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Opus 217. Against the Enamel of a Background Rhythmic with Beats and Angles, Tones, and Tints, Portrait of M. Félix Fénéon in 1890, Paul Signac, 1890, MoMA: Painting and Sculpture

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. David Rockefeller Size: 29 x 36 ½" (73.5 x 92.5 cm) Medium: Oil on canvas

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/78734

exeggcute

one of my favorite this american life segments of late is about the people who played orchestra pit for phantom of the opera on broadway and how, like, a sizeable majority of them had literally been playing the show since it opened in 1988 (on broadway. I know it opened in 86 on the west end, you random pedants, but I am specifically talking about broadway musicians) because their contracts stipulated that they'd have jobs throughout the show's entire run... but nobody anticipated that phantom would become the longest-running broadway show of all time.

and none of these people wanted to walk away from a guaranteed job, so very few of them ever quit. they just kept doing the same show eight nights a week... for twenty or thirty years... and by the time it finally closed last year most of these musicians (who had been working together for DECADES) hated each other and really really fucking loathed phantom. I can't stop thinking about it. it's indescribably hellish to imagine but also the funniest thing I've ever heard in my life.

exeggcute

can you imagine.

bisexualshakespeare

[ID: excerpt from an article reading: One of my favorite stories, which should drive anyone who has every played in a band crazy-- there’s this bassoon player who has sat next to the same clarinet player since 1988. She’s convinced he plays half a note4 flat on every note he’s every played. He denies this. /]

cleverlittlefox

artist-velasco

Ahuehuete de la Noche Triste, 1885, Jose Maria Velasco

https://www.wikiart.org/en/jose-maria-velasco/ahuehuete-de-la-noche-triste-1885

tate-museum

Upright Rags A, Menashe Kadishman, 1979, Tate

Presented by Rose and Chris Prater 1979 Size: image: 864 x 521 mm Medium: Screenprint on paper

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/kadishman-upright-rags-a-p05517

artist-varo

Vegeta Vampires, Remedios Varo

redlipstickresurrected

Andy Goldsworthy (British, b. 1956, Cheshire, England, based Penpont, Scotland) info with each photo.

ex0skeletal-undead

MTG illustrations by savagegenry

artist-redon

Spirit of the Forest, 1890, Odilon Redon

detailedart

Bottle green details: Rolling Waves. Painter: Constantin Westchiloff (1877-1945).

nevver

Waters rising, Artem Chapeye

becausedragonage

yes I am the horrible creeping bag of sound that is the most worst to you! I will use my beak to mischief you and I will press B. I wobble my snake-front-body and I waggle my bag-back-body and they meet in the middle to plan a bad idea to upset you. I flap back and forth my business rear for balancing and I snapple-pap my feet all up and down the town for terrible reasons, and you don’t like it. I am the goose and you are the miserable boy with no honk. I invented my body and it was the best idea.