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Someone’s excited for the National Bison Legacy Act! The recently signed legislation declares the American Bison as the national mammal.

This image was published in Birds and Nature as part of an article on the decimation of bison in the few short decades in the middle of the 19th century.

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Happy #EarthDay! Here’s Annibale Carracci’s River Landscape (c. 1590) @ngadc.

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Happy Earth Day!

Tree, Maki Haku, Japanese woodblock print on paper, 1974

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Valentines for the art history nerd in your life.

Free printable folding versions:

Venus and Adonis: “You’ve Trapped My Heart”

Romance of the Rose: “Even Your Handshake Excites Me”

Helen and Paris: “I’ll Start a War for You”

Demons: “I Love You So Much It Scares Me”

Enjoy or make your own using any of the nearly 100,000 Open Content images!

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Adding a self-love printable Valentine’s card, cuz it’s important. Download and print here.

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#DoHoSuh: Passage opens at the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati this Friday, February 12. Artist talk for @cincycac members, 7pm. Public opening (free!), 8pm.

Above: “Apt. A, Corridor and Staircase, 348 West 22nd Street, New York NY 10011, USA” (detail), 2012 (at Contemporary Arts Center)

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László Moholy-Nagy, 1927. Rebuilt in C4D, © Alastair Gray, 2015.

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FEATURED ARTIST: Inna Babaeva, Brightly Lit, 2015. Wall lamps, insulating foam, paint. 52 x 16 x 12 inches. Courtesy the artist.

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Exactly 49 years ago yesterday, Sol LeWitt sent Eva Hesse an extraordinary 5-page letter in which he famously urged:

“Just stop thinking, worrying, looking over your shoulder wondering, doubting, fearing, hurting, hoping for some easy way out, struggling, grasping, confusing, itching, scratching, mumbling, bumbling, grumbling, humbling, stumbling, numbling, rumbling, gambling, tumbling, scumbling, scrambling, hitching, hatching, bitching, moaning, groaning, honing, boning, horse-shitting, hair-splitting, nit-picking, piss-trickling, nose sticking, ass-gouging, eyeball-poking, finger-pointing, alleyway-sneaking, long waiting, small stepping, evil-eyeing, back-scratching, searching, perching, besmirching, grinding, grinding, grinding away at yourself. Stop it and just DO!”

If you’re in Austin, make sure to stop by Converging Lines before it closes May 18 to see the letter in its entirety!

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In honor of National Letter Writing Day, we’re revisiting this incredible letter from Sol LeWitt to Eva Hesse.

#national letter writing day #eva hesse #sol lewitt #converging lines

In honor of #WorldAIDSDay, Evan Garza, Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, reflects on a work from the Blanton's collection:

First created by Eric Avery, M.D. for an installation at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in 1993, which featured HIV blood testing as both public performance and a means of raising awareness about AIDS, this cast paper piñata of the HIV virus is filled with condoms rather than candy. Avery, who worked as a medical doctor and AIDS psychiatrist at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, staged these blood testing performances in the early 1990s within his room-sized installations, which featured wallpaper dotted by countless red blood cells and many of these HIV virus piñatas hung from the ceiling. These art and medical actions in Houston and New York encouraged participants to demystify the HIV blood testing process and share their personal relationship to AIDS and those who have been affected by it.

Eric Avery, HIV Condom Filled Piñata, 1993, woodcut on two joined cast paper hemispheres, gift of the artist, 1996