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Met Museum Highlights 4/3/14

Qui Anxiong
New Classic of Mountains and Seas I, 2008
Woodblock print, ink on paper

Tangtan: There is a beast in the western lands with a body like a bull. Its head is connected directly to its back and its body is covered in armor-like scales. It has no feet but moves rapidly on its belly and its straight snout erupts fire. It is called "Tangtan" (Tank).
Qui Anxiong
New Classics of Mountains and Seas I, 2008
Woodblock print, ink on paper

Tingdu: There is a large beast in the deep, dark waters of the North that dives several kilometers under the ocean. Its body is black and its skin is hard. Its eyes are on the tops of the back fins Its back has holes from which small fish can leap up beyond the clouds. It is called "Tingdu" (Trident submarine).
Yang Yongliang
View of Tide, 2008
Inkjet Print

Below it are portions of Zhao Mengfu's Ten Thousand Li of Yangzi River from the Song Dynasty (1127-1279) on which it is based.
Yang Yongliang
View of Tide [Detail]
Mishka Henner
Staphorst Ammunition Depot, Overijssel, from the series Dutch Landscapes, 2011
Inkjet print

Locations important to Dutch national security were rendered into a mosaic pattern on Google Maps at the behest of the government.

Brooklyn Museum Highlights 12/27/13

From the exhibition WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY

Dmitri Baltermants
Tchaikovsky, 1945 (Red Army seizure of Berlin)
Gelatin silver print
Vo Anh Khanh
A Cambodian guerrilla is carried to an improvised operating room ina  mangrove swamp in this Viet Cong haven on the Ca Mau Peninsula, 1970
Messenger pigeon released from a British tank, France 1918

MoMA Highlights 3/29/13

Georges Vantongerloo
Rapport des Volumes
1924


Lebbeus Woods
Lower Manhattan
Ink drawing
1999
Sophie Tottie
Written Language (line drawings), # V and # VI
India ink on paper
2008

Sophie Tottie
Written Language (line drawings), # V [detail]
India ink on paper
2008

Anatole de Baudot
Project for a great public hall
Model in cardboard, paper, and cloth
c. 1900

Guggenheim Highlights 12/3/12

Pablo Picasso
Le Crâne (Tête de mort)
Bronze
1943

Picasso created this skull during the Nazi occupation of Paris. Not to sound obsessed but it looks like something Mike Mignola could have made.

MoMA Highlights 12/1/12

Atsuko Tanaka
Drawing after Electric Dress
Crayon on paper
1956

This inspired me to cover a whole wall of our apartment with red crayon.


Haus-Rucker-Co.
City 47 Project
Cut and pasted silver gelatin photographs with graphite mounted on board
1967


Diller + Scofidio
Blur Building, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
1998-2003


Katsuhiko Narita
Sumi
1969

Kitadai Shozo
Mobile (Mobiru) Wood and Japanese paper
1956
Superstudio
The First City from Twelve Ideal Cities
Photolithograph
1971

Twelve Ideal Cities is a wry comment on twentieth-century modernist utopias and it represents, the architects have written, "the supreme achievement of twenty thousand years of civilization." In The First City, or 2,000-Ton City, cubic cells stacked atop one another form a continuous building that stretches across a green, undulating landscape. Each cell is equipped with technology capable of accommodating all human desires and physiological needs. In this city, humans are in a state of equality and death no longer exists, but if an inhabitant tries to rebel against this ideal state, the ceiling of his or her cell will descend with a two-thousand-ton force obliterating the dissenter and making way for a new perfect citizen, This dystopian scenario originated in a critique of modern ideals of planning, rationalization, and consumerism; it uses architecture as a device that, like literature, can express political viewpoints about society.




Bernard Tschumi
The Manhattan Transcripts Project, New York, New York
Introductory panel to Episode 3: The Tower (The Fall)

Photographic reproduction with colored synthetic laminate
1980

ICP Highlights 7/29/12

[Check for two murders], 1939
Weegee
[Accident on upper roadway of Grand Central Station, New York], 1944

Weegee
Balcony seats at a murder

November 16, 1939

"Speaking of Pictures . . .," LIFE, April 12, 1937, pp. 8–9

The Getty Center Highlights 6/14/12

Charles Ray
Boy with Frog
Painted fiberglass
2009

Arnold Genthe
Edna St. Vincent Millay
About 1917

Years later, Millay asked, "Why is it that the girls of so many of our best families insist upon getting all safety-pinned up into several yards of mosquito-netting and standing about on somebody's golf-links while Arnold Genthe takes their photograph?"

René Magritte
La Folie des Grandeurs
Bronze
1967

Based upon one of his earlier paintings with the same name

Met Museum Highlights 5/12/12

Albrecht Dürer
Six Pillows
Pen and brown ink
1493

Pair of eyes
Probably Greek
Bronze, marble, frit, quartz, and obsidian
5th century B.C. or later

Nicolas Poussin
Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun
Oil on canvas
1658

Chatelaine
Gorham Manufacturing Company
Silver, red glass, and black beads
1887

Marble anthropoid sarcophagus
Graeco-Phoenician
Last quarter of the 5th century B.C.

Edward Weston
Nude on Sand, Oceano
1936

From the current exhibition Naked Before the Camera


Francesca Woodman
Blueprint for a Temple
Diazo collage
1980

Philly Museum of Art Highlights 4/8/12

Zoe Strauss
Half House, Camden, NJ, 2008

Zoe Strauss
Lights in Chinatown, Philadelphia, 2005

Zoe Strauss
Mom Were Ok, Biloxi, MS, 2005
Lee Friedlander
New Orleans
1969

Cy Twombly
Shades of Eternal Night
1978

MoMA Highlights 2/23/12

Diego Rivera
Indian Warrior
Water based paint on plaster fresco mounted on cement
1931

Eugène Atget
Parc de Sceaux, mars, 8 h. matin
Gelatin silver printing-out-paper print
1925

Eugène Atget
Parc de Sceaux, juin, 7 h. matin
Gelatin silver printing-out-paper print
1925

Eugène Atget
Parc de Sceaux, mars, 8 h. matin
Gelatin silver printing-out-paper print
1925

Eugène Atget
Parc de Sceaux, avril, 7 h. matin
Gelatin silver printing-out-paper print
1925

Eugène Atget
Parc de Sceaux, mai, 8 h. matin
Gelatin silver printing-out-paper print
1925

Eugène Atget
Parc de Sceaux
Gelatin silver printing-out-paper print
1925

Eugène Atget
Parc de Sceaux, mai, 8 h. matin
Gelatin silver printing-out-paper print
1925





Eugène Atget
Parc de Sceaux
Gelatin silver printing-out-paper print
1925

Eugène Atget
Parc de Sceaux, mai, 7 h. matin
Gelatin silver printing-out-paper print
1925

Eugène Atget
Parc de Sceaux, juin, 7 h. matin
Gelatin silver printing-out-paper print
1925