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Princess Bibesco (Marthe Lahovary), 1920, Edouard Vuillard

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Chicken, Egg, or Lemon

On the usual view the work arises out of and by the means of the activity of the artist. But by what and whence is the artist what he is? -Heidegger

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someone, write me a letter in the style of James Lee Byars, plz

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From a note in the MoMA artist file of James Lee Byars, “This biographical statement was distributed for the Byars performance which took place in Nov. of 1967 for the opening of the “Made with Paper” exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Crafts. The performance consisted of large stripes of water soluble paper being laid down on West 53rd St. (between 5th and 6th Ave; requiring the block to be closed off) in the form of a man. To conclude the performance two NYC sanitation trucks drove over the paper man turning it into foamy suds.”  

some images of the event here: http://www.rolublog.com/2014/02/3418/ -ds

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I’ve wanted to make a series of wearables since I first encountered Rebecca Horn’s work a couple years ago. Also, this vogue cover by Salvador Dalí is everything. 

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Illustrations from a 19th century book of fables in the style of Aesop, but with vegetables instead of animals. The land of vegetables is ruled over by a benevolent dictator squash named Cucurbitus I.

See the fully digitized book through the Getty Research Portal here.

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In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

Patti Smith 

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I like painting because it’s something I can never come to the end of.

Arshile Gorky, born on this day in 1904. (via whitneymuseum)

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'Yes of course, if its fine tomorrow," said Mrs. Ramsay. "But you will have to be up with the lark," she added...To her son these words conveyed an extraordinary joy, as if it were settled, the expedition were bound to take place, and the wonder to which he had looked forward, for years and years it seemed, was, after a night's darkness and a day's sail, within touch. Since he belonged, even at the age of six, to that great clan which cannot keep this feeling separate from that, but must let future prospects, with their joys and sorrows, cloud what is actually at hand, since to such people even in earliest childhood any turn in the wheel of sensation has the power to crystalize and transfix the moment upon which its gloom or radiance rests, James Ramsay, sitting on the floor cutting out pictures from the illustrated catalogue of the Army and Navy Stores, endowed the picture of the refrigerator as his mother spoke, with heavenly bliss."

To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf

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“Cellulose is biocompatible [and] has been used in a wide variety of regenerative medicine applications, such as cartilage tissue engineering, bone tissue engineering, and wound healing...”

Crossing kingdoms: Using decellularized plants as perfusable tissue engineering scaffolds Biomaterials, Volume 125, Issue null, Pages 13-22 Joshua R. Gershlak, Sarah Hernandez, Gianluca Fontana, Luke R. Perreault, Katrina J. Hansen, Sara A. Larson, Bernard Y.K. Binder, David M. Dolivo, Tianhong Yang, Tanja Dominko

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I'll listen, but I must go on my own way

Franca Sozzani

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I want us to find different ways to think through living and different ways to construct power

Diana Thater

http://www.pbs.org/program/art21/

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Abstraction in art is the abstraction of the figurative. But abstraction in film and video is the abstraction of time. And that's how I came to working with images of the natural world. 'Cause the natural world is not inherently narrative, its another kind of time, another kind of cycle

Diana Thater

http://www.pbs.org/program/art21/

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