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Ai Weiwei STUDY OF PERSPECTIVE series (1995-2003)
Here, the artist disrupts the usual power flow by photographing his defiant gesture against these “power” symbols. Instead of being the subject under the gaze of these monumental institutions, Wei positions himself as the one who gazes back defiantly
Here, the artist disrupts the usual power flow by photographing his defiant gesture against these “power” symbols. Instead of being the subject under the gaze of these monumental institutions, Wei positions himself as the one who gazes back defiantly
Theodor von Holst (1810 - 1844)
The Fairy Lovers, c. 1840
Oil on canvas, 41.3 x 31.1 cm
The figures are widely read as Oberon and Titania from Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Entwined in a passionate embrace, they haste through the moonlit forest with the wind nourishing their stride.
The Fairy Lovers, c. 1840
Oil on canvas, 41.3 x 31.1 cm
The figures are widely read as Oberon and Titania from Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Entwined in a passionate embrace, they haste through the moonlit forest with the wind nourishing their stride.
December 22, 2024 at 12:00 PM
Theodor von Holst (1810 - 1844)
The Fairy Lovers, c. 1840
Oil on canvas, 41.3 x 31.1 cm
The figures are widely read as Oberon and Titania from Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Entwined in a passionate embrace, they haste through the moonlit forest with the wind nourishing their stride.
The Fairy Lovers, c. 1840
Oil on canvas, 41.3 x 31.1 cm
The figures are widely read as Oberon and Titania from Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Entwined in a passionate embrace, they haste through the moonlit forest with the wind nourishing their stride.
Yōshū Chikanobu, ‘Yamashiro, Snow in Rokuhara’ from the series ‘Snow, Moon, and Flowers’ (1884)
General Taira no Kiyomori (1118-1181) who established the first samurai dictatorial government in Japan is depicted here tormented by apparitions of Yūrei — the ghosts of his enemies
General Taira no Kiyomori (1118-1181) who established the first samurai dictatorial government in Japan is depicted here tormented by apparitions of Yūrei — the ghosts of his enemies
December 21, 2024 at 10:35 AM
Yōshū Chikanobu, ‘Yamashiro, Snow in Rokuhara’ from the series ‘Snow, Moon, and Flowers’ (1884)
General Taira no Kiyomori (1118-1181) who established the first samurai dictatorial government in Japan is depicted here tormented by apparitions of Yūrei — the ghosts of his enemies
General Taira no Kiyomori (1118-1181) who established the first samurai dictatorial government in Japan is depicted here tormented by apparitions of Yūrei — the ghosts of his enemies
Mark Rothko, untitled (1956)
“I’m not interested in relationships of colour or form or anything else. I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions — tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.”
“A painting is not about an experience. It is an experience.”
“I’m not interested in relationships of colour or form or anything else. I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions — tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.”
“A painting is not about an experience. It is an experience.”
December 21, 2024 at 7:08 AM
Mark Rothko, untitled (1956)
“I’m not interested in relationships of colour or form or anything else. I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions — tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.”
“A painting is not about an experience. It is an experience.”
“I’m not interested in relationships of colour or form or anything else. I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions — tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.”
“A painting is not about an experience. It is an experience.”
Debbie Harry
“You always fall for the rascal or the guy who's got a little bit of the devil in him. You can't help it.”
Photograph by Chris Stein, 1982
BLONDIE
“You always fall for the rascal or the guy who's got a little bit of the devil in him. You can't help it.”
Photograph by Chris Stein, 1982
BLONDIE
December 21, 2024 at 6:27 AM
Debbie Harry
“You always fall for the rascal or the guy who's got a little bit of the devil in him. You can't help it.”
Photograph by Chris Stein, 1982
BLONDIE
“You always fall for the rascal or the guy who's got a little bit of the devil in him. You can't help it.”
Photograph by Chris Stein, 1982
BLONDIE
Jimi Hendrix setting fire to his guitar at Monterey Pop Festival (1967)
“I decided to destroy my guitar at the end of a song as a sacrifice. You sacrifice things you love. I love my guitar.”
Photograph by Ken Marcus
“I decided to destroy my guitar at the end of a song as a sacrifice. You sacrifice things you love. I love my guitar.”
Photograph by Ken Marcus
December 20, 2024 at 7:22 AM
Jimi Hendrix setting fire to his guitar at Monterey Pop Festival (1967)
“I decided to destroy my guitar at the end of a song as a sacrifice. You sacrifice things you love. I love my guitar.”
Photograph by Ken Marcus
“I decided to destroy my guitar at the end of a song as a sacrifice. You sacrifice things you love. I love my guitar.”
