[scytheos]

Marina Abramovic | Cleaning the Mirror | 1995

[thinkingimages]

Jannis Kounellis | untitled (1980), stones, palette, soot

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[monopole]

[sweeetchai]

[dailyrothko]

[dailyrothko]

Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1955, Oil on canvas

© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS)

[endlingmusings]

The preserved hearts of the last known pair of great auks, part of the collection of the Natural History Museum of Denmark. The birds were nesting on the island of Eldey, off the coast of southwest Iceland, when they were killed on June 3rd, 1844. The single egg they'd been incubating at the time was crushed in the process. [ x ]

[cosmicanger]

“Feline heads“ Peru, Mochica culture 1st to 8th centuries AD

[weepingwidar]

Mario Abela (Maltese, 1983) - The Annunciation of Collapse (2024-2025)

[kyrasaphira]

Eye of Horus neck tattoo on the mummified remains of an Egyptian woman who lived 3,000 years ago, found in Deir el-Medina, the village of tomb builders

Smithsonian, photo by Anne Austin

[ametoraeye]

[symbolism-art-history]

The Swamp (1900) by Gustav Klimt

[thevaultoftheatomicspaceage]

computer punch cards

[jareckiworld]

Otto Möller (1883-1964) — Don Quichote [oil on canvas, 1921]

[sottocoperta]

- The Garden of France, Max Ernst

[sandmandaddy69]

[concupiscience]

[lamignonette]

[sexcromancy]

Miloš Tomić's "Book of stains, holes, and patches." Posted here by an art books blogger; unfortunately the linkback there goes out to a broken website. Tomić's instagram is here.

[image ID: three photos of an art book, open to three different page spreads. the pages are made out of pieces of textile, each stained or torn or worn through in a different way. one has the neckline of a tshirt at the top. the pages are bound into stiff endboards. end image ID.]