Wow.
good:
This is not a fluffy mass of cotton strung up in a room. It’s an actual, man-made cloud.
That’s not photoshop; that’s an actual cloud hovering inside an actual room. Artist Berndnaut Smilde merges art and science to create small man-made clouds that exist — albeit for just a moment — indoors.
(via singularitarian)
(via poptech)
Duuuuuuuuuude.
I miss Antigua.
This message brought to you by my childhood.
nypl:
Thank you Jan Berenstain for 50 years of children’s literature! In honor of the great author who passed away last week, today’s flashback Friday honors our collective childhood memories with one of our favorite Berenstain Bears books, Big Bear, Small Bear.
You will be missed Mother Bear!
Equally late to the game. Equally happy to share.
Always makes me a little annoyed when you find out your so late to the game, but this is a must post. So before I’m the 65th million person to view this, check out me homeland friends @WalkOFTheEarth playing @gotye’s - Somebody That I Used to know.
So incredilbly talented and amazing to see 5 people use one guitar to make the sounds of 5 different instruments.
How very TED-like. I support this.
Instead of giving its annual award to one person, TED announced that it will be giving small grants to 10 user-submitted projects on the city of the future.
Wow, I wonder where this collection will go? Huge restitution issues lie within.
Look inside Adolf Hitler’s secret art collection unearthed in a Czech convent
During the Second World War Hitler moved some of his extensive art collection, rumoured to have contained more than 5,000 pieces, out of Germany to avoid damage from Allied bomb attacks.
Last week, 16 pieces resurfaced in a Czech convent and now they are being seen for the first time since Hitler bought them in the mid 1940s. (Photos: Petr Josek/Reuters)
In honor of CaveToCanvas‘ superb selection of Philip Guston for “Artist of the Day”, here is his “Artist, In His Studio” from 1969.
“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”
— John Augustus Shedd, an American author and professor. In 1928 he wrote “Salt from My Attic”.
by Alain de Botton
Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth Sculptures
LADY ALMINA AND THE REAL DOWNTON ABBEY
So sad to miss this, but the line’s too long for a work day visit.
Doug Wheeler, David Zwirner Gallery
View of the amazing installation up at David Zwirner until February 25th, which is the first time Wheeler has created an “infinity environment” in New York.
The Art Newspaper reports that nonprofit organization Word Above the Street has signed up a bevy of artists for a 12-week project to transform 300 of New York’s water towers into public artworks. Ed Ruscha, Lawrence Weiner, Marilyn Minter, E.V. Day, Tony Conrad, Andy Goldsworthy and Tony Oursler, as well as musicians Jay-Z and Thom Yorke are just some of the artists on board with the aptly named Water Tank Project, an effort to increase public awareness of the need to conserve water.
There’s a call for artists too. Seems like a great opportunity for Artists on Tumblr to make their impact on the city’s architecture.
Though the full roster of artists is quite impressive, the project is not only open to established artists. The website has posted an open call to “all artists regardless of age, experience, sex, race, color, or national origin” and plans a school competition so some young artists will get the chance to express themselves across New York City’s skyline.
Anh Duong, Urgency of the Worst, Oil on canvas, 2009
“To me it’s more about dressing up than the fashion. The fantasy.”
