawls and handle rolls of the Torah, although that is changing slowly in some places. Ultra-Orthodox Jews, who are cut off from the rest of society, but have disproportionate power in Government and religious affairs, fear that allowing women to make such advances will erode their authority.

Tzipi Livni israeli Justice Minister has introduced legislation making the forced separation of men and women in public places like buses illegal. With regard to women praying at the Western Wall, a court has upheld the right of women to wear Prayer Shawls, and a proposal has also set aside a section of the Western Wall for the prayers of the genre.

Streisand says pleased to hear that there was hope of evolution. "Repairs are made, and that's very good," he said.

Earlier in the day, the actor met with 20 children with diseases that threaten the life of the "Make-A-Wish" Foundation. Streisand beamed as a teenager sang his song, "People".

"I'm going treasure this," he said. "Is so powerful that in a room with all of you and especially the children who touched my heart."

Streisand visited the University in one of the first stops of his trip to Israel since 1984, receiving a doctorate honoris causes

She spoke at length of his admiration for Israel and the Hebrew University, which opened a building named after his father in 1984 when she donated money for its construction.

"I think it would be very proud to know that this esteemed institution honoring his daughter", said.

It commended the University for graduating a number of female doctoral students record this year, the first time that women composed by a majority of degree recipients.

University officials call the Jewish singer and actor of "friend of Israel" and said that his honorary doctorate was "an opportunity to recognize your support, your friendship, your generosity".

Streisand tour has attracted the attention of the public and the media.

Arrival at Israel's Ben-Gurion Airport on Sunday, with her dog in tow, received prominent media coverage. Streisand, 71, will attend birthday number 90 of israeli President Shimon Peres later in the week before first appearing in it ever concert in Israel on Thursday and Saturday.

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