up like toast

more tantric love

2012-01-26T21:52:00.000-08:00

Feature Inc: Anonymous Tantra Paintings

pj harvey

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elizabeth tubergen

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Kiki Smith Porcelain

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hair...

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via:365blanc

RIP Etta James

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NYTimes link

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Quality Goods for Monsters since 1818

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Hoxton Street Monster Supplies.

Yoko Ono’s “Voice Piece for Soprano”

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Derek Lam

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the black keys: lonely boy

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Pink Bardot

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via: conversation on cool

Wes Anderson's 'Moonrise Kingdom'

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Kathryn Clark Quilts

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Diane Arbus Printed Retrospective Install

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Julianna Swaney, Wolfgirl

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legs: bourgeois and joyce

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via: velveteen

Backstage at Alexander McQueen

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Revolution-Era Russian Theater.

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The Blue Bird (French: L'Oiseau bleu) is a play by Belgian author Maurice Maeterlinck. It premiered on 30 September 1908 at Constantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre and has been turned into several films and a TV series. The French composer Albert Wolff wrote an opera (first performed at the N.Y. Metropolitan in 1919) based on Maeterlinck's original play.

The story is about a girl called Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl seeking happiness, represented by The Blue Bird of Happiness, aided by the good fairy Bérylune.
Via:coilhouse

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Via: vineet kaur

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Joshua Bell, playing incognito in the D.C. Metro Station, organized by the Washington Post

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"In Washington DC , at a Metro Station, on a cold January morning in 2007, a man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, approximately 2000 people went through the station, most of them on their way to work. After about four minutes, a middle-aged man noticed that there was a musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds, and then he hurried on to meet his schedule. About four minutes later, the violinist received his first dollar. A woman threw money in the hat and, without stopping, continued to walk. At six minutes, a young man leaned against the wall to listen to him, then looked at his watch and started to walk again. At ten minutes, a three-year old boy stopped, but his mother tugged him along hurriedly. The kid stopped to look at the violinist again, but the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk, turning his head the whole time. This action was repeated by several other children, but every parent - without exception - forced their children to move on quickly. At forty-five minutes: The musician played continuously. Only six people stopped and listened for a short while. About twenty gave money but continued to walk at their normal pace. The man collected a total of $32. After one hour: He finished playing and silence took over. No one noticed and no one applauded. There was no recognition at all. No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the greatest musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, with a violin worth $3.5 million dollars. Two days before, Joshua Bell sold-out a theater in Boston where the seats averaged $100 each to sit and listen to him play the same music. This is a true story. Joshua Bell, playing incognito in the D.C. Metro Station, was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste and people’s priorities. This experiment raised several questions: In a common-place environment, at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty? If so, do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize talent in an unexpected context? One possible conclusion reached from this experiment could be this: If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world, playing some of the finest music ever written, with one of the most beautiful instruments ever made… How many other things are we missing as we rush through life?"

Yohji+Yamamoto+Spring 2012

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Happy New Year!

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RIP Eva Zeisel

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Eva Zeisel, a ceramic artist whose elegant, eccentric designs for dinnerware in the 1940s and ’50s helped to revolutionize the way Americans set their tables, died on Friday in New City, N.Y. She was 105. An amazing life and career. She was a favorite of mine. Read more of her NYTimes obituary here...

Favorite new read...

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ashleyrosehelvey
Here are some of the reasons:

dog

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JUAN RAYOS

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more...

A fashion revolutionary Chanel

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A fashion revolutionary of the more distant past was also on the tip of everyone’s tongue this year, thanks to a host of dueling biographies discussing Coco Chanel’s high-profile love affairs and wartime activities. But Jerome Gautier’s Chanel: A Vocabulary of Style (Yale) focuses exclusively on her enduring influence, captured in classic images by Richard Avedon and Patrick Demarchelier, as well as thoughtful juxtapositions of old (Cecil Beaton’s iconic portrait of Chanel) and new (a Karl Lagerfeld–clad Cate Blanchett).

Paul Lee, Untitled (painting on rock), 2011

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Giulietta Pre-Fall 2012

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Piled-Up: Q&A With Allison Schulnik by New American Paintings

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Read the Q&A here.

Shearer 1971

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Vases and cup

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Japancakes directed by Ryan Berg!

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Behind The Mountains by Japancakes from Ryan Berg on Vimeo.

Maria Fernanda Cardoso: Emu Wear

2011-12-02T05:11:00.000-08:00

via: grantpirrie

2011-12-01T11:27:00.001-08:00

Oh my gosh Alexander McQueen!

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Really could I love this any more...Alexander McQueen Spring 2012.

