urban dance

Swooning over these gorgeous photos. On a semi-related note, I'm currently looking into taking another dance class. Photographs by Little Shao.

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glowing text installations

 

Amazing neon light text by Olivia Steele and installations by Korean artist Lee Jung. Seriously obsessed with the juxtaposition of the neon lights against a natural background in these images. Check out more works here.

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bold & beautiful

Polaroid exhibit at Dallas Contemporary, "Bold & Beautiful" compiles Self Service publisher Ezra Petronio's most iconic contributors. (via)

I spy Lee, Carine, Marc, Tom, Hamish, Azzedine, Giorgio, Karl...

prada fantasy lookbook f/w 2010

Sorry for the image-heavy post, lovers but it was sooo hard for me to choose my fave images from Prada's fall 2010 35-image fantasy lookbook. Miuccia always steers away from the norm with her artful collections so wouldn't it only make sense to produce an equally artful lookbook? The cartoonish aspects of the lookbook are bright, bold and don't make a lot of sense... but they don't really have to; the clothes are the focal point of each image and its interesting to see how they're interpreted. Click here to see the full lookbook.

Art direction and Artwork by OMA (Alexander Reichert & Fausto Fantinuoli), with photography by Phil Meech.

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portraits

Portraits of Debbie Harry, Tina Chow and Mick Jagger by Andy Warhol. His iconic style of painting over photographs is recognizable everywhere. The above portraits capture the subjects around the time when each was experiencing enormous success in their careers.

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tribute

A beautiful tribute to Alexander McQueen by Danny Roberts

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vamp

Something to do with your vintage vinyl collection when you're insanely bored. These are amazing. Check out more here.


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primary colors

Mondrian-inspired wedge


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picasso

Picasso drawing with light. He'd used every other medium in his art..why not? I know this concept isn't entirely new, I've seen people do this since I was a kid...but seeing Picasso do it is on another level.

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Tangled Alphabets

Tangled Alphabets is an exhibit at MoMA that features artists Leon Ferrari and Mira Schendel. It was by far one of my favorite exhibits at the museum because it was unlike anything I'd ever seen. Their pieces' detail and the conceptual imagery are mind-bogglingly complex. Their works "address language as a major visual subject matter: the visual body of language, the embodiment of voices as words and gestures, and language as a metaphor of the worldly aspect of human existence through the eloquence of naming and writing. They produced their works in the neighboring countries of Argentina and Brazil throughout the 1960s and 1980s, when the question of language was particularly central to Western culture due to the central role taken by post-structuralism, semiotics, and the philosophy of language. Although their drawings, sculptures, and paintings are contemporary with the birth of Conceptualism, they are distinctively different, and have not yet been exhibited in their entirety in the United States." (moma.org)

You can see more of their stunning pieces on the exhibit's website.

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Le pop

I took a few photos walking around MoMA (more like hobbling around, my feet were killing me at this point). Evidently I seem to have an affinity towards violently-themed pop art (minus the painting of the man in the mirror by I'm not sure who because it didn't occur to me to write down his name...actually it didn't occur to me to write down the name of any artist. However I do know that the bisected image of Elvis is by Warhol...but I'm sure everybody knew that. ) And I digress (sorry). One of my favorite pieces is the "Guardian Angel Handbag". Its kind of kooky but I could totally envision myself walking around with it, primarily to gauge peoples' reactions. PS- please excuse the poor photo quality as I was using my measly Nikon Coolpix that only has like 1.5 pixels.

Landscapes

Winston Chmielinski's figures are landscapes: visual metaphors that reveal an alternate significance only in the eyes of a willing signifier. The disconnect between what is perceived and what is seen, or in the case of Winston’s portraits, the self that is reflected, and the self that is felt, can only be sutured back together in works that first fragment the physical plane—a concentration of color in one face, a plague of shadows on another—in hoping to catch (through these intentioned cracks) a fleeting glimpse of the unsheathed self. If one can chart out a surface’s entirety, even as an assemblage of seemingly incongruous pieces, will he thus render it wholly inconsequential?
-wi-ch.com