Thursday, May 31, 2018

Calvin and Hobbes


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Mindfulness


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Portraits of Brooding Birds by Josie Morway



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Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Georgia O’Keeffe’s Hawaii Paintings



If there is one place most commonly associated with Georgia O’Keeffe, it is New Mexico.
 The dusty landscapes and desert foliage inspired some of her most famous paintings.
 Less well known is O’Keeffe’s connection to Hawaii.
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The Man Who Invented Love


Born Robert Clark in New Castle, Indiana in 1928, the painter, sculptor and poet who would adopt the name Indiana—what he called his “nom de brush”—died on May 19, 2018 at the age of 89.
 He would become, as author and scholar Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, first noted, “the man who invented Love.” LOVE in all its iterations—translated by the artist into Spanish and Hebrew for sculptures; painted into an unprintable four-letter word after a falling out with Ellsworth Kelly; or repurposed in 2008 as HOPE in a print made as a fundraiser for Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign—is often shorthand for Indiana’s artistic output. Virginia Mecklenburg, chief curator of the Smithsonian American Art Museum notes that while Indiana was associated with Pop artists such as James Rosenquist, Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, he was different.
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Match game (tile detail) 2009


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This Sign




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Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Disparitions



French photographer Mathieu Bernard-Reymond’s images evoke a nostalgic sense of yearning. Whether the solitary subjects in ‘Disparitions’ are longing for a past or future, the viewer is to decide for themselves.

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Cuckoo Blocks


Guido Zimmermann reinterprets the iconic German cuckoo clock using examples of modern architecture.

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Things


Things stands poised as the singular sculpture in a new installation by Swiss artist Urs Fischer.

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Next Generation


Photo and Caption by Claudia Peyer / National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year Contest

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The Wall of Death



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Identity




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Just Gentle


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Monday, May 28, 2018

Lost Drawings



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The Great Mimicry


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The game of love and the photographer


Helena Almeida 
 In Marseille, an exhibition celebrates the art of loving through a panoply of works many of which are by photographers. Helena Almeida, Nan Goldin, Antoine d’Agata… so many artists who have made passionate love a playground.

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Ella Frances Sanders

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The New Yorker


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Should you trust your gut feelings?

It’s complicated. Because intuition relies on evolutionarily older, automatic and fast processing, it also falls prey to misguidances, such as cognitive biases. These are systematic errors in thinking, that can automatically occur. Despite this, familiarising yourself with common cognitive biases can help you spot them in future occasions.
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Sunday, May 27, 2018

The Dude Abides.



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Just hung in there.

Photograph: Noel Celis/AFP

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Strange sound gauge


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