VENUS

Michel Auder, Venus, 2009 Digital print 46.5 x 32.5 cm Ed. 3 + 1 AP

Heads

Petra Morenzi, Heads Bronze, app. 30 x 20 cm 2007

It Had To Be You

Triple Happiness 2006 30" x 24"oil on canvas on panel

Eric Wert

It Had To Be You 2006 24" x 18" oil on canvas on panel

Heart and Soul

Annette Messager exhibition at the Marian Goodman Gallery , Paris. A Sheer Beauty, and a poetic view on childhood.

Cœur au repos[Resting Heart], 2009 Fil de fer, filet [metal string, net] H43 x L100 x P17 cm Installation view

Et range ta chambre [And tidy your bedroom], 2007-2009 (detail)Various elements, cords, badges, B&W photos, drawings, skaï, nets, fabric, forged iron, iron string, rubbervariable dimensions

À corps perdu, 2008-2009 (detail)40 elements, B&W photo printed in parachute fabric, computerized motors, tulle nettingH. 160 x L. 950 X P. 560 cm

It is only through art

that we can escape from ourselves

and know how another person sees a universe

which is not the same as our own

and whose landscapes would otherwise have remained as unknown as

any there may be on the moon.

Marcel Proust

via moonbeams8

Thomas Huber, Vitrin, oil on canvas 2006

Israel

Matthew Picton, Israel, 1936, 1947-1967, 2007

2009

106" x 61" 4" duralar, enamel paint, pins

wall paper

by artist Rachel de Joode

detail view.

Rachel de Joode wall paper.

via we find wildness

Glory Scarfs

by Shane Sakkeus Jonathan Zawada Inspired by nature, science and mathematics. Each scarf is mathematically valid fractal, painstakingly created by entering a series of numbers and equations into a computer, creating a potentially infinite variety of form, colour and detail. This process means each individual scarf is based upon a completely unique equation and can never be replicated. As in nature.

via today and tomorrow

States of Union

Alix Smith at the Morgan Lehman Gallery

States of Union #5 30 x 40 in. Digital C-Print.

While portraiture has been used for centuries to memorialize the family lineage, these visual depictions have focused almost entirely on the heterosexual family unit. Gay families, with almost no history of depiction, do not have this same pronounced and illustrated legacy.

Made of America

while i was looking for inspirational ideas for a new books case for my new appartement, i stumbled upon the Ron arad's made of America book case.

Made of America: Bookcase Shaped Like the 50 States via 2leep

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Tauba Auerbach

50x38 inch, ink on paper, 2005

Bloody Wallpaper

Wallpaper / Samples 2003 blood on wallpaper 14"H x 11"W each

Laura Splan. 2008 blood on wallpaper 86"H x 96"W Wallpaper is hand block-printed wallpaper. The traditional pattern is printed using the artist’s own blood as ink.

Ultra violence land

Gabby Nathan and artist Camille Rose Garcia are both using narrative painting and symbolism, to depict the horrors of the modern world and depicts a sense of helplessness, like in those dreams where your feet are stuck in cement and you can't run. Both are using imaginary figures in side a twisted "wonderland".

Gabby Nathan "you are not your job" 2008, acrylic and markers on canvas, 175x130 cm

Camille Rose Garcia from Subterranean Death Clash series, 2006

The Balance

by korb.

via http://blog.buro-gds.com/

L'Espèces

"Vivre, c'est passer d'un espace à un autre, en essayant le plus possiblede ne pas se cogner."

Georges Perec

Ernst Haas - White Sands, New Mexico, USA, 1952

Roi Kuper. "Citrus", 1999-2001 (colorprints 126 x 126 cm. / 80 x 80 cm.)

We Are Here Sharing Our Dreaming

“Nganana Tjungurringanyi Tjukurrpa Nintinjakitja” (We Are Here Sharing Our Dreaming). Papunya Tula Artists, from Australia, who make breathtaking abstract expressions based on, but not bound by, tradition.

Anna Petyarre River Bed Country acrylic on canvas 150 x 120 cm

via nymag

Unica Zürn

via a journey round my skull

Nouns and Verbs

Arthur Gonzalez's work consiste of a synthesis of Ceramic and found objects.

Arthur Gonzalez , Ceramic, Mirror and Wire, 2004

water in water

water in water seriesm photography by Sema Bekirovic

Sema Bekirovic creates photographs, videos and installations which capture the friction created by the chances of nature and design of culture.In some works she plays with the tension between gaining and letting go of control; creating situations in which things can occur or happen spontaneously, and letting chance decide how the work will develop. via nextnature

In My Mind

painting by Glenn Ligon

certain kind of sensation

"These drawings are executed purely by hand, using paint pens. I begin with a curve, from which lines and forms begin to emerge, evolve, morph, and grow organically, in an intuitive flow, while maintaining delicate,,,"

Justine Ashbee certain kind of sensation 38" x 50"2006

in many millions of years

"TO DRAW AS LIGHTNING AND LIGHT OF SEARCH DEEP AND INTIMATE VISION IN ENDLESS CONCEPTUAL POSSIBILITIES OF TRANSFORMATION OF INTERNAL VISION." Roberto Calbucci

via vvork

Universal Default

MICHAEL VAHRENWALD. White Hill, Wal-Mart, Oneonta, NY 2006 from the series Universal Default . via we cant paint.

Turkish Delight

Anne Polashenski's work incorporates textile patterns and photographs of figures in patterned clothing. The painted and collaged patterns act as a form of camouflage to hide and protect the body.

Anne Polashenski, Turkish Delight: Serenk Obliteration, 2008, 18 x 15 inches, C-print and gouache on paper (detail)

Turkish Delight: Çintamani Obliteration, 2008, 16 x 16 inches, C-print and gouache on paper via

Peacock

Elana Herzog, “Untitled 2006 (Peacock),” cotton chenille bedspread, staples in gypsum panel, at Grendel . via ohlizajane

płacz

by aleksandra waliszewska via http://neverneverland.tumblr.com/

american beauty

jaime martinez photography

via amygoodwin

Lust

Judy Fox, Lust 2007, aqua-resin and casein, 8 x 26 x 15 inches

Anatomie du désir

Hans Bellmer

via just 5 minutes

Rose In Mouth

Michal O'hana Cole

color photograph, 2000, 80x60 cm, edition of 5 , soon to be exhibited at Florentin45 gallery

Night Over Europe

The following press clipping is on the back of the photograph: Night Over Europe Enemy tracer bullets weave an intricate pattern as they shoot towards the planes of the Royal Air Force during a night attack on Hamburg. This picture was made from one of the raiding planes. via unpalombaro and we are sick

Artforms of Nature

This illustration is by Ernst Haeckel’s book “Kunstformen der Natur” [Artforms of Nature]published in 1904.

Ernst Haeckel (1834 – 1919), a German biologist, philosopher, physician, who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many terms in biology, as well as the term "ecology". Haeckel traveled far and wide, from Sicily to Ceylon, to the North Sea, and beyond. Sketchpads and watercolors accompanied his microscope wherever he went. His on-the-spot drawings of deep-sea vegetation, aquatic creatures, frogs, birds, and higher animals were turned into more than 1,000 engravings. Kunstformen der Natur High resolution scans of all of the plates are available here. via siongchin