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Mapped, Zsofia Schweger

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Do Ho Suh: Almost Home

Images by rcruzniemiec aka archatlas

Do Ho Suh: Almost Home is the first major exhibition of the artist’s work on the East Coast. It will feature large-scale installations of the artist’s brightly hued “Hub” sculptures—intricately detailed, hand-sewn fabric recreations of homes where Suh has lived from around the world—along with several drawings and a series of semi-transparent replicas of household objects called “Specimens.” The Hubs comprise a series of conjoined rooms and passageways that visitors can enter and experience from the inside, including a new work depicting the artist’s childhood home in Seoul that will debut in the exhibition.

Text from Smithsonian American Art Museum

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The Wagon Station Encampment at Joshua Tree

For those who want to get out into the middle of nowhere to experience the Mohave desert in a unique way, artist Andrea Zittel has built the Wagon Station Encampment with a science fiction aesthetic.

Consisting of just 12 small cabins (maybe more appropriately described as pods) and a communal kitchen area, outdoor showers, and outhouses, the encampment manages to give a visitor as much of an opportunity to meet new people and enjoy a more solitary retreat. The pods are each really paired down – just a mattress, two shelves, an area for storing clothes, and a front hatch with a window for looking out at the desert sky. The encampment is made open to the public twice a year and can be reserved for $100 a week after filing a $20 application fee and being approved.

Images and text via

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On repeat

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Hungary

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Tunic with felines

Peru. Chimú. 1450 to 1550 AD

The Met

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Louise Bourgeois:  Ode a l’oubli

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Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work.

Chuck Close

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Sonia Delaunay

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Coexist Nynke Koster

Coexist collection KABK In 1921, the former director of the KABK bought a copy of the famous doors ‘Porta del Paradiso’(1425) by Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378-1455). These plaster doors form the basis of part of my graduation collection ‘Coexist’. The collection consists of 5 objects which are derived from copying various locations in the academy. The negatives of this copies get a new identity and together form my furniture collection.

Images and text via Nynke Koster

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Drake Burnette by Annemarieke van Drimmelen for True Photo Journal No.1 

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Gloria Hoppins “Housetop"-center medallion, corduroy, ca. 1975. 91 x 88 inches

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untitled by ALEXANDER CALDER