dynamicafrica:

For his latest series, ‘An Economy of Grace’, Nigerian-American artist Kehinde Wiley features women as his subjects - a first in the history of his works.

Currently on show at the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York, Wiley teamed up with another current artistic force and the man behind the recent surge in success for French label Givenchy, Riccardo Tisci, who designed the costumes for the subjects in all of Wiley’s pieces.

Read a Huffington Post interview with Wiley about this exhibition.

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wr3n:

Butcher and the Boar mural

1121 Hennepin Ave S. Artist: Adam Turman

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Spring (1896) by Mucha

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nothinglikearolls:

The Earth

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So it’s not art. Okay.

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My sister did this neat photography project where she took these black and white emulsions and framed them inside custom, handmade glass houses. She said that the glass houses are a physical manifestation of the distance and estrangement a viewer feels when looking at photographs of subjects that they can’t interact with.

yajifun:

鯨図　栗本瑞見　江戸時代

アカボウ鯨 “長四尋 味下品 油数十七八樽

槌鯨（ツチクジラ） “長四尋 味下品 油数四五十樽”

鰯鯨（イワシクジラ） “長五尋 味下品 油数二十樽ホド”

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oliviareallylikes:

after reblogging that Charley Harper mosaic mural I had to go find more pictures, because wow.

whirringwhirringwhirring:

by James Turrell.

You enter a square room with grey benches to sit on all around and the high ceiling has a square cut out so you can watch part of the sky.

This is only like 2 miles from my house

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cruisecontrolforcool:

Bristol yarnbomb, idk why I love it so much but that colorwork is gorgeous

I don’t like most yarn graffiti because it seems like they don’t care at all for how many colors they use or what patterns result. I’d much prefer stuff like this.

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fuckyeahbookarts:

Art Student Hand-Illuminates, Binds a Copy of Tolkien’s Silmarillion

German art student Benjamin Harff decided for his exam at the Academy of Arts to do something only slightly ambitious — to hand-illuminate and bind a copy of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Silmarillion. It took him six months of work. In very 21st century elvish-monk style, he hand-illuminated the text which had been printed on his home Canon inkjet printer. He worked with a binder to assemble the resulting book. (Source)

I promised myself I would never read the Silmarillion again, but this is so beautiful I would sob tears of the sweetest Valar blood if only I could hold it’s finely crafted opulence in my unworthy hands.

AMAZING.

More pictures here, but not nearly enough to make me happy.  Can I just have all the pages so I can print them out and bind them, please?

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I wonder if the decline of walking will lead to a decline of the creative process.