Photograph by Ken Marcus
Kazimir Malevich, Painterly Realism of a Boy with a Knapsack — Colour Masses in the Fourth Dimension (1915)
Malevich’s Suprematism rejected traditional realism and mimetic representation, which the artist saw as tethered to a utilitarian worldview and subsequent historical baggage.
Malevich’s Suprematism rejected traditional realism and mimetic representation, which the artist saw as tethered to a utilitarian worldview and subsequent historical baggage.
December 20, 2024 at 7:00 AM
Kazimir Malevich, Painterly Realism of a Boy with a Knapsack — Colour Masses in the Fourth Dimension (1915)
Malevich’s Suprematism rejected traditional realism and mimetic representation, which the artist saw as tethered to a utilitarian worldview and subsequent historical baggage.
Malevich’s Suprematism rejected traditional realism and mimetic representation, which the artist saw as tethered to a utilitarian worldview and subsequent historical baggage.
Martha Rosler’s “House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home” Iraq (2004, 2008)
In response to the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, Rosler revisited her earlier series, applying the same strategy of photomontage in order to reflect on the continuities in American militarism and consumer culture
In response to the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, Rosler revisited her earlier series, applying the same strategy of photomontage in order to reflect on the continuities in American militarism and consumer culture
December 20, 2024 at 12:33 AM
Martha Rosler’s “House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home” Iraq (2004, 2008)
In response to the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, Rosler revisited her earlier series, applying the same strategy of photomontage in order to reflect on the continuities in American militarism and consumer culture
In response to the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, Rosler revisited her earlier series, applying the same strategy of photomontage in order to reflect on the continuities in American militarism and consumer culture
Martha Rosler’s “House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home” Vietnam (1967-1972)
The photomontages juxtapose idyllic images of American domestic interiors taken from Life Magazine with the horrors of the Vietnam war. The conflict was the first to be widely televised earning the name “living-room war.”
The photomontages juxtapose idyllic images of American domestic interiors taken from Life Magazine with the horrors of the Vietnam war. The conflict was the first to be widely televised earning the name “living-room war.”
December 20, 2024 at 12:18 AM
Martha Rosler’s “House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home” Vietnam (1967-1972)
The photomontages juxtapose idyllic images of American domestic interiors taken from Life Magazine with the horrors of the Vietnam war. The conflict was the first to be widely televised earning the name “living-room war.”
The photomontages juxtapose idyllic images of American domestic interiors taken from Life Magazine with the horrors of the Vietnam war. The conflict was the first to be widely televised earning the name “living-room war.”
Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain (1973)
Cinematography by Rafael Corkidi.
Based on Ascent of Mount Carmel (1579) and Mount Analogue (1952), the film is surrealist masterpiece that blends mysticism, alchemy, and esotericism with an audacious critique of societal and spiritual constructs.
Cinematography by Rafael Corkidi.
Based on Ascent of Mount Carmel (1579) and Mount Analogue (1952), the film is surrealist masterpiece that blends mysticism, alchemy, and esotericism with an audacious critique of societal and spiritual constructs.
December 19, 2024 at 10:58 PM
Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain (1973)
Cinematography by Rafael Corkidi.
Based on Ascent of Mount Carmel (1579) and Mount Analogue (1952), the film is surrealist masterpiece that blends mysticism, alchemy, and esotericism with an audacious critique of societal and spiritual constructs.
Cinematography by Rafael Corkidi.
Based on Ascent of Mount Carmel (1579) and Mount Analogue (1952), the film is surrealist masterpiece that blends mysticism, alchemy, and esotericism with an audacious critique of societal and spiritual constructs.
1969 Space Beauty Ads and Media
During the time of Apollo missions women’s magazines utilised the
space trend to promote their brands.
1. Seventeen Magazine and the products for astronomical “Space Face”
2. Revlon in Cosmopolitan: the luminesque eye “Moon Drops” (liquid eyeliner and eyeshadow)
During the time of Apollo missions women’s magazines utilised the
space trend to promote their brands.
1. Seventeen Magazine and the products for astronomical “Space Face”
2. Revlon in Cosmopolitan: the luminesque eye “Moon Drops” (liquid eyeliner and eyeshadow)
December 19, 2024 at 9:20 PM
1969 Space Beauty Ads and Media
During the time of Apollo missions women’s magazines utilised the
space trend to promote their brands.
1. Seventeen Magazine and the products for astronomical “Space Face”
2. Revlon in Cosmopolitan: the luminesque eye “Moon Drops” (liquid eyeliner and eyeshadow)
During the time of Apollo missions women’s magazines utilised the
space trend to promote their brands.
