LOVE IS NOT ENOUGH

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[wizardsisananimal]

did you make sure to make lots of mistakes today ? from which to learn and grow ^_^ ?

[ymutate]

Brian Haberlin (American, born 1963)

Pygmalion, 2025

Watercolor on paper

21 × 14 in (53.3 × 35.6 cm)

Private collection

[naamahdarling]

Watercolor??????

[duel-of-the-dolls]

Tournament of the Tonner Dolls: Great Eras of Fashion (Final Round)

Which doll is the best?

A Slight Chill

Milday

Remaining time: 6 days 20 hours

[worldsandemanations]

John O'Brien for NEW YORKER magazine, 1991.

[met-gala-tournament]

Round 1 - 2026 (Costume Art / Fashion is Art) - Match 78 of 128

Emma Chamberlain (Mugler), left

"“I’m somebody who really believes that fashion is art,” Chamberlain said. In envisioning her look, she took inspiration from both her family and her lifelong love of art. “My dad is an oil painter and a watercolor painter, and I grew up in a very creative household with art all over my house,” she said. For Chamberlain, paintings—and paint itself—are nostalgic and comforting. She and Ellner wanted her gown to feel like one, incorporating textures, colors, and themes from some of her favorite works. “There is sort of this watercolor feel, and I love watercolor painting,” she said. “But then also there’s a creepy, sort of ominous undertone to the gown, like the way that it moves. And that is very much my taste in art.” To begin the custom design process, Chamberlain and Ellner sent art references (including works by Van Gogh and Munch) to Castro Freitas and the Mugler team, then had a three-hour conversation to talk through ideas. Ellner also selected archival Mugler looks as influences, including a butterfly dress from 1997. ... The result is a stunning gown, designed by Castro Freitas and hand-painted by artist Anna Deller-Yee, that literally turned Chamberlain’s body into a canvas. It’s a feeling she loves. “I really am someone who enjoys fashion the most when I get to be a complete blank canvas,” she said. The dress took Deller-Yee 40 hours to paint, working with 30 base colors, and four days to dry." (x)

vs. Ben Platt (Tanner Fletcher), right

"Ben Platt, the Tony-winning actor and singer, opted for a custom hand-painted and embroidered Tanner Fletcher suit on Monday night—simultaneously nodding to the night’s theme and a canonical piece of musical theater. His look referenced A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884–1886) by Georges Seurat—the work that inspired Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Sunday in the Park With George—with scattered, almost pointillist detailing across the fabric." (x)

Whose outfit was better?

Emma Chamberlain

Ben Platt

Remaining time: 2 days 19 hours

[historyarchaeologyartefacts]

The Golden Gauntlet, Henri III of France’s armour (detail), c.1550 [564x624]

[abhix7]

never cry wolf

[thatpollguy]

How much do you like this shade of purple?

I love it

I like it

It's okay I guess

I dislike it

I hate it

I'm colourblind or visually impaired and unable to perceive this colour

Remaining time: 6 days 10 hours

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Came across this art installation, Liza Lou's Kitchen, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC. It's a kitchen made of tiny glass beads, that artist Liza Lou did, taking 5 yrs. to complete, from 1991 - 1996.

My favorite part is the sink.

Details of a recipe book.

All the details in tiny glass beads.

Love the pie in the oven.

Love this so much.

No wonder it took 5 yrs.

https://whitney.org/collection/works/34855?

[loosejournal]

“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling”

— Oscar Wilde

[mental-food]

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.

-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

[recursive-rupture]

Faces along the bar Cling to their average day: The lights must never go out, The music must always play, All the conventions conspire To make this fort assume The furniture of home; Lest we should see where we are, Lost in a haunted wood, Children afraid of the night Who have never been happy or good.

September 1, 1939, W.H. Auden

[vidoxi]

Truth, like love and sleep, resents Approaches that are too intense

W.H. Auden

[yeahimwiththeband]

“Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth indifference is the least We have to dread from man or beast. How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me. Admirer as I think I am Of stars that do not give a damn, I cannot, now I see them, say I missed one terribly all day. Were all stars to disappear or die, I should learn to look at an empty sky And feel its total dark sublime, Though this might take me a little time.”

—

The More Loving One

W. H. Auden

[byronicist]

"All I have is a voice / To undo the folded lie, / The romantic lie in the brain / Of the sensual man-in-the-street / And the lie of Authority / Whose buildings grope the sky: / There is no such thing as the State / And no one exists alone; / Hunger allows no choice / To the citizen of the police; / We must love one another or die."

W.H. Auden, September 1, 1939 (1939)

[plotinuslovemachine]

  Nothing is given: we must find our law.     Great buildings jostle in the sun for domination;     Behind them stretch like sorry vegetation     The low recessive houses of the poor.     We have no destiny assigned us:     Nothing is certain but the body; we plan     To better ourselves; the hospitals alone remind us     Of the equality of man.

W.H. Auden, from In Time of War

[step-up-off-your-knees]

“If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me.”

- W. H. Auden, The More Loving One (1957)