Barnburners if I ever saw them! Thanks Maia for the heads up.

John Waters

2011-11-30T14:09:00.000-08:00

Reading this:

Just read this:
Still Waters, Director John Waters discusses staying in Baltimore, becoming a capitalist, and The Wire

Nabokov’s Legacy: Butterfly Theory

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See more at brainpickings

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Similar but Different

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Paloma Varga Weisz

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via: sadie coles

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Francesca Woodman

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via: daily serving

vanessa grimes

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some more most

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Harper’s Bazaar UK. via Fashion Gone Rogue

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Martha Graham

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Grayson Perry

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Avant-garde ballet

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Triadisches Ballet / Triadic Ballet by Oskar Schlemmer from Paulo Henrique on Vimeo.

Comme des Garçons A/W 2009-10

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(via Vogue UK )

On to the next one.

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via: habitblog

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via: minimal me

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David Foster Wallace

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“In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that  locates and applies CPR to those elements of what's human and magical  that still live and glow despite the times' darkness. Really good  fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way  both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being  alive and human in it.”     

Jane Austin's Fight Club

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Jane Austen's Fight Club from Keith Paugh on Vimeo.

Gundi Dietz

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17th century modernism?

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"The purer the consciousness, the bluer and clearer the sky." 17th c Tantric painting

More in the New York Times article... about this book that I want: A collection of rare, abstract Tantric painting originates in French poet Franck André Jamme’s journey to India twenty-five years ago when he first searched in vain for the source of these intensely beautiful and concise works.

The art van damme quintette

2011-11-09T20:52:00.001-08:00

Mary and Max

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I think I'm this movie. Mary and Max.

Nan Na Hvass

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RIP Smokin' Joe

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Joe Frazier, left, and Muhammad Ali fighting at Madison Square Garden in March 1971 in an extravaganza known as the Fight of the Century. See more photos of Smokin' Joe Frazier in our "Looking Back at the Life of a Boxing Great" slideshow: http://nyti.ms/uAMAjW (Credit: The New York Times)

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via: Dirty Pretty Things

Birds on the brain repost

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Céleste Boursier-Mougenot at Barbican Centre, London

And my glasstire similar but different: birds from June 2010

Ana Mendieta

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I wish I could afford this book...

Birdy

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Ana Mendieta: Tate Modern

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I want this book. Here is a link to the Tate exhibition.

Murmuration: a collection of starlings

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Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.

Allison Schulnik video

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Mound by Allison Schulnik from garaco taco on Vimeo.

The Difference A Hand Makes (NPR)

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David Wojnarowicz, "Untitled (Face in Dirt)" c. 1990

"I am shouting my invisible words. I am getting so weary. I am growing tired. I am waving to you here. I am crawling around looking for the aperture of complete and final emptiness. I am vibrating in isolation among you. I am screaming but it comes out like pieces of clear ice. I am signaling that the volume of all this is too high. I am waving. I am waving my hands. I am disappearing. I am disappearing but not fast enough." David Wojnarowicz

Read more on NPR about two artists, both of whom died in their 30s, offer starkly different perspectives on their impending deaths.

Paper moons

2011-11-02T20:36:00.000-07:00

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Me on the hot seat...

2011-11-02T11:58:00.000-07:00

Talking about my process from part 4 on...

Network "I'm Mad as Hell..."

2011-11-01T10:32:00.001-07:00

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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Happy Halloween!

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Elizabeth Taylor!

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Studio detail...

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Mourning Brooches

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yohji yamamoto
christina for 10 (2008)
photography sarah moon
future beauty: 30 years of japanese fashion
via: cotonblanc

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fall–winter 2000–2001, undercoverism
future beauty: 30 years of japanese fashion via: cotonblanc

Colour photographs of circus performers, 1940s-1950s

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See more here.

Queer State(s) Symposium saturday at UT's VAC

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This symposium brings together scholars and critics to discuss a variety of themes connected to the exhibition Queer State(s). Participants from the UT community include Lisa Moore, Associate Professor of English; Ixchel Rosal, Director of the Gender and Sexuality Center; Risa Puleo, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Blanton Museum of Art; and Andy Campbell and Chelsea Weathers, both PhD candidates in Art History. In addition, other participants will include Nathan Lee, an independent curator and critic from New York, Leah Devun, a Faculty Fellow at Stanford University and an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University, and Jonathan D. Katz, director of the Doctoral Program in Visual Studies at the University at Buffalo and co-founder of the activist group Queer Nation, San Francisco and the Queer Caucus of the College Art Association. Click here for official schedule.

Did I thank you? I probably did...

2011-10-19T06:58:00.001-07:00

Vivre Sa Vie - Nana's Dance - Ana Karina

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