im going down among the saints

lame

[hellanne]

Hagia Sophia, Istanbul

[urbnite]

Eames Molded Rocking Chair

[tell4u]

Francis Alÿs

Artwork by Francis Alys pushing a block of ice for 9 hours until melted through the streets of Mexico city. 

[laos-dothedu]

Teresa Margolles, Herida (Wound) 2008

In the floor of the gallery the artist carve a line and fill it with blood and other body fluids from corpses

[sioxh]

Ai Weiwei, Last Cigarette of the Smoking Generation, 1988

[chopthehusky]

Mixed prints on mules and hosiery at Versace SS 2019 - Milan Fashion Week .

[metagnosis]

Francis Alÿs, When Faith Moves Mountains (film still), 2002

[thisobscuredesireforbeauty]

Francis Alÿs: Night watch (2004, National Portrait Gallery). Alÿs released a fox, called Bandit, into the deserted gallery at night.

[topcat77]

Simone Leigh

Simone Leigh, ‘Kingston’, 2013

Terracotta, colored porcelain, epoxy, glass beads and India ink

[jpegging]

Ai Weiwei really is the most iconic artist alive

[nyctaeus]

Margolles, ‘Aire/Air’, 2003

Aire/air (2003) by Mexican artist Margolles fills space with air that is both physically and emotionally charged: water that has been used to wash the bodies of murder victims in Mexico City’s morgues is either dispensed as a fine mist via humidifiers, or (in a variant presumably intended to counteract the unease of viewers confronted with a too-stickily-tangible manifestation of violent death), used to cool the air blown out of air-conditioning units.

Margolles, who studied forensic science and once worked in the morgues themselves, turned to art as a means of confronting the evidence of brutality and misery her former occupation involved: “I didn’t know how to express myself in relation to human death”. Aire serves as an unseen yet tangible testament to lives themselves rendered invisible by violent crime.

[thunderstruck9]

Mark Francis (Northern Irish, b. 1962), Mission, 2014. Acrylic and oil on canvas, 135.2 x 134.8 cm.

[ehoradote]

Agnès Varda, 6 chats, la Pointe Courte, 1954

[artstories-cinnamonspark]

Egon Schiele | The Artist’s Sister-in-Law in a Striped Dress, Seated (1917)  

[aesthetique]

[nowness]

Laura Csocsan—Bold Type

Monochrome blocking.

[cosechadehuellas]

Pasar la tarde.

• Edward Weston

Dody, Point Lobos (1947)