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Furkey

Patchwork Fur Key Ring

The Row key chain tail is made of thick, bucky fox fur dyed in multi-colored stripes.

 

Was European Cave Art the Earliest Form of Cinema?

Some cave paintings dating as far back as 30,000 years may have been man’s earliest entertainment. French archaeologist and filmmaker Marc Azéma has spent 20 years studying movement in animal cave paintings in France and Spain and he’s concluded that the images were designed to be looked at sequentially, much like a cartoon or film.

via: PRI's The World

American Mug

 

For Ohio Pottery, a small revival.

 

"Color Jam"

Jessica Stockholder's “Color Jam,” begins a summer-long occupation of an intersection in the Loop in downtown Chicago.

By wrapping the four corners of State and Adams Streets (and parts of buildings there) in swaths of burnt orange, lime green and turquoise — think of Christo meets Hans Hofmann — she deconstructs this slice of the business-as-usual world and transforms it into a playful and imaginative realm.

via: NYT

Edward Burtynsky, Highway #1, Intersection 105 & 110, Los Angeles, California, USA, 2003

Edward Burtynsky: Oil, an original exhibition featuring more than 50 large-¬scale color landscapes by Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky will be on view at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, Nevada, June 9 through September 23, 2012.

The exhibition surveys a decade of photographic imagery exploring the subject of oil, chronicling the “life cycle” of this major energy resource, one that has profoundly shaped the modern world. 


via: artdaily.com

Pablo and Françoise

Life was sweet for Picasso during his 10 years of romance and cohabitation with Françoise Gilot, from 1943 to 1953. Or so it would seem, judging by “Picasso and Françoise Gilot: Paris-Vallauris, 1943-1953,” a wonderful exhibition at Gagosian Gallery.

The Picasso of these years — he was in his 60s and early 70s — seems to revel in the joys of family and domesticity. Gone are the moonstruck years with Marie-Thérèse Walter and the violently conflicted ones with Dora Maar.

The crazy-old-man last act is yet to come. Looking at pictures here of his young children Claude and Paloma at play, you can imagine yourself seeing through the eyes of a loving, benevolent father — who just happens to be the most inventive artist of the 20th century.

via: NYT

Fingered

via: pas un autre

Look Out

Taryn Simon

 

Couch Cover

villasana, plasencia, et al

via: designboom

"This woman was the queen of disco and so much more. Her records sound as good today as they ever did." ~ Elton John

Donna Summer

1948-2012

Children in Art History

Great mix of chidren depicted throughout art history at:

I Am A Child

Maurice Sendak RIP

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Not for Amateurs..

The Christian Louboutin Exhibition at the Design Museum, London

via: purple diary

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Look-See

The Learning to See series by Peter Jenny, recently released from Princeton Architectural Press, is a series of art books filled with elegantly simple exercises. These books are pocket-sized, perfectly fitting into your bag.

The exercises, simple and elegant – such as finding patterns in the palm of your hand or drawing what you hear – are designed precisely to make you acutely aware of the world around you, to see patterns, shapes, light and dark. These books are deceptive in their simplicity, because the mere act of drawing what you hear or deconstructing an object into its elemental shapes gives you the space to focus on perception and imagination – to hone your artist’s eye. The author puts it best:

“This little book aims to open your eyes to the incidental, to the suggestions of images in everyday objects, to the beauty in the ordinary.”

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Say Cheese

Cheese Portraits

via: observando

 

'Incurable Romantic Seeks Dirty Filthy Whore'

Harland Miller

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

~ Ivan Turgenev

Blake's Easter Egg

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Because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, "Abba, Father." —Galatians 4:6

Luca Signorelli

The Crucifixion with St. Mary Magdalen
c. 1500
Oil on canvas

Uffizi, Florence

Exceptional Color

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Hanging by a Thread

Date: 18th–19th century

European

Textiles-Trimmings

Rogers Fund, 1908

Metropolitan Museum of Art

"The past is gone, the future is not here, now I'm free of both."

Deepak Chopra

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Simple Surface

The Dyvel Table consists of two parallel glass surfaces held in tension by four wooden legs.

Shutter

In the past we listened to photographs. They heard our voice speak.   

Alive, active. What had been distance was memory.    Dusk came,

Pushed us forward,   emptying the laboratory   each night undisturbed by   

Erasure.

 

      In the city of X, they lived together. Always morose, her lips

soothed him. The piano was arranged in the old manner, light entered the   

window, street lamps at the single tree.

 

      Emotion evoked by a single light on a subject is not transferable to   

photographs of the improved city. The camera, once

commented freely amid rivering and lost gutters of treeless parks or avenue.   

The old camera refused to penetrate the unknown. Its heart was soft,   

unreliable.

 

      Now distributed is photography of new government building. We are   

forbidden to observe despair silent in old photographs.

Photographs

Barbara Guest

Drawing: Sanya Kantarovsky

 

Heart Care

yayo

 

'Photography in Mexico'

Photography in Mexico, an exhibition that will feature more than one hundred and fifty works spanning nearly a century, opened in early March at SFMoMA.

From Lourdes Grobet’s examinations of lucha libre to Edward Weston and Tina Modotti’s portraits of a country forming on the heels of a revolution, the exhibition features the work of photographers who have claimed Mexico as home and those who have found inspiration there over the years.

'You Will Hear Thunder'

Anna Akhmatova