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Elena ~ art, architecture and Asia (yes, almost all of it) lover ~

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Mimosa Echard, A/B25, 2017

A beautiful mess. Check her out.

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Julie Mehretu, Entropia (review), 2004 32-color lithograph and screenprint, 85.1 × 111.8 cm Edition of 45

For a video about her site-specific paintings commissioned by SFMOMA go here

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Franz Kline, HENRY H II (1959-60)

Before Clyfford Still and Willem de Kooning, there was Franz Kline. Amen.

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Jannis Kounellis, Untitled (1996) @ Benesse House Museum, Naoshima, Japan

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Beast of the Apocalypse From: Laurent d'Orléans, La Somme le Roi, Paris ca. 1295 (BL, Additional 54180, fol. 14v)

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Qualche volta le cose bellissime e quindi inutili, come tutte le cose veramente belle, possono diventare vere. Sono i sogni di chi crede nella forza silenziosa della bellezza, qualche volta vince e premia chi lavora per lei.

Giuseppe Panza, Ricordi di un collezionista

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Mark Tobey, Lumber Barons (1957)

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Do you ever know what the birds are singing? You don’t. But you listen to them anyway. So, sometimes with art, it is important just to look.

Pablo Picasso

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Atticus said to Jem one day, "I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird

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Curator Hans Ulrich Obrist on What Makes Painting an “Urgent” Medium Today

Artspace editor-in-chief Andrew M. Goldstein spoke to the renowned exhibition-maker about why the ancient art form remains strikingly relevant in the digital era.

You know, Gerhard Richter often says painting is the highest form of hope, and if you look at the way Klee paints these very paradise-like gardens but at the same time the insanity of human beings, he shows us all the directions the mind can go. Picabia said, “The head is round so it can change directions,” and so I think that’s another thing painting can do, to show us these different directions of the human mind. — Hans Ulrich Obrist

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Yasuaki Onishi, Distance to Forest (2010)

More pics here

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The World’s Top Architectural Pilgrimages

from Chandigarh to Fallingwater

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Christian Boltanski, Animitas (2016) @Jupiter Artland, Wilkieston, Edinburgh

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Ha Chong Hyun, Conjunction 04-15 (2004)

단색화 is the way.

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Moshe Safdie, Habitat 67 (1967)

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The Sleeping Lady (ca. 3600-2500 BC) from the Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum, Malta

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Kenji Wakasugi

- Pine trees in the mist, 2012 - Infinite Mountains, 2012 - Eternal Mountains, 2012