Universal Ave.

Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.

[ardor-mohr]

“History decays into images, not into stories.”

“Tarih parçalandığında imgelere bölünür, hikâyelere değil.”

— Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project, [N11,4]

[thinkingimages]

Gilles Berquet | ECLIPSES, STARS AND PLANETS (2010- 2011)

[hotcommunist-deactivated2019032]

[5starbando]

[artist-dechirico]

The tower, Giorgio de Chirico

Medium: oil,canvas

[minimal7lethal5dose213-deactiva]

[just-shower-thoughts]

Trojan condoms are named after inhabitants of a city that let a foreign object filled with something dangerous come inside. Precisely what a condom is supposed to prevent.

[mythologyofthepoetandthemuse]

Pleiades, Max Ernst, 1920.

[wanderingnewyork]

Buildings on Madison Avenue in Midtown Manhattan.

[mentaltimetraveller]

Yves Klein

Untitled Blue Sponge Sculpture (SE 238), 1959

Lévy Gorvy

[frillmag]

New order.

[zzzze]

Ezra Stoller Interior of the new Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York , 1960 Silver print

[ssv-normandy]

when people casually mention something you’re completely obsessed with and it takes every fuckin ounce of your self control not to propel yourself into the stars and scream for the rest of eternity about how much you love the thing

[queen-haiz]

when u find a girl cover of a song and she didn’t change the pronouns to make it straight

[thinkingimages]

Richard Starbuck

Citing the paranormal, horror films and science fiction among his inspirations, the British artist Richard Starbuck explains, “I have always been fascinated with various underground belief systems, from Ufology to Cryptozoology. It’s not so much that I believe in them, more of a fascination with the social and psychological systems of belief which underpin them. I wanted to create something that was alien and mysterious.”

[persimmondreams]

Under-appreciated Korean musician 1: Jiha Park

As a multiinstrumentalist who plays the piri (bamboo flute), yanggeum (vertical string instrument), and many more, she traverses genres from minimalist composition and modern jazz to ballads. Her more ambient tracks are reminiscent of Japanese minimalism that reinstated the meditative qualities of traditional instruments like the koto (admittedly brought to attention by the subtle orientalism of European-American modernist music). 

Her new album, Communion, is definitely worth a try 

[ardor-mohr]

“When is a painting finished? Not when it finally corresponds to something already existing – like the second shoe of a pair – but when the foreseen ideal moment of it being looked at is filled as the painter feels or calculates it should be filled. The long or short process of painting a picture is the process of constructing the future moments when it will be looked at. In reality, despite the painter’s ideal, these moments cannot be entirely determined. They can never be entirely filled by the painting. Nevertheless the painting is entirely addressed to these moments.

… Paintings are prophecies received from the past, prophecies about what the spectator is seeing in front of the painting at that moment. Some prophecies are quickly exhausted – the painting loses its address; others continue.”

— John Berger, “Painting and time”, The Sense of Sight (1985)