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[garadinervi]

Alena Kučerová, Untitled, (printing from a perforated plate on paper), 1968 [AWARE Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions, Paris. Private Collection. © Alena Kučerová]

[outofeverythingthisnamewasleft]

Josef Váchal (1884–1969)

[vintage-tigre]

The illustrations of Marjorie Cameron, “Peyote Vision” (1955) and others from Songs for the Witch Woman

[clearpills]

[berndwuersching]

Catherine Desroches

[godkissedme]

ferenc pinter

[concupiscience]

[lisamarie-vee]

[yoursforest]

very inspired by these illustrations in viking patterns for knitting by elsebeth lavold..so cool!!

[saeta-obscura]

The First and Second Days of Creation. Bible historiale of Guyart des Moulins. Paris, 14th c.

[biryun]

Jacqueline Morreau: Disclosing Eros, 1993. Etching.

[pmamtraveller]

Mao Hamaguchi - Girl Behind Lace

[1five1two]

'In the Winter Dusk'. David Grossmann. 2022.

[thunderstruck9]

David Grossmann (American, 1984), In the Winter Dusk, 2022. Oil on linen over panel, 127 × 76.2 cm.

[zegalba]

Devon Aoki for Dazed & Confused (1997) Photography: Horst Diekgerdes

[xushima]

Nancy Spero, Goddess Nut / Acrobat, 1989

Handprinting on handmade paper

[godshaped]

Destiny 命运; Hand in Hand 牵手

Oil on canvas, 2019, by Pang Maokun

[vyvilha]

Due to floods caused by the russian terrorist attack on the Kakhovka HPP, the house-museum that belonged to ukrainian naive artist Polina Rayko is now underwater. A moment of appreciation for her art, she is one of my favorite naive artists

[that-house]

I just saw perhaps the coolest art installation I have ever heard of.

This is a perfectly normal pin. On the head of it are 2.417 quintillion angels, give or take a few billion.

Joe Davis and Sarah Khan, the artist behind Baitul Ma’mur, (House of Angels) encoded the Arabic phrase “Subhan Allah” onto synthesized DNA, and then used that DNA to coat the head of a pin. According to some traditions, any time Subhan Allah is said or written, it creates an angel. With DNA being as dense an information storage medium as it is, this single pin has more created angels on it than have ever been born from human throats across all of human history.

And then in a fucking genius move, the art installation takes the form of a functional vending machine, loaded with an impossibly large quantity of angels. For $25, which goes right to the artists, you can buy a pin. I’m thinking about taking mine out of the test tube sometime and encasing it in resin to turn it into the highest % angel by volume earring ever worn, but that’s a project for the future.

There isn’t much else I can say that isn’t said by the documentation accompanying the exhibit. The photos aren’t the BEST quality but they should hopefully be mostly legible.

As of right now this installation is located at the MIT Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and if you’re ever in the area you should totally check it out