bitchfaceart:

Bernardo Strozzi, The Annunciation

art21:

momaps1:

Check out this morning’s view of our James Turrell skyspace! A few clouds on the horizon but the forecast is looking great for an afternoon visit #meetingmonday

art21:

“Generally, we use light—we don’t really pay much attention to light itself. That’s my interest: this fascination with light and how we come to light.”
—James Turrell

Happy birthday today (May 6) to artist James Turrell.

Seen here is the The Light Inside (1999), commissioned by and installed at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The Light Inside is installed in the underground tunnel that links the museum’s Caroline Wiess Law Building with the Audrey Jones Beck Building.

This scene is featured in the Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 1 episode, Spirituality (2001).

WATCH James Turrell in Spirituality: Preview | Full Segment [available in the U.S. only]

IMAGES: Production stills from the Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 1 episode, Spirituality, 2001. © Art21, Inc. 2001.

blakegopnik:

DAILY PIC:  Two images care of the punk couture show that previewed today at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York – and that I just panned on TheDailyBeast.com. In that cranky review, however, I didn’t have room to mention that, among the talentless couturier copycats of punk who dominate the show, there are also a few designers, such as Rei Kawakubo  and Martin Margiela, who are genuine artistic geniuses. The thing is, I think that by including them the curators are guilty of that heinous sin that art historians call pseudomorphism: Imagining that because two artworks look the same, they also mean the same thing and play the same role in our culture. When  Sex Pistols drummer Paul Cook wore a Union Jack t-shirt in the late 1970s (left) his brash punk gesture meant something utterly different than when Rei Kawakubo, a Japanese intellectual, reworked the British flag (right) into runway fashion in 2006. Ditto for punk’s rebellious repurposing of junk and the Maison Martin Margiela’s thoughtful recycling of consumer goods in the fabulous Artisanal line it launched a few years ago. (Left, courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art, © Dennis Morris; right, courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art, photo by Catwalking)

For a full visual survey of past Daily Pics visit blakegopnik.com/archive. The Daily Pic can also be found at the bottom of the home page of thedailybeast.com, and on that site’s Art Beast page.

cavetocanvas:

Diane Arbus, Child with Toy Hand Grenade, 1962

cavetocanvas:

Andy Warhol, Gold Marilyn Monroe, 1962

Things to think about when studying:

• This is a silkscreen - why is this medium important to Warhol’s work?
• How does Warhol undermine the public’s perception of Marilyn?
• What does this work say about consumerism?

yourmothershouldknow:

Met Gala 2013

Cameron Diaz

movieposteroftheday:

Russian poster for TOPIEL / THE ABYSS (Wladyslaw Lenczewski, Poland, 1917)

Artist: Mikhail Kalmanson

Poster source: Russian Film Posters 1900-1930

For more pre-revolutionary Russian posters read Movie Poster of the Week at mubi.com.

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gladtoknowcha:

MOUNTAIN TINDAYA. Eduardo Chillida. 1996.

Project of a 50 x 50 x 50 meters space, carved from the center of a mountain.

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ngentile:

Proposed project of Eduardo Chillida to be excavated from The Montaña de Tindaya, a mountain located in the Spanish island of Fuerteventura, one of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa.

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thequeenofpinup:

Happy birthday to the queen!

I took some flowers and a balloon to Bettie’s grave today, I was happy to see that someone else had taken her flowers as well. Bettie would have been 90 years old today.

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deviatesinc:

Dusty Springfield, exhausted after a night’s show, waits for a taxi at the stage door, 1968

photo by Ian Berry

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pmplease:

#peter #peri #painting