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gouged-doll

kristin jones and andrew ginzel, new york subway, 1998

thepuppyclub

I have decided that I am incompatible with this reality. Meet me in a parallel universe.

nobrashfestivity

Rene Magritte L'esprit Comique(The Comic Spirit) 1928

ghostowlattic

When The Clouds Roll By by bswise on Flickr.

redlipstickresurrected

Isabella Conti (Italian, b. Milan, Italy, based Lecco, Italy) - Chaos, Ink, Watercolor, +Digital

dailyrothko

Mark Rothko The Drawings of 1962 Wove paper. all approx. 11 1/16 x 8 9/16 in. (28.1 x 21.7 cm) Mixed media (Pencil, Ink, Watercolor and Wash) All Gifts of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., © Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko

We don't see many late drawings from Rothko, there's one in '56 and some that are studies for mural projects, but for some reason, in 1962 we have this nice group of works on paper. What the intention of then was, no one knows for sure.

In 1962 Rothko was working on the Harvard Murals, but these drawings don't really resemble that work and only the 3rd drawing, in pencil. seems more like it might have been a sketch.

But it's still a little funny. The Seagram and Harvard mural sketches are cementing shapes that Rothko wasn't known the use. After all the stacked rectangle forms Rothko had painted by 1962, why sketch a single one out in pencil?

In seems likely to me that at least the 4 of them, in ink, were meant to stand alone, but we will probably never know.

I'm presenting them here as a set even though they are all up on the blog individually. For one thing it's nice to look at then this way, and for another these are recent scans from the NGA, which are different in small ways than what's already up. The previous scans are professional vetted scans but these new ones were probably done all at the same time and we sometimes see less yellow in the paper than we've seen before.

Enjoy these.

Fred Gambino

Henrietta Harris

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Amy Casey — “Break Up” (acrylic on panel, 2025)

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genderoutlaws

Gilbert Baker helps hoist one of the two original rainbow flags created by the decoration committee for San Francisco Gay Freedom Day | 1978 | ph: James McNamara, lead seamster of the flags

henk-heijmans

Makenna Cart, 2022 - by Szilveszter Makó, Hungarian

#wardrobe goals

ladyvictoriart

The Sumiciu is a peculiar house-spirit from Asturias. These ravenous creatures are often blamed for the disappearance of household items and are known to swallow and disappear whatever they get their hands on. With an all-consuming void for a mouth they eat and eat and are never sated. Their true, ghostly form remains a mystery as they are never seen by mortal eyes.