One of my favorite visual artists, Xaviera Simmons had her 2009 photograph "Untitled (Pink)" included in Mickalene Thomas' Tête-à-Tête show at Yancey Richardson this summer. The show focused on images of the black body, and Simmons' photograph is a beautiful, powerfully sensual photo that reminds me of Walerian Borowçzyk's bizarre 1975 Fench sex film The Beast, which previously found its way across my nightstand.
