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Paintings by Carol Prusa

thetaoofdana:

Anouk Kruithof

(4000 books!!!) 

(via strikingsun)

"Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing to be so little reached as with criticism. Only love can grasp and hold and fairly judge them.” [Rilke]. In my proud and humble opinion, those two sentences are worth all the soi-disant criticism of the arts which has ever existed or will ever exist."

E. E. Cummings, i: six nonlectures

utnereader:

Macoto Murayama’s first solo exhibition includes color soaked renditions of flower specimens alongside imaginative botanical diagrams, conflating the worlds of history, engineering, science, art, and digital design. (via Designboom)

Wow. Not only are these images stunning, but Murayama’s process is just incredible.

The Child Dreams 6
2011
mixed media (oil & acrylic) on canvas
94 1/2 x 172 inches

www.helnwein.com

Gottfried Helnwein continues to send shivers down my spine. The Child Dreams series is being exhibited at MODERNISM Gallery in SF. I need to find time to see it in person.

shinyslingback:

Lise Bjorne Linnert

www.lisebjorne.com

Desconocida Unknown, installation Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Philadelphia community art project, 5300 hand embroidered nametags in protest of murders of women Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
2006 - ongoing

From the artist’s website:

The situation in Ciudad Juarez gives a cruel picture of the dark side of globalization, corruption, and the in-balance between the people of power and money, and the huge population of poor, in desperate need of job. Ciudad Juarez is a typical city on the US/Mexican border “hosting” nearly 400 international factories, so called Maquilladoras or Sweat Shops. Companies such as General Electric, Sony, Nike, Gap, and many more, change their companies name when they cross the border to employ Mexican workers, in majority women, for a very low cost. They do not pay tax, neither to Mexico nor the US, enhancing their profit. The possibilities of jobs bring thousands of migrants to a city like Ciudad Juarez, hoping for a better future, living in shanty-towns and becoming a very easy target for crimes.