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Glam! The Performance of Style Tate Liverpool: Exhibition 8...

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:53:45 -0500

Glam! The Performance of Style

Tate Liverpool: Exhibition

8 February – 12 May 2013

tamburina: Ellen von Unwerth

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:52:00 -0500

tamburina:

Ellen von Unwerth

Untitled by Jerry N. Uelsmann, 1934 Uelsmann revived the...

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:28:36 -0500

Untitled by Jerry N. Uelsmann, 1934

Uelsmann revived the technique of combination printing pioneered by such Victorian art photographers as Oscar Gustave Rejlander and Henry Peach Robinson in the early 1960s, when darkroom manipulation was denigrated by many proponents of straight photography as a flagrant violation of photographic purity. His pictures, which he creates in a darkroom equipped with seven enlargers, are filled with mind-bending paradoxes, oblique symbolism, and bizarre contrasts of scale.

part of Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, thru January 27, 2013

Here’s Looking At You, Kid

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:23:02 -0500

laphamsquarterly: Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That’s all we shall...

best of tumblr, fortunate chance

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 19:57:04 -0500

best of tumblr, fortunate chance: My BEST posts of 2012 13 notes 0 notes 5 notes 7 notes 37...

hollyhocksandtulips: L’Officiel, 1950

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:36:57 -0500

hollyhocksandtulips:

L’Officiel, 1950

Photo

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:26:56 -0500

Olympia / Paris

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:59:09 -0500

Olympia / Paris

at Le Philosophe (via)

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:54:13 -0500

at Le Philosophe (via)

Photo

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:22:39 -0500

New York, by George Bellows. 1911. Bellows generally preferred...

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 11:27:00 -0500

New York, by George Bellows. 1911.

Bellows generally preferred to paint Manhattan’s periphery. In this unusual composite view of a midtown business district, which pertains most closely to Madison Square, he presents the city as a place in constant flux. Packing the scene with skyscrapers, billboards, and chimneys spewing smoke; an elevated train station and tracks; horse-drawn carriages and motorcars snarled in traffic; and sidewalks filled with men and women of all economic backgrounds, he denies the viewer’s eye a resting place. New York’s modern tumult, with countless details of sight and sound crowding in on one another, was as new and impenetrable to Bellows as it was to any of his contemporaries.

theparisreview: From the bedroom you can seestraight to the...

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 11:15:54 -0500

theparisreview:

From the bedroom you can see
straight to the fringe of the woods
with a cross-staved gate to re–
enter childhood’s world:
                        the pines
wait, dripping.
                        Crumbling black–
berries, seized from a rack
of rusty leaves, maroon tents
of mushroom, pillars uprooting
with a dusty snap;
                        as the bucket
fills, a bird strikes from the bushes
and the cleats of your rubber boot crush a yellow snail’s shell to a smear
on the grass
                        (while the wind starts
the carrion smell of the dead fox
staked as warning).
                        Seeing your former
self saunter up the garden path
afterwards, would you flinch,
acknowledging
                        that sensuality,
that innocence?

—John Montague, “Return”
Art Credit Kisik Pyo

The Painting Le tableau | Jean-François Laguionie, 2011 A...

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 10:52:54 -0500

The Painting
Le tableau | Jean-François Laguionie, 2011

A touching, wonderfully inventive animated fable, The Painting is largely set within the borders of a canvas temporarily residing in the lush garden of an old chateau. In that canvas’s world uncomfortably co-exist three types of creatures: the fully drawn and colored Alldunns; the partially completed Halfies; and the Sketchies, which exist as only rough designs. The Alldunns lord it over the others, until one of their number, Ramo, starts to wonder if this is indeed the way things are meant to be—or if someday the others will be completed. Together with his beloved Claire (a Halfie, and thus off-limits for him), Ramo sets off to see if he can somehow contact that mysterious Painter who started all the trouble in the first place. Full of visual wit and sly humor, The Painting is a sheer delight for young people of all ages.

laphamsquarterly: One should always be drunk. That’s the...

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 21:16:35 -0500

laphamsquarterly:

One should always be drunk. That’s the great thing, the only question. Not to feel the horrible burden of Time weighing on your shoulders and bowing you to the earth, you should be drunk without respite. Drunk with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you please. But get drunk.

—Charles Baudelaire, c. 1867

HAPPY NEW YEAR’S EVE! NOW GET DRUNK.