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Rashid Johnson's White Girl: She's got the marks of her underwire bra and hundreds of years of visual consumption on her chest.

She's from Johnson's show at James Harris Gallery in 2007, and she's Manet's Olympia but reversed: Art nudes lie with their heads on the left, porn nudes show up the other way (or any way).

The racism in the original Manet is here, too, but also flipped. Instead of a black servant offering Olympia a bouquet of flowers (maybe from an admirer from the night before?), the artist here—Johnson—is black. He's making the image and titling it in his voice: However defiant the stare and hair of this model, she's also his.

Thanks, Boobquake.