1. Seventeen Magazine and the products for astronomical “Space Face”
2. Revlon in Cosmopolitan: the luminesque eye “Moon Drops” (liquid eyeliner and eyeshadow)
David Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch (1991)
Cinematography by Peter Suschitzsky
An adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ novel Naked Lunch (1959) and short story collection Exterminator! (1953)
— “I'd like you to meet my friend. He specialises in sexual ambivalence”
— “Sexual Ambulance, did you say?”
Cinematography by Peter Suschitzsky
An adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ novel Naked Lunch (1959) and short story collection Exterminator! (1953)
— “I'd like you to meet my friend. He specialises in sexual ambivalence”
— “Sexual Ambulance, did you say?”
December 19, 2024 at 9:04 PM
David Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch (1991)
Cinematography by Peter Suschitzsky
An adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ novel Naked Lunch (1959) and short story collection Exterminator! (1953)
— “I'd like you to meet my friend. He specialises in sexual ambivalence”
— “Sexual Ambulance, did you say?”
Cinematography by Peter Suschitzsky
An adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ novel Naked Lunch (1959) and short story collection Exterminator! (1953)
— “I'd like you to meet my friend. He specialises in sexual ambivalence”
— “Sexual Ambulance, did you say?”
Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell’s Performance (1970)
Starring Mick Jagger, James Fox, and Anita Pallenberg
"The only performance that makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness. Am I right? Eh?"
Starring Mick Jagger, James Fox, and Anita Pallenberg
"The only performance that makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness. Am I right? Eh?"
December 19, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell’s Performance (1970)
Starring Mick Jagger, James Fox, and Anita Pallenberg
"The only performance that makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness. Am I right? Eh?"
Starring Mick Jagger, James Fox, and Anita Pallenberg
"The only performance that makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness. Am I right? Eh?"
Wassily Kandinsky, Impression III (Concert), 1911
“Literature, music and art are the first and most sensitive spheres in which a spiritual revolution makes itself felt”
When one is represented through the medium of another, the result “turns away from the soulless life of the present.”
“Literature, music and art are the first and most sensitive spheres in which a spiritual revolution makes itself felt”
When one is represented through the medium of another, the result “turns away from the soulless life of the present.”
December 19, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Wassily Kandinsky, Impression III (Concert), 1911
“Literature, music and art are the first and most sensitive spheres in which a spiritual revolution makes itself felt”
When one is represented through the medium of another, the result “turns away from the soulless life of the present.”
“Literature, music and art are the first and most sensitive spheres in which a spiritual revolution makes itself felt”
When one is represented through the medium of another, the result “turns away from the soulless life of the present.”
Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up (1966)
Cinematography by Carlo Di Palma
“Nothing like a little disaster for sorting things out”
Quintessential mod-era film set in London’s swinging 60s fashion and art scene
Cinematography by Carlo Di Palma
“Nothing like a little disaster for sorting things out”
Quintessential mod-era film set in London’s swinging 60s fashion and art scene
December 19, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up (1966)
Cinematography by Carlo Di Palma
“Nothing like a little disaster for sorting things out”
Quintessential mod-era film set in London’s swinging 60s fashion and art scene
Cinematography by Carlo Di Palma
“Nothing like a little disaster for sorting things out”
Quintessential mod-era film set in London’s swinging 60s fashion and art scene
“Book of the Images of the Fixed Stars” of Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (964)
The astronomer built on Ptolemy’s Almagest, refining the catalog of stars and constellations with new observations. His work provided one of the earliest star atlases to bridge classical Greek and Islamic astronomical traditions
The astronomer built on Ptolemy’s Almagest, refining the catalog of stars and constellations with new observations. His work provided one of the earliest star atlases to bridge classical Greek and Islamic astronomical traditions
December 19, 2024 at 12:59 PM
“Book of the Images of the Fixed Stars” of Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (964)
The astronomer built on Ptolemy’s Almagest, refining the catalog of stars and constellations with new observations. His work provided one of the earliest star atlases to bridge classical Greek and Islamic astronomical traditions
The astronomer built on Ptolemy’s Almagest, refining the catalog of stars and constellations with new observations. His work provided one of the earliest star atlases to bridge classical Greek and Islamic astronomical traditions
1960s Space Age fashion pioneer André Courrèges and his goggles.
The designs featured bold frames that evoked astronaut visors.
Courrèges trained as an engineer before transitioning to fashion, which informed his precision and interest in structure
The designs featured bold frames that evoked astronaut visors.
Courrèges trained as an engineer before transitioning to fashion, which informed his precision and interest in structure
December 19, 2024 at 12:20 PM
1960s Space Age fashion pioneer André Courrèges and his goggles.
The designs featured bold frames that evoked astronaut visors.
Courrèges trained as an engineer before transitioning to fashion, which informed his precision and interest in structure
The designs featured bold frames that evoked astronaut visors.
