Le Sacre

Sadness is just a -dark- love affair.

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Maxfield Parrish

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Thomas Heatherwick reveals Zeitz MOCAA art galleries carved out of Cape Town grain silo 

Thomas Heatherwick has created South Africa’s biggest art museum – by hollowing out the inside of a historic grain silo building. Described by the British designer as “the world’s tubiest building”, the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, or Zeitz MOCAA, is set to become the world’s most important exhibition space for African art.

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Jim Buckels

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Caroline Walker, Freeway, 2016

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Illustrations of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by W. Heath Robinson (1914)

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Jean-Baptiste Bertrand (1823-1887) Ophelia

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Creative agency LAPIZ has created a cloud that rains tequila for the Tourism Board of Mexico. h/t Design Faves

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It’s finally out of the kiln and ready to be taken home! But I am going to bring it back to school so it can go on display for everyone to see! I’m so glad and I love how it turned out.

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Jean-Michel Alberola, Rien [Autoportrait], 2004 Lithographie, 65 x 36, 5 cm Paris, Item éditions (éditeur et imprimeur) ©ADAGP, 2009

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Jean Benner - Salome 1899

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Werner Fuetterer as the Archangel in Faust (1926, dir. F. W. Murnau) 

“I think Murnau’s imperturbable calm in the studio was due not only to a sense of discipline, but also because he possessed that passion for ‘play’ itself which is necessary and essential to any kind of artistic activity.

For instance, I’d made a steam apparatus for the heaven scene in the Prologue to Faust. Steam was ejected out of several pipes against a background of clouds; arc-lights arranged in a circle lit up the steam to look like rays of light. The archangel was supposed to stand in front and raise his flaming sword. We did it several times, and each time it was perfectly all right, but Murnau was so caught up in the pleasure of doing it that he forgot all about time. The steam had to keep on billowing through the beams of light until the archangel – Werner Fuetterer – was so exhausted he could no longer lift his sword. When Murnau realized what had happened, he shook his head and laughed at himself, then gave everyone a break.”

-Faust art director Robert Herlth, quoted in Lotte Eisner’s Murnau. The scene Herlth is discussing is online here.