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Will Blanche, ‘The Newly Constructed Towers of the World Trade Center Seen From the South Side on West Street, May, 1973’ (via These Americans)

See also: Mitch Epstein, ‘West Side Highway, New York City’ [looking towards World Trade Center] 1977

wolfandfox: stendhal-syndrom: Christo and Jeanne-Claude...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:58:41 -0800

wolfandfox:

stendhal-syndrom:

Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Wrapped Trees, Fondation Beyeler and Berower Park,
Riehen, Switzerland 1997-98
Photo: Wolfgang Volz, ©Christo 199

skassaqatso: Portrait lithograph of Swedish playwright, writer...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:05:25 -0800

skassaqatso:

Portrait lithograph of Swedish playwright, writer and painter August Strindberg made by Edvard Munch in 1896, from the estate of Ingmar Bergman.

Martin Klasch: Art: Scandinavian Giants

nightmarebrunette: In Istanbul, grown men walk together with...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:19:17 -0800

nightmarebrunette:

In Istanbul, grown men walk together with their elbows linked. Schoolboys sit with a draped arm forgotten around the other’s shoulders. College students would ruffle one another’s hair. It was deeply affecting to be in the midst of a culture where men were allowed to touch one another in a way that was not sexual and not violent but simply fraternal.

jonathanclassof99: blatino: Buddies.

claytoncubitt: John Dickie, gold and silver...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:24:49 -0800

claytoncubitt:

John Dickie, gold and silver Versace-logo-encrusted Mexican druglord pistol, Mexico City, via Planet Magazine

See also: the guns from ‘Romeo and Juliet’

pensierispettinati: Mickey Maus (from Popgun vol. 3) by Erik...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:24:10 -0800

pensierispettinati:

Mickey Maus (from Popgun vol. 3) by Erik Larsen (via apocalypsechic) (via edt)

picapixels: spx808: Kate MacDowell - “venus”

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:14:20 -0800

picapixels:

spx808:

Kate MacDowell - “venus”

picapixels: spx808: Kate MacDowell - “casualty”

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:13:59 -0800

picapixels:

spx808:

Kate MacDowell - “casualty”

cajunboy: Nite and Day by Al B. Sure The first concert I ever...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:13:36 -0800

cajunboy:

Nite and Day by Al B. Sure

The first concert I ever attended was a New Edition/Bobby Brown/Al B. Sure triple feature in the Superdome. Earlier tonight I found myself thinking, “I wonder what happened to Al B. Sure.” Turns out her just released his first new record in over a decade and is dating one of the broads from Real Housewives of Atlanta. Go figure.

"alle volte uno si crede incompleto ed è soltanto giovane."

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:07:03 -0800

“alle volte uno si crede incompleto ed è soltanto giovane.” - italo calvino, da “il...

kateoplis: Artist Jean-Claude dies at 74 She met her partner...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:59:53 -0800

kateoplis:

Artist Jean-Claude dies at 74

She met her partner Christo in Paris in 1958. They have been collaborating for 51 years.

The family statement said Christo was deeply saddened by his wife’s death but was “committed to honor the promise they made to each other many years ago: that the art of Christo and Jeanne-Claude would continue.” That includes completing their current installation, “Over The River”, a series of fabric panels to be suspended over the Arkansas River in Colorado, and “The Mastaba,” a stack of 410,000 oil barrels configured as a mastaba, or rectangle with outward-sloping sides, envisioned for the United Arab Emirates.

Like all their projects, these are intended to be temporary, a quality at the heart of the artistic enterprise. Whether executed in oil drum or brightly colored fabric, the art of her and her husband, Jeanne-Claude said, expressed “ the quality of love and tenderness that we human beings have for what does not last.”

NYT