Courrèges trained as an engineer before transitioning to fashion, which informed his precision and interest in structure
Ai Weiwei STUDY OF PERSPECTIVE series (1995-2003)
Here, the artist disrupts the usual power flow by photographing his defiant gesture against these “power” symbols. Instead of being the subject under the gaze of these monumental institutions, Wei positions himself as the one who gazes back defiantly
Here, the artist disrupts the usual power flow by photographing his defiant gesture against these “power” symbols. Instead of being the subject under the gaze of these monumental institutions, Wei positions himself as the one who gazes back defiantly
December 18, 2024 at 1:13 AM
Ai Weiwei STUDY OF PERSPECTIVE series (1995-2003)
Here, the artist disrupts the usual power flow by photographing his defiant gesture against these “power” symbols. Instead of being the subject under the gaze of these monumental institutions, Wei positions himself as the one who gazes back defiantly
Here, the artist disrupts the usual power flow by photographing his defiant gesture against these “power” symbols. Instead of being the subject under the gaze of these monumental institutions, Wei positions himself as the one who gazes back defiantly
1km High Cliff on Comet Churyumov - Gerasimenko shot from Rosetta spacecraft.
The probe is named after the Rosetta Stone — the artefact that deciphered the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. The stone contained 3 inscriptions in different writing systems: hieroglyphs, demotic script, and Greek
The probe is named after the Rosetta Stone — the artefact that deciphered the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. The stone contained 3 inscriptions in different writing systems: hieroglyphs, demotic script, and Greek
December 18, 2024 at 12:42 AM
1km High Cliff on Comet Churyumov - Gerasimenko shot from Rosetta spacecraft.
The probe is named after the Rosetta Stone — the artefact that deciphered the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. The stone contained 3 inscriptions in different writing systems: hieroglyphs, demotic script, and Greek
The probe is named after the Rosetta Stone — the artefact that deciphered the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. The stone contained 3 inscriptions in different writing systems: hieroglyphs, demotic script, and Greek
Odilon Redon ‘Obsession’ (1894)
December 9, 2024 at 9:34 PM
Odilon Redon ‘Obsession’ (1894)
Edvard Munch ‘The Kiss IV’ (1897–1902)
December 9, 2024 at 9:31 PM
Edvard Munch ‘The Kiss IV’ (1897–1902)
August Supermoon rising beyond the temple of Poseidon
Sounion, Greece
Photograph by Alexandros Maragos
Sounion, Greece
Photograph by Alexandros Maragos
December 7, 2024 at 8:11 PM
August Supermoon rising beyond the temple of Poseidon
Sounion, Greece
Photograph by Alexandros Maragos
Sounion, Greece
Photograph by Alexandros Maragos
Niki de Saint Phalle’s Tarot Garden in Tuscany based on the twenty-two Major Arcana cards (1979–1998)
“It’s my destiny to make a place where people can come and be happy: a garden of joy”
“It’s my destiny to make a place where people can come and be happy: a garden of joy”
December 2, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Niki de Saint Phalle’s Tarot Garden in Tuscany based on the twenty-two Major Arcana cards (1979–1998)
“It’s my destiny to make a place where people can come and be happy: a garden of joy”
“It’s my destiny to make a place where people can come and be happy: a garden of joy”
Ingmar Bergman, The Seventh Seal (1957)
Cinematography by Gunnar Fischer
“I live now in a world of ghosts, a prisoner in my dreams”
Cinematography by Gunnar Fischer
“I live now in a world of ghosts, a prisoner in my dreams”
December 2, 2024 at 2:35 PM
Ingmar Bergman, The Seventh Seal (1957)
Cinematography by Gunnar Fischer
“I live now in a world of ghosts, a prisoner in my dreams”
Cinematography by Gunnar Fischer
“I live now in a world of ghosts, a prisoner in my dreams”
Tracey Emin
I never Asked to Fall in Love — You made me Feel like This (2018)
I never Asked to Fall in Love — You made me Feel like This (2018)
November 29, 2024 at 2:46 AM
Tracey Emin
I never Asked to Fall in Love — You made me Feel like This (2018)
I never Asked to Fall in Love — You made me Feel like This (2018)
Andrei Tarkovsky, Nostalghia (1983)
Cinematography by Giuseppe Lanci
“I am fed up with all your beauties”
Cinematography by Giuseppe Lanci
“I am fed up with all your beauties”
November 29, 2024 at 2:40 AM
Andrei Tarkovsky, Nostalghia (1983)
Cinematography by Giuseppe Lanci
“I am fed up with all your beauties”
Cinematography by Giuseppe Lanci
“I am fed up with all your beauties”