Dilettante in fur

A look at Irish and International Arts and Culture

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Little Manhattan, Yutaka Sone, Marble carving, 2007-2009.

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Ghost of a Tree, Letha Wilson, 2011-12

Billboards series, Matthew Stone, 2012

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Pink Cairn/Sunset Airplane, Letha Wilson, 2009

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Panos Papanagiotou  from the series Mirrors 

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A selection of paintings from hyperrealist painter Rod Penner, depicting an uneasy nostalgia of small town Texas. See more over at Flavorwire

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Olive & Market St/High Dive/Airstream/Homegrown Food, Julie Blackmon, 2012

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Ministry of Highways and Transportation, 1979, Tbilisi, Georgia, Simona Rota

Taken from the Soviet Modernism 1955-1991 exhibition currently on show in Vienna, these buildings are part of a wider exploration of Soviet architecture from the latter half of the twentieth century across the former USSR. Not only are these buildings fascinating relics to architectural, design and even social history, many of these buildings are under a real threat of demolition and in rapid deterioration. See more of these incredible modernist feats over at Wallpaper* magazine.

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Ritual series, Matthew Stone

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Confetti #9/Confetti #4, Kurt Vonnegut, 2004

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Your blog is amazing.

Thank you, normal updating will resume soon hopefully!

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You have extremely good taste in art.

Why thank you, I've been very negligent with my Tumblr of late but your words have kicked me into gear, thanks for following, there'll be masses of updates shortly!

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Lou was the most beloved architect of our time... Yeah well think of anybody else; Frank Lloyd Wright was too cantankerous to love, Mies van der Rohe was, you couldn't talk to him at all, Le Corbusier was mean. But Lou, now there was a man.

Architect Philip Johnson on Louis Kahn

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Burning House, Carrie Schneider, 2009-2011.

"Home is where we enact our rituals of comfort, safety, and happiness, so it is fertile ground for artistic intervention. For Burning House, Carrie Schneider ritualistically immolated 15 house-structures on a remote island in a Midwestern pond, and she presents the documentation in one photograph per house as well as a compilation video. Schneider built and burned the homes over a span of more than two years, from September 2009 to November 2011. In the photographs, the surrounding landscape performs its own quiet drama of seasonal and diurnal effects, as sunsets accept the smoke and rains mute the blaze. The world tends to go on." 

Continue reading at Photograph Magazine

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Black Mountain, Cerro, Mexico, Paul Strand,1932

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Belgian artist, Xavier Delory's conceptual architectural photography

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CODES, MIDASpaces

Find out more about the collective's upcoming project here

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Here is a handful of shadow I have brought back to you: this decay, this hope, this mouth- ful of dirt, this poetry.

Margaret Atwood, from “Mushrooms” in Selected Poems: Volume 2

(via proustitute)