Ars longa, vita brevis
Ah, the life of a conservator. The Cincinnati Museum of Art recently restored Van Gogh’s Undergrowth with Two Figures (1890) on the museum floor so that visitors could witness the enormous amount of work that goes into properly caring for a collection. Check out the video here.
Van Gogh, Undergrowth with Two Figures, 1890
- Pieter Stougaard ‘13
Wenzel Hablik, German Notgeld Design: Itzehoe, One Mark, 1921
There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
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‘Unwoven Light’ is a giant suspended chain-link fence installation at Rice Gallery by Soo Sunny Park.
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Lucretia Borgia Reigns in the Vatican in the Absence of Pope Alexander VI (c.1910) by Frank Cadogan Cowper.
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The work of Vivian Maier, who died in 2009, leaving behind 100,000 negatives that no one but she had ever seen. The photographs are being hailed as among the best in 20th-century street photographyPhotographs: Vivian Maier/Courtesy of Maloof Collection
Mesmerising.
Patti Smith || Gloria
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Barbara Kruger’s never really talked about Supreme, the skate company who’s been ripping off her ideas and prints letter for letter, color for color, for their red-and-white logo, which you have seen, because it is everywhere.
I emailed her casually to ask her about this. And today, she got back to me, and gave a candid statement on the matter of Supreme for the first time, ever, really. By emailing me a blank email, with an attachment. Which you can see above.
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Flower Garden (1905-1907)
Gustav Klimt
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Suburban Lawns, “Anything” from Suburban Lawns (International Record Syndicate, 1981)
