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Couch Cover

villasana, plasencia, et al

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"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

The Letter

 

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Children in Art History

Great mix of chidren depicted throughout art history at:

I Am A Child

Snap Shots

Maurice Sendak RIP

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The Christian Louboutin Exhibition at the Design Museum, London

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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

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'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

"Textiles belong to a technical, highly specialized world—one that’s not nearly as appreciated, by institutions or by the general public, as it should be."

Seth Siegelaub on collecting textiles in the March issue of Artforum.

Francesca Woodman at Guggenheim

Francesca Woodman is the first comprehensive survey of the artist’s brief but extraordinary career to be seen in North America. More than thirty years after her death, the moment is ripe for a historical reconsideration of her work and its reception. 

Born in 1958 into a family of artists, Woodman began photographing at the age of 13. By the time she enrolled at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 1975, she was already an accomplished artist with a remarkably mature and focused approach to her work. During her time at RISD, she spent a year in Rome, which proved an enormously fertile source of inspiration.

After completing her degree, she moved to New York, where she made several large-scale personal projects and experimented with fashion photography. In 1981, at the age of 22, she committed suicide. Woodman’s untimely death is underscored by the startlingly compelling, complex, and artistically resolved body of work she produced during her short lifetime. Spanning the breadth of Woodman’s oeuvre, this presentation includes more than 120 vintage photographs, ranging from her earliest student experiments to her late, large-scale blueprint studies of caryatid-like figures for the ambitious Temple project (1980).

The exhibition includes two of her artist books, which were an important form of expression, particularly at the end of her career. Woodman also experimented with moving images; six of her recently discovered and rarely seen short videos are presented in the exhibition.

Eat green

moss

'Does Morality Have a Place on Wall Street?'

 

In his resignation from Goldman Sachs that appeared as a Times Op-Ed this week,

Greg Smith spoke of a culture of greed and excess at the investment bank in which the goal is to “rip-off” clients. Does morality have a place on Wall Street? Was Smith being naïve to think that what he saw was anything other than business as usual?

 

"Christ was the greatest of all artists."  

Vincent van Gogh  

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'Vase with flowers in a window'

artist: Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder

c.1618

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'The Place We Live'

LACMA

How did The Great Wave become one of the most famous images in the world?

When Hokusai's The Great Wave was first issued, in about 1830, Japan's contact with the outside world was strictly regulated. It was only in 1859 when Japan, under pressure from America and other powers, opened a few of its ports that Japanese prints began to be exported to Europe. They were quickly discovered and celebrated by European and American artists like Whistler, Van Gogh and Monet. The Great Wave inspired Debussy's symphonic sketches La Mer and has become one of the most iconic images of the power of the sea.

The excellent commentary on Hokusai's "The Great Wave" can be found at:

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