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contemporaryartdaily: Whitney Biennial 2012

Tue, 29 May 2012 04:02:12 -0400

Whitney Biennial 2012

manpodcast: You can’t talk about Roy Lichtenstein without...

Tue, 29 May 2012 04:01:53 -0400

You can’t talk about Roy Lichtenstein without talking about art history. Here’s one of Roy Lichtenstein’s riffs on Henri Matisse, complete with goldfish, drawings, an arabesque, a cityscape and a semi-still-life on a tabletop. (Click on the image or here to see the entire painting.) I’ve opened photo-replying on this post: If you think you know Matisse paintings/drawings that informed this Lichtenstein painting, Still Life with Goldfish (1974) at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, reply with a JPEG!

It’s Roy Lichtenstein week on The Modern Art Notes Podcast! This week’s program features James Rondeau, the head of the contemporary art department at the Art Institute of Chicago, talking about his new Lichtenstein retrospective. It opens to the public tomorrow. The exhibition is the first career-length survey of Lichtenstein’s art and the first retrospective of the artist in 18 years.

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Image: Roy Lichtenstein, Still Life with Goldfish, 1974. Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

The Broke Medievalist.: The oldest farming village in the Mediterranean islands is discovered in Cyprus

Tue, 29 May 2012 04:01:36 -0400

The Broke Medievalist.: The oldest farming village in the Mediterranean islands is discovered in Cyprus:

archaeologicalnews:

The oldest agricultural settlement ever found on a Mediterranean island has been discovered in Cyprus by a team of French archaeologists involving CNRS, the National Museum of Natural History, INRAP, EHESS and the University of Toulouse. Previously it was believed…

endpiece: Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944). Unfinished painting,...

Tue, 29 May 2012 04:01:21 -0400

endpiece:

Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944). Unfinished painting, 1944.

theonlymagicleftisart: (Joao MT)

Tue, 29 May 2012 04:01:05 -0400

theonlymagicleftisart:

(Joao MT)

hislittlefeet: Shrimp kabobs (Taken with instagram)

Tue, 29 May 2012 03:58:47 -0400

hislittlefeet:

Shrimp kabobs (Taken with instagram)

petswhowanttokillthemselves: Happy Cinco de Mayo Walter from...

Tue, 15 May 2012 13:58:41 -0400

petswhowanttokillthemselves:

Happy Cinco de Mayo

Walter from Sarah and family in Seattle

theanimalblog: by: wheresmyweed

Tue, 15 May 2012 13:58:26 -0400

theanimalblog:

by: wheresmyweed

tumblrbot: nevver: Kock ‘em Sock ‘em BEST ROBOT FIGHT I’VE...

Tue, 15 May 2012 13:58:04 -0400

tumblrbot:

nevver:

Kock ‘em Sock ‘em

BEST ROBOT FIGHT I’VE EVER SEEN

yumuseum: COUNT AWAY AND READY THAT BONFIRE: LAG B’OMER IS...

Tue, 15 May 2012 13:57:18 -0400

yumuseum:

COUNT AWAY AND READY THAT BONFIRE: LAG B’OMER IS TOMORROW!

Take the time this counting of the omer to check out this calendar.

During the time of the Second Temple, there was a commandment to bring a set amount of barley on the second day of Passover. This set amount of barley was known as an omer. After counting 49 days from the giving of the omer, on the 50^th day there was a commandment to bring the first offering of the year to theTemple. Although there is no longer a Temple, Jews are still obliged to count the 49 days.

This commandment to count the omer comes from the Biblical verse: “And from the day on which you bring the sheaf of wave offering – the day after the Sabbath – you shall count off seven weeks” (Lev. 23:15). The process of counting led to the creation of calendars to aid in the process of the omer.

This particular calendar (mid 20^th century) is written on parchment and is illuminated with different images. The parchments are housed in a case that was made later. There are two knobs on either side for advancing the parchment. The wooden case is decorated with silver appliqué engraving that have the names of the 12 tribes inscribed along with engravings of animals and an abbreviated name of G-d. There is little known about this calendar, but the initials N.D. is found on the bottom of the case which could perhaps be the name of the owner.

Omer Calendar, 20th Century. Collection of Yeshiva University Museum (F341)

vibemag: Did Rihanna and Meek Mill Go on a Strip Club Date in...

Tue, 15 May 2012 13:57:02 -0400

vibemag:

Did Rihanna and Meek Mill Go on a Strip Club Date in NYC?

utnereader: Polari: A Tart in Gildy Clobbers

Tue, 15 May 2012 13:56:38 -0400

utnereader:

Polari: A Tart in Gildy Clobbers

Tracking Pyongyang: North Korea to Launch Third Space Satellite for Kim Il Sung Centenary

Tue, 15 May 2012 13:56:22 -0400

Tracking Pyongyang: North Korea to Launch Third Space Satellite for Kim Il Sung Centenary:

trackingpyongyang:

Just weeks after completing negotiatons with the United States for food aid in return for halting uranium enrichment, nulcear tests, and missile tests among other programs, the DPRK has announced it will test what will now be its third satelllite under the name Kwangmyongsong (광명성),…

britticisms: Beasts of the Southern Wild trailer This looks...

Tue, 15 May 2012 13:56:00 -0400

britticisms:

Beasts of the Southern Wild trailer

This looks weird and powerful, a great combination for a new film. I’ve already watched the trailer twice. “It’s captivating,” would be an understatement.

thesmithian: Where the essays and travel narratives in Perfume...

Tue, 15 May 2012 13:55:40 -0400

thesmithian:

Where the essays and travel narratives in Perfume Dreams go down like dry vermouth, the recent publication pours out summer lightness, still mischievous but tart.

more.

beingblog: “Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift...

Tue, 15 May 2012 13:55:22 -0400

beingblog:

“Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life’s cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person has exhibited it.”

—Ralph Waldo Emerson from Self-Reliance.

Photo by Kim Sklinar. (Taken with instagram)

skymightfall: SpaceGhostPurrp - The Black God SGP on some...

Tue, 15 May 2012 13:55:05 -0400

skymightfall:

SpaceGhostPurrp - The Black God

SGP on some trill visuals for a joint off his album Mysterious Phonk: Chronicles of SpaceGhostPurrp which is out June 12th.

-St@rs

nprfreshair: Tomorrow: Breasts are getting bigger and arriving...

Tue, 15 May 2012 13:54:25 -0400

nprfreshair:

Tomorrow: Breasts are getting bigger and arriving earlier. And breast milk might not be as pure as you think it is. We’ll talk to science writer Florence Williams about her new book, Breasts.

Sprinkler Alarms (by spronkey)

criminalwisdom: The Chanel Chainsaw by Tom Sachs. (Via)

Tue, 15 May 2012 13:54:06 -0400

criminalwisdom:

The Chanel Chainsaw by Tom Sachs. (Via)

katsmakeup: 2012 Summer eyeshadow colours. These colours will...

Tue, 15 May 2012 13:40:20 -0400

katsmakeup:

2012 Summer eyeshadow colours.

These colours will be this summer best ones. If you want to have a trendy, awesome and fresh look pick one of these. ;)

1. MAC - Stars N’ Rockets

2. MAC - Atlantic Blue

3. MAC - Chrome Yellow

4. Barry M - Dazzle Dust

5. Inglot Matte - Orange

6. Bobbi Brown - Pink Pearl

Xo, Kat