Posts tagged with “art”

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Posted 6 days ago
Cy Twombly, (Untitled) Scenes from an ideal marriage Oil stick, oil and watercolour on paper (via artnet Galleries - Galerie Karsten Greve AG, St. Moritz) Zoom

Cy Twombly, (Untitled) Scenes from an ideal marriage

Oil stick, oil and watercolour on paper

(via artnet Galleries - Galerie Karsten Greve AG, St. Moritz)

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Quote Post 12
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Posted 3 weeks ago
Art, especially the theatre, is a realm you cannot enter without the odd stumble. There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments, but you have to be prepared for that, you have to expect it and be resolute and follow your own path.
Anton Chekhov, letter to Olga Knipper
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Posted 3 months ago
Cover for Nick Cave’s Complete Lyrics 1978-2013 (out September) from Brooklyn tattoo artist Duke Riley. ‘Hopefully it captures the beauty laced with darkness that is so much a part of Nick Cave’s lyrics. The image is actually based on several different memorials for sailors lost at sea. Some are from New England, around the area where I grew up. I listened exclusively to Nick Cave albums the entire time I was working on it and tried to sneak references to lyrics in where I could’ via Penguin Books UK Art Department on Pinterest Zoom

Cover for Nick Cave’s Complete Lyrics 1978-2013 (out September) from Brooklyn tattoo artist Duke Riley.

‘Hopefully it captures the beauty laced with darkness that is so much a part of Nick Cave’s lyrics. The image is actually based on several different memorials for sailors lost at sea. Some are from New England, around the area where I grew up. I listened exclusively to Nick Cave albums the entire time I was working on it and tried to sneak references to lyrics in where I could’

via Penguin Books UK Art Department on Pinterest

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Photo Post 13
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Posted 3 months ago
Reykjavík print by ybryksenkova on Etsy Zoom

Reykjavík print by ybryksenkova on Etsy

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Photo Post 186
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Posted 4 months ago
areyousayingyes: Kintsukuroi; Japanese art of repairing with gold or silver lacquer and understanding that the piece is more beautiful for having been broken. Zoom

areyousayingyes:

Kintsukuroi; Japanese art of repairing with gold or silver lacquer and understanding that the piece is more beautiful for having been broken.

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Photo Post 260
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Posted 4 months ago
firstofficial: Poems to the Sea by Cy Twombly I-IV 1959 “He visualises with loving colours the silent space that exists between and around words.”       - John Berger Zoom

firstofficial:

Poems to the Sea by Cy Twombly I-IV 1959

“He visualises with loving colours the silent space that exists between and around words.”

      - John Berger

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Photo Post 84
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Posted 5 months ago
It’s World AIDS Day. See what you can do.  [image: Keith Haring, “Ignorance=Fear” (1989)] Zoom

It’s World AIDS Day. See what you can do. 

[image: Keith Haring, “Ignorance=Fear” (1989)]

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Posted 5 months ago

Frankfurt-am-Main (2012), expired Polaroid film

Photographs by Umberto Pettazzoni -  check out Umberto’s exhibition of dry colour prints/pinhole photographs kicking off tomorrow at Circolo Arci Belleville Genova, Italy.

Here’s the stuff in Italian:

15BLUEs - Polaroid di Umberto Pettazzoni (a cura di Elisa Brivio). 15 blues perché sono 15 e il blu è la tonalità delle polaroid scadute. Non sono immagini, o meglio, non solo. Sono prima di tutto oggetti che restituiscono occasioni, ambienti, sensazioni. Oggetti, e come tali vengono restituiti: inscatolati. Hanno un peso, un volume, una consistenza che è propria della materia. Hanno l’immediatezza del digitale, e al contempo l’irripetibilità antica del dagherrotipo, unicum positivo e negativo al tempo stesso. Tangibile, fragile. E poi sono sguardi che s’appoggiano sulle cose, visioni evanescenti, malinconiche, non tristi: blues, appunto. E ancora, sono pensieri buttati giù direttamente in bella. Prove di nulla. Estemporanee fini a se stesse, appunti visivi che si muovono fra Milano e Francoforte, passando per altri luoghi, non precisati, perché il diario appartiene al viaggio, ma anche al quotidiano. Il risultato è uno scrapbook capace di raccontare, con discrezione, l’intimità di tempi e luoghi inanimati.

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Photo Post 12
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Posted 6 months ago
This afternoon I took my friend Sav to the Whitechapel Gallery to see the wonderful installation by Giuseppe Penone, and we also stumbled into this Mel Bochner exhibition. (Photo by sav_) Zoom

This afternoon I took my friend Sav to the Whitechapel Gallery to see the wonderful installation by Giuseppe Penone, and we also stumbled into this Mel Bochner exhibition. (Photo by sav_)

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Photo Post 336
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Posted 6 months ago
hyperallergic: Piecing America Together While a minority of American are in a post-election meltdown over the browning of America, I feel compelled to admit that the part of America that is in a constant state of flux, always shifting, moving, changing, and accepting of the fact that the only things that unite Americans are a few ideas, is what I love about this place. To be American is to be dynamic, maybe even volatile, but never staid. Looking back, to borrow a Biblical allegory, is to turn into salt. I don’t think it’s an accident that the winning Presidential candidate’s slogan this year was “Forward” — that’s the direction we expect from America, even if we’re chronically disappointed. Sara Rahbar’s Flag series captures some of the energy I love about America. Zoom

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Piecing America Together

While a minority of American are in a post-election meltdown over the browning of America, I feel compelled to admit that the part of America that is in a constant state of flux, always shifting, moving, changing, and accepting of the fact that the only things that unite Americans are a few ideas, is what I love about this place. To be American is to be dynamic, maybe even volatile, but never staid. Looking back, to borrow a Biblical allegory, is to turn into salt. I don’t think it’s an accident that the winning Presidential candidate’s slogan this year was “Forward” — that’s the direction we expect from America, even if we’re chronically disappointed. Sara Rahbar’s Flag series captures some of the energy I love about America.

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