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Jules Guérin (French, 1860-1910, b. Madrid, Spain) - University of New York, Century Magazine, 1902  Paintings: Watercolors

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Swedish leaders troll Trump without saying a word

Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Isabella Lövin on Friday signed sweeping new climate change legislation while posing for a photograph which appeared unambiguously to be a dig at Trump’s administration.

The ambitious new climate change law promises zero net greenhouse gas emissions in Sweden by 2045.

Lövin appeared to replicate the now-viral photo of Trump, surrounded by men, signing an anti-abortion executive order. Instead, her photo exclusively featured women. Read more.

[nprbooks]

Poet, author and icon Gertrude Stein was born on this day in 1874. 

Stein loved to sit for the artists she knew – a few years ago, there were two concurrent exhibitions of those images at museums in San Francisco, and our own Laura Sydell went to see them – you can find her story here.

– Petra

Top image: Man Ray/Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery/Contemporary Jewish Museum

Center left: Felix Edouart Vallotton/Courtesy of The Baltimore Museum of Art/Contemporary Jewish Museum

Center right: Man Ray/Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery/Contemporary Jewish Museum

Bottom: George Platt Lynes/Baltimore Museum of Art/Contemporary Jewish Museum

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Reaching the City of the Dead requires a three-hour drive, taking you down a dangerous and hidden road befitting a journey to this mystifying destination.

Read more or add to your travel wish list >

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Scans from the book “Der Fels ist mein Haus”, or The Rock is My Home, a 1970′s survey by Werner Blaser of historic stone architecture in Swiss Villages. Those dry-stack cantilevered stone stairs in the last two images are incredible. 

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gio ponti - casa marmont, via gustavo modena 16, milano, 1933-34

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The Palais Royal Gardens, Paris, 1959. Henri Cartier Bresson.Gelatin silver print

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DER SPIEGEL's February cover

https://boingboing.net/2017/02/03/der-spiegels-february-cover.html

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cinéma Rex de Guérigny Nièvre toujours actif

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House No 19 (1927) at Weissenhof-Estate in Stuttgart, Germany, by Bruno Taut. Demolished in 1959/60.

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Consejo Municipal, Barquisemeto, Venezuela,  a: Jesus Tenreiro-Degwitz, c: Venezuela, y: 1969

[currentsinbiology]

This Felt Artist Turns Fabric into Organic, Alien Creations | The Creators Project

An ancient fabric, felt can also be manufactured into unusual styles; creating limitless works of art that stretch and inspire the imagination. Influenced by nature, Dutch artist Marjolein Dallinga uses felt as her primary medium, creating strange structures like toadstools, caterpillars, and spore-ridden, plant-like structures that appear lifelike when placed in natural environments. Each of her handcrafted creations mimics corals or mold-like matter, appear as ethereal and otherworldly as they do organic.

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House in the Orchard in Prague

Šépka Architects’ House in the Orchard is located on a northern, inclined plot in Prague – Kyje, from which there is a nice view into the valley, there are currently six full-grown trees. The proposed building of a family house attempts with its small size and character to incorporate itself among these trees. In brief, it would be possible to label the concept as ‘a house in an orchard’.

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A Pair of Leather Clogs Vincent van Gogh - 1889 Van Gogh Museum - Amsterdam (Netherlands) Painting - oil on canvas Height: 32 cm (12.6 in.), Width: 40 cm (15.75 in.)

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San Francisco 1967. Market Street.

Scanned from slide by Nolan Pelletier.

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Stefan Kürten (German, b. 1963), From Here to Eternity, 2004. Oil and gold/bronze on canvas, 56 x 74 in.

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Peter Gardiner (Australian, b. 1965), Ravensworth (Swamp Lantern III), 2012, oil on Canvas