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rothko: no.4, no.6, no.8. 1964

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This is the only terracotta warrior that was found completely intact. Note the detail on the bottom of his shoe, showing that grip and traction were considered in footwear even 2,200 years ago.

The Terracotta Army is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China. It is a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210–209 BCE with the purpose of protecting him in his afterlife.

The figures, dating from approximately the late 200s BCE, were discovered in 1974 by local farmers in Lintong County, outside Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.

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Meditating monks at Pangour Falls; Dalat, Vietnam

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“To travel—to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the globe, observing new lands, seas, peoples, and ideas with insatiable appetite, to see everything for the first time and for the last time,”

— Nikos Kazantzakis, tr. by P. A. Bien, from “Report To Greco,” publ. c. 1961

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Artist Stephen Wiltshire draws Mexico City from memory

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Into the Unknown.

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hollow.sun

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“There’s a legend about a Chinese painter who was asked by the emperor to paint a landscape so pristine that the emperor can enter it. He didn’t do a good job, so the emperor was preparing to assassinate him. But because it was his painting, legend goes, he stepped inside and vanished, saving himself. I always loved that little allegory as an artist. Even when it is not enough for others, if it is enough for you, you can live inside it.”

— Ocean Vuong, from an interview with Zoë Hitzig in Prac Crit

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Olga Grishenkova @Yulia Mikheeva

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A young couple dance the night away in the dilapidated lobby of a hotel. 1994, La havana, Cuba. Peter Ginter.

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Venice - Italy (by perlaroques)