Cy Twombly’s workspace by David Seidner (via: thingsorganizedneatly)
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Jackson Pollock with his wife, artist Lee Krasner, in 1949.
In honor of the 100th anniversary of Pollock’s birth, TIME presents a gallery of the artist’s life. See more here.
Ansel Adams Street Photography in 1940s Los Angeles
Currently knee-deep in the misadventures of Arturo Bandini. This photo essay seems appropriate.
Every time I pop into the Brooklyn Museum, I love to check out this 1906 painting by Boris Anisfield with its supremely puffy clouds over the Black Sea. (Image courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum.)
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All-Sky Milky Way
Copyright: processing Lorenzo Comolli, images Lorenzo Comolli, Luigi Fontana, Giosuè Ghioldi, Emmanuele Sordini
This single image is able to show the entire sky, thanks to the truly dark sky of the Namibian savanna and to the absence of mountains. Only some small trees from the Tivoli farm are visible toward West.
This absolutely surreal picture appeared in a story that KCET just posted about Bunker Hill in L.A. The station has been doing a fascinating series on the laws that have shaped the L.A. landscape. This week they look at how the federal Housing Act of 1949 resulted in the destruction of the Victorian mansions that were once clustered on Bunker Hill. (Courtesy the L.A. Public Library and KCET.)
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Someone’s in a fowl mood in Young Husband: First Marketing, a 1854 painting by Lilly Martin Spencer. A well-known genre painter in her day, Spencer is one of a few women artists represented in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s newly installed American-art galleries.
Although men did the grocery shopping in Western states, as Met curator Carrie Rebora Barratt has noted, the scenario would have been unheard of in the East, and some press outlets denounced the picture for its demeaning representation of its clumsy male antihero.
While it might be overdoing it to read a pre-feminist message in the comical scenario—about who is the weaker sex, and so on—it certainly provides a different image of men than most of the paintings in these rooms, whose protagonists tend toward cowboys and Revolutionary War heroes.
Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art/Promised Gift of Max N. Berry.
