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Beautiful progress pics of a Becca Tuohey print

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Beth Jacob Synagog in Baltimore, Maryland. 

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One of my favorite professors

No More Distractions: Jeff Gibson and Rune Olsen

Rune: “With two artists living together, there’s support and jealousy. I think we influence each other—in the way we talk about art, the way we think about it—but our visual language is pretty radically different. Both of us want the best for each other, but I feel that jealousy is a relatively good emotion. If you don’t care, it would be horrible, but jealousy indicates that there are a lot of feelings. And I like that—a lot of feeling.”

[The Complete Love Issue]

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Alejandro Cartagena captured Mexican workers on their way to job sites in Car Poolers. This is such an amazing and simple photo series. 

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Emmet Kierans, Rolling Lawn, oil on canvas, 145 x 128 cm, 2010, courtesy of ABSOLUT Network

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Doris Salcedo, Installation at 8th International Istanbul Biennial, 2003

Salcedo's created a "topography of war"--She alludes to war and the effects of war in general. The artist stacks 1,550 wooden chairs between two buildings in central Istanbul.  This work entices memories of barricades, violence, casualties, and mass graves.  

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Xu Bing — Tian Shu (Book from the Sky), 1987-1991

Tian Shu is comprised of a display of books spread in a large rectangle across the ground, above which voluptuous scrolls unroll in long, pregnant arcs. The books—four hundred of them—are handmade with reverential adherence to the standards of traditional Ming dynasty fonts, bookbinding, typesetting and stringing techniques. 

To make them, Xu painstakingly carved Chinese characters into square woodblocks, in just the way his ancient printing predecessors would have done, had them typeset and printed, and the printed pages mounted and bound into books and scrolls.

Yet, there’s the astonishing, Borgesian catch: out of the three or four thousand Chinese characters used in these volumes and scrolls, not a single one of them is a real Chinese character. They are made up of recognizable radicals and typical atomic components of Chinese characters, but Xu laboured to ensure that while they all retain the unmistakable look of Chinese script, they are all, so to speak, nonsense. They do not exist in any dictionary, and do not mean anything. Chinese speakers and non-Chinese speakers alike approach the books with the same sense of wonder at their beauty, and the same sense of incomprehension at their content. It’s a piece of art whose meaning is to be found in its meaninglessness. (via)

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Zoran Music We Are Not the Last

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Tokujin Yoshioka In this work, the crystals have been exposed to the music from Tchaikovsky’s ballet, Swan Lake, for 6 months. The tonal vibrations and pulsations materialize within the crystal, dictating its final form.

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Amy Sillman if i were ever sexually attracted to a color, it would be that beigey green  SO GOOD

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study for a portrait.

5x6” oil on board

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michael carson

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Happy belated birthday de Kooning!

Happy Birthday, Willem de Kooning (April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997)

Frederick Kiesler and Willem de Kooning, New York, May 4, 1960, printed June 1982, Irving Penn

via Art Institute of Chicago

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Jo Nigoghossian, Exhibition Apr. 21 - May. 26 at the Renwick Gallery