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Andre Breton was a collector after my own heart. (via Collection...

Sun, 12 May 2013 18:31:00 -0400

Andre Breton was a collector after my own heart.

Nikola Tesla’s exhibition of neon lights at the...

Sun, 05 May 2013 11:53:31 -0400

Nikola Tesla’s exhibition of neon lights at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 (via The Foundation For Nikola Tesla)

I Want To Be A Gentleman by Lu Chunsheng, 2000

Fri, 03 May 2013 14:37:13 -0400

I Want To Be A Gentleman by Lu Chunsheng, 2000

Philip Morris Research Center Tower, Ulrich Franzen, Richmond,...

Wed, 01 May 2013 01:17:56 -0400

Philip Morris Research Center Tower, Ulrich Franzen, Richmond, VA, 1972

Photo by Ezra Stoller

(via Yossi Milo Gallery - Artists - Ezra Stoller)

Room 235 by Mario Wagner, 2007 Collage and acrylic on canvas.

Wed, 01 May 2013 00:33:40 -0400

Room 235 by Mario Wagner, 2007

Collage and acrylic on canvas.

Monument To Aviation by Raimund Abraham, 1979 (via Archaeology...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:02:36 -0400

Monument To Aviation by Raimund Abraham, 1979

(via Archaeology of the Future: 1979 VISIONARY Aviation Memorial Competition Melbourne [Raimund Abraham])

MENS SUITS by Charles LeDray, 2006-2010 (via Institute of...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:48:00 -0400

MENS SUITS by Charles LeDray, 2006-2010

(via Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Exhibits Installation of Charles LeDray | ARTES MAGAZINE)

Come Together by Charles LeDray, 1995-96 Fabric, thread,...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:45:32 -0400

Come Together by Charles LeDray, 1995-96

Fabric, thread, embroidery floss, and steel.

34.5” x 26” x 6.5”

(via SFMOMA | Explore Modern Art | Our Collection | Charles LeDray | Come Together)

Photographer Martin Schoeller photographed the Pirahã, a remote...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 01:41:17 -0400

Photographer Martin Schoeller photographed the Pirahã, a remote Amazonian tribe in Brazil for The New Yorker magazine in 2007

aroundthemountain: BGL’s Jeu en atelier or Game Workshop in...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:47:02 -0400

aroundthemountain:

BGL’s Jeu en atelier or Game Workshop in Reclaimed Wood

Edward Hopper at his Cape Cod home, with his wife Josephine in...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:04:29 -0400

Edward Hopper at his Cape Cod home, with his wife Josephine in the background, 1960

“That’s what we do…He sits in his spot and looks at the hills all day, and I look at the ocean, and when we meet there’s controversy, controversy, controversy.” Josephine Hopper, Edward Hopper’s wife.

[via Smithsonian Magazine - July 2007]

Sycamore Leaves and Thorns Installation by Andy...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 00:18:17 -0400

Sycamore Leaves and Thorns Installation by Andy Goldsworthy

California Residence by Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen and Terry Hunziker.

[via interior design magazine, december 2003]

Cy Twombly + Relics, Rome, No. 5 photo by Robert Rauschenberg,...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 22:42:00 -0400

Cy Twombly + Relics, Rome, No. 5 photo by Robert Rauschenberg, 1952

Sink by William Anastasi, 1970 rusted steel, 20” x...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 01:40:18 -0400

Sink by William Anastasi, 1970

rusted steel, 20” x 20”

“I was chatting with a scientist I’d just met at a party, and our conversation turned to the why and how of rust. I was told that iron ore from the mountain is all but useless, except maybe as a doorstop. It’s not malleable. But some forgotten discoverer learned that when heated to a sufficient intensity it liquified. Then if the surface was skimmed off, the remainder, when cooled off and solid again, behaved diffferently from the ore of its earlier state. It would now be wonderfullly malleable—we call it steel. But a marvelous thing about steel is that wherever it is, it wants to take from the moisture in the atmospher neither more nor less than the very elements that had been ealier skimmed away. The result of this struggle brings about the kind of corrosion we call rust. I thought it’s as though the steel has a memory and wants to go home. I said, “This is the most poetic thing I’ve ever heard of.” The next day I drove to a steel supplier in Brooklyn and brought back two plates of hot-rolled carbon steel. I leaned one against a wall and lay the other flat on the floor. I poured on it a couple of ounce s of tap water and watched. The dark blue surface begain to blister with the familiar off-red before my eyes. Within a few days I wrote a recipe so that anyone could repeat the operation: Set a rectangular piece of hot-rolled carbon steel level on a floor. Pour on it a measure of tap water so that the resulting pond holds its position short of overflow. Each time the water evaporates, repeat. I titled it Sink, for the verb, since the surface would be eaten away over the years.”

-William Anastasi from an interview he conducted with himself for Art on Paper magazine, May 10, 2007.

An outdoor sculpture exhibition in Orani, Italy of the work of...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:44:35 -0400

An outdoor sculpture exhibition in Orani, Italy of the work of Constantino Nivola featured in the exhibit Costantino Nivola. Ritorno a Itaca. Photograph by Carlo Bavagnoli,1958.

Wall Relief - Olivetti Showroom, NYC by Costantino Nivola, 1954

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:34:15 -0400

Wall Relief - Olivetti Showroom, NYC by Costantino Nivola, 1954

Large scale 3-D wall relief by Denis Morog for the Bibliothèque...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:02:15 -0400

Large scale 3-D wall relief by Denis Morog for the Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon (Lyon Municipal Library) (by Chimay Bleue)

Sleeping Seedpods, 2012 (by carriembecker)

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 23:57:36 -0400

Sleeping Seedpods, 2012 (by carriembecker)

Rona Pondick at Sonnabend Gallery, March 23-April 27, 2013 [via...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:20:25 -0400

Rona Pondick at Sonnabend Gallery, March 23-April 27, 2013

[via artforum]

I’ve always loved that moment before or after a big storm...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 22:51:00 -0400

I’ve always loved that moment before or after a big storm where dark clouds are in front of you, and the golden light of late afternoon or early evening is behind you. This picture captures it perfectly.

Route 66, Alburquerque, New Mexico 1969 by Ernst Haas

[photo via bruce silverstein]