Ruby Boddington

Zilvinas Kempinas, Tube, 2009. Scuola Grande della Misericordia. 53rd Venice Biennale

Tube is a work that creates a dramatic enclosed walkway over 80 feet long from stretched lengths of videotape. The work is one of the latest in a series employing Kempinas’ signature medium of unspooled magnetic tape, works that have inventively exploited the strength and ultra-lightweight nature of tape to create beguiling and seemingly contradictory physical spectacles that skillfully subvert relationships with architecture, form, and space.

Zilvinas was chosen to represent Lithuania by an independent committee from the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture and presented this installation at the Scuola Grande della Misericordia, a majestic building designed by architect Jacopo Sansovino that dates to the 16th century

Taken today on a trip to Nightshase Gardens

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:24:20 -0400

Taken today on a trip to Nightshase Gardens

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Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:51:00 -0400

iheartmyart: Oscar Jimenez

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:15:21 -0400

iheartmyart:

Oscar Jimenez

cosascool: Nils Eisfeld

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:15:16 -0400

cosascool:

Nils Eisfeld

apulu: An old lava crater in Mauritania. by André Kuipers on...

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:10:04 -0400

apulu:

An old lava crater in Mauritania.

by André Kuipers on Flickr.

life: Of the indispensable photographs taken during the Second...

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:55:39 -0400

life:

Of the indispensable photographs taken during the Second World War, Margaret Bourke-White’s image of survivors at Buchenwald in April 1945 — “staring out at their Allied rescuers,” as LIFE magazine put it, “like so many living corpses” — remains among the most haunting. The faces of the men, young and old, staring from behind the wire, “barely able to believe that they would be delivered from a Nazi camp where the only deliverance had been death,” attest with an awful eloquence to the depths of human depravity and, maybe even more powerfully, to the measureless lineaments of human endurance.

On the anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald by Patton’s Third Army, LIFE.com looks at the story — and at other, harrowing photographs — behind one of the indispensable images from World War II.

Read more here.

(Margaret Bourke-White—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

cosascool: by Werner Schnell Images

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:55:34 -0400

cosascool:

by Werner Schnell Images

darksilenceinsuburbia: Miler Lagos. Home is a recent sculptural...

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:55:28 -0400

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Miler Lagos.

Home is a recent sculptural installation by Colombian artist Miler Lagos. The piece was constructed at MagnanMetz Gallery late last year using carefully stacked books to create a compact dome that is entirely self-supporting. (via chris moore, thanks megan) (by Christopher)

sheslostctrl: New Bauhaus Museum / Architekten HRK

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:09:19 -0400

sheslostctrl:

New Bauhaus Museum / Architekten HRK

factandaphoto: The Wave, above, is in Arizona. Its unique...

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 17:10:05 -0400

factandaphoto:

The Wave, above, is in Arizona. Its unique appearance was caused by erosion of sandstone during the Jurassic period. But visiting the Wave? That’s a trick. The agency which administers in only issues twenty visiting licenses per day, which are selected by lottery.

(Photo via Wikimedia Commons)

unypl: “The Baader-Meinhof Complex”, by Stephen Aust Revised...

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:55:57 -0400

unypl:

“The Baader-Meinhof Complex”, by Stephen Aust

Revised Edition: Baader-Meinhof: The Inside Story of the R.A.F.

apulu: by franckbohbot

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:45:46 -0400

apulu:

by franckbohbot

dempow: old chap By philippe doucet

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:42:31 -0400

dempow:

old chap

By philippe doucet