Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe
Drawing by Henri Matisse
Did you know that Matisse admired the work of American horror poet Edgar Allan Poe? Apparently the French were obsessed with his work.
“I was worth over $1,000,000 when I was 23, and over $10,000,000 when I was 24, and over $100,000,000 when I was 25, and it wasn’t that important because I never did it for the money.”
Bye Steve!
Trippy Tea Party
I'm really not into coffee or tea time, but you gotta admit this is a pretty rad set. I would have a party and put booze in there...or soda. lol
"I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom."
Warhol talks about
Facebook before it existed.
This Andy Warhol quote is amazing. He pretty much wanted social media before it even existed. He would be posting his pictures from last night and sharing it with his social network right now if he lived today.
The Devils
Ring.
Does Rick Perry follow the call of a higher power or satanic dark power?
The other day I noticed something different about presidential hopeful Rick Perry. There was something different from him, where I haven't seen in other political types. He sports a huge gold ring. I know it caught your attention too. With further research we discovered it's a ring belonging to an old occult rite with Egyptian origins. If you watch his speeches closely he comments to himself, like “Yes Sir,” often when people applaud. Is Mr. Perry taking orders from another power?
Vanitas Still Life
by Aelbert Jansz van der Schoor
The two brothers that pick mushrooms!
Weird
October 1933 “bat woman” cover by Margaret Brundage
Tales
LOL
Someone's obsessed with Freddy huh?
It's All About the Chase.
memorial is here.
His statue has been 25 years in the making and is set to be unveiled on the very site where his most famous words inspired generations of Americans.
Now the long-awaited statue of Martin Luther King Jr has finally been revealed on the National Mall in Washington, DC, where the civil rights leader made his iconic 'I Have a Dream' address.
The giant 30ft statue - the first on the Mall to honour a non-U.S. president - sits in a direct line between existing memorials dedicated to Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson.
Fitting tribute: The massive memorial towers over tourists in Washington's National Mall
It was revealed during a low-key opening at 11am in the U.S. capital, ahead of a week of celebrations before Sunday's official dedication
As well as the massive sculpture of Dr King himself, the memorial also features a 450ft-long granite wall inscribed with 14 of his most memorable quotations..
Visitors to the memorial reach the likeness of Dr King by walking through an 'entry portal' of two large stones with a gap inbetween.
The third stone, bearing Luther King's image, sits further forward on the plaza near to inscribed text which includes another quote from the civil rights leader: 'Out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope'.
The official dedication to the statue will take place on August 28 this year, the 48th anniversary of his historic speech.
President Obama is due to speak at the event in six days time.
The sheer size of the sculpture of Dr King sets it apart from nearby statues of Jefferson and Lincoln, which are both about 20ft (6m) tall, though inside larger monuments.
Jefferson and Lincoln - both of who appear in the famous Mount Rushmore sculpture - are widely regarded of two of the greatest ever leaders of the U.S.
The former was a Founding Father of America and author of the Declaration of Independence, while the latter is renowned for leading America through possibly its greatest ever crisis - the Civil War - by restoring the Union and ending slavery.
Martin Luther King, Jr is seen by many as a heroic leader in the history of modern American liberalism.
His tireless and impassioned campaigning in the African American civil rights movement lead to the ending of racial segregation and racial discrimination.
Standing tall: The 30ft-tall Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial is unveiled to the public for the first time ahead of its official dedication on Sunday
Eyecatching: A cyclist stops to admire the towering statue, which has been 25 years in the making
The memorial site also features a 450ft-long granite wall inscribed with 14 Martin Luther King quotations
Via: Daily Mail
Joan Collins
in 1954
Natalie Irish is a Houston, Texas artist who puckers up for her art. After applying some rich red lipstick, Irish gets to work on a stark white canvas–by pressing her lips to it repeatedly. Wow, I wonder if she gets tired of kissing after she finishes painting?
She likes
Check out this video where she makes a painting. The beginning is a little slow paced and out of context but when you catch the middle end of the video it's really cool how she makes the work.
kissing
a lot
Artist likes to slap on lipstick and make out with the canvas.
Via: Leon Crackston
Last March, the “New York Times” lamented in a commentary from David Pogue the demise of the sounds of the analog age. That scratching of a record as the needle leaves the vinyl, signaling the end of an album; the fast forward/rewind screeching zip-zip of a tape; the busy tone of a telephone; the “ka-ching” of a cash register. For the most part, none exist anymore.
So it’s the sound when entering George Sanchez-Calderon’s installation room at the de la Cruz Collection that feels the most immediate: it’s the click, click, click, flip, flip, flip of a train station sign changing times and destinations. The sound emanates from a real, giant Solari train station mechanism and is immediately recognizable to anyone (as in most of the world) who has traveled on trains. It is immediately identifiable as old-fashioned. The aural and visual aspect of the piece is also immediately nostalgic. Today, there are similar signs in airports, flashing updated times and gates, prompting a rush to new exit points — but they are silent. The digital age has left us mute without these telltale cues, which once became synonymous with “Modernism” and are now dated. Funny, isn’t it?
Sanchez-Calderon, whose quirky and engaging works have invigorated the Miami landscape for years, played with the idea of Modernism— its contradictions and its after effects — on a number of previous occasions. For instance, he erected an 80-percent-scale version of Le Corbusier’s classic Modernist house under a freeway overpass in Overtown, which stood for several years back in the early 2000s. On the one hand, here was a representative of “progress” as the Modern age once heralded, sitting in one of the most decrepit and neglected areas of any modern city in the world. As an artist, he is interested in both the literal and metaphorical architecture of our current era.
For his latest installation, called “The Family of Man” (a name appropriated from a mid-century MOMA exhibit from Edward Steichen), the big black-and-white sign flips and clicks, to tell us a new destination, a new time. On opening night, it included lots of repetitions of places, such as Providence (R.I.), and the same times, such as 6:66. Then, names of our corporate masters took the place of the “destination:” Wells Fargo, Merrill Lynch, Moody’s. Where, indeed, are we going?
“I began to look for and found a Solari sign in early 2009, shortly after the September market crash of ’08,” says Sanchez-Calderon about the inspiration. “An analog device that marked this transition, a marker of sorts for Modernism.” The work will change throughout the month or so that it is up. “It only gets better,” says the artist.
“The Family of Man” site-specific installation, through Oct. 8, at the de la Cruz Collection, 23 N.E. 41st St., Miami; www.delacruzcollection.org.
GEORGE SANCHEZ-CALDRON
Story on the new installation "The Family of Man."
Via: Knight Arts
By: Anne Tschida
