TruceArts

During the Olympic and Paralympic Games competing countries sign up to a Truce. We want to know what the idea of a Truce means to you today - shaking hands, putting down arms, ending a disagreement or simply making that phone call you've been putting off. Check out the work here and submit your own Truce-related videos and photos; you can do it here, or on our site! Upload and win the chance to have them shown in our online gallery and on giant screens around London in the run up to the Olympics. http://www.trucearts.org

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Miracle Of Colours by Nilofar Niri and Nursery Children

By Nilofar Niri herself: 

"This picture is a collaboration between me and nursery children. They are from international backgrounds, with different skin colors. When they started painting there were too many children and just a few brushes but amazingly without anyone tell them what to do they started using their hands instead of brushes and they managed to play without fighting for short periods of time and they were so happy. I think in a sweet way, it is a small example of truce."

[contemporaryartdaily]

Amanda Ross-Ho at MOCA

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KATE BLACKER

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SIAH ARMAJANI

[soulculture-blog]

PSA: Free Hugs at Victoria station. #lol #life #london #transport #art #instacool #photooftheday (Taken with Instagram)

[lefrancreative]

Drawing the constellations by skinnyandy on Flickr.

[earth-song]

Dryocampa rubicunda

The Rosy Maple Moth (Dryocampa rubicunda) is a North American moth in the Saturniidae family. Males have a wingspan of 32–44 mm; females of 40–50 mm. They have reddish-to-pink legs and antennae, yellow bodies and hindwings, and pink forewings with a triangular yellow band across the middle. Males have bushier antennae than females. As the name implies, rosy maple moths mainly feed on Maples, particularly Red Maple, Silver Maple, and Sugar Maple. Sometimes these moths become pests on maple trees.

Life cycle

Females lay pale yellow eggs in clusters of 20-30 on the undersides of maple leaves. After about two weeks, small gregarious caterpillarshatch. They will remain gregarious through the third instar, but the final two are solitary. The mature larvae are light green with black laterallines, red heads, and two filaments behind the head, and reach lengths of about 55 mm. When they are ready, they climb to the bottom of the host tree and pupate in shallow underground chambers. The pupae are very dark, elongated, and have small spines. The pupa ends in a small forked point. When the imago (adult) ecloses, it has small wings which it has to pump full of fluid in order for them to expand and allow for flight. Adult moths are generally nocturnal; they preferentially fly throughout the first third of the night (Fullard & Napoleone 2001). The females emit pheromones at night and attract males, which have bushier antennae to detect the pheromones.  by Wiki

[lefrancreative]

Sshhhh! by skinnyandy on Flickr.

[trucearts-blog]

This is so adorable.

[crisisgroup]

Shrinking Siberia | The Daily Beast

by Anna Nemtsova

Siberia’s population is disappearing. In a generation, if current trends continue, the vast land—one and a half times the size of China—will have fewer inhabitants than Moscow or St. Petersburg. Today, only 38 million people live in Siberia—2 million fewer than 20 years ago, according to Russia’s Institute of Demography—even though the region constitutes up to 77 percent of the nation’s landmass. Almost three quarters of Russia’s population is crowded west of the Ural Mountains, where the best and brightest of Siberia are flocking, too, away from the crumbling infrastructure, widespread corruption, and lack of opportunities in their homeland. Siberia “shows no sign of becoming the secure, modern, self-sufficient [state] that young people wish they could live in,” says Yekaterina Sokirianskaya of the International Crisis Group.

FULL ARTICLE (The Daily Beast)

Photo: Matt Hintsa/Flickr

[crisisgroup]

Students Left Behind In Pakistan’s Tribal Regions | Radio Free Europe

By Isram Alam Mohmand

FATA, Pakistan — As the fight against terrorism in Pakistan’s restive northwest rages on, one casualty has been left on the battlefield — youth education.  Schools are a popular target for militants, often because they educate girls or because their curriculum is not considered Islamic enough for the Pakistani Taliban, which wields significant influence in the region.

FULL ARTICLE (Radio Free Europe)

Photo: United Nations/Flickr

[newyorker]

In 1998, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta asked Richard Misrach to produce a body of work for their “Picturing the South” series. Misrach decided to focus on “Cancer Alley,” the Mississippi corridor that stretches a hundred and fifty miles between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, a startling landscape where antebellum mansions and current-day communities line the swamps and levees among gargantuan industrial plants that produce a quarter of America’s petrochemicals.

Over a decade later, the Museum asked Misrach to return to Cancer Alley to shoot, and then combined this new work with the original series for an exhibition and book called “Petrochemical America,” published by Aperture.

Click-through for more from Suzanne Shaheen on the exhibit, and for a slideshow featuring more images: http://nyr.kr/QgT2zT

[cavetocanvas]

Ken Price, Slate Cup, c. 1972. Photo by Fredrik Nilsen, courtesy of LACMA.

[manpodcast]

Stephanie Barron, the curator of LACMA’s new Ken Price retrospective, is the lead guest on this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast! Click here to download, here to subscribe via iTunes. See more images of Prices discussed on the show here.

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[thingsorganizedneatly]

Yves Klein

[papermagazine]

Busy running errands today for #nyfw, how about you?

[blakegopnik]

DAILY PIC: Just yesterday in this space, I went after plop art. So much public sculpture feels too big and bombastic, as art, but also too small to truly compete with the buildings and trees around it. This is Tony Rosenthal’s “5-in-1”, from 1971, installed in a neglected little plaza down the street from City Hall in New York – and somehow it doesn’t seem to suffer from those faults. It fills its space boldly without dominating it. There’s even something a touch plangent about its grand late-modernist values, viewed from our minor postmodern moment. “5-in-1” comes across as an elephant might,  grazing in a forest clearing. 

For a full visual survey of past Daily Pics visit blakegopnik.com/archive. The Daily Pic, along with more global art news, can also be found on the Art Beast page at thedailybeast.com.

[lefrancreative]

Purple by Teruhide Tomori on Flickr.

[manpodcast]

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