movingthestill:

Title: File Format Studies - JPG: Word Replacement
Artist:  Phillip Stearns

moshita:

Organ Installation

CG TOKI

internetpoetry:

macro by ianaleksanderadams

hyperallergic:

The Heart of Tibet is Being Radically Changed into a Shopping Center

The Barkhor, the circumambulation road around the Jokhang Temple. (all images courtesy Tsering…

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tumblropenarts:

Isabel Roxas: The Tohoku Series (at Liongoren Gallery, Manila, 2013)

Artist Statement

Two years ago, the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami devastated the Northeast region of Japan. As an Asian now living in abroad, I am most acutely made aware of the distance between myself and my homeland when natural disasters from back home flood the news channels. Whether it is a tsunami in Indonesia, a typhoon in the Philippines, or the recent disasters in Japan, these events stir both feelings of helplessness and distance with a great desire to contribute assistance in any way I can.

What was different about the Tohoku event was that the disaster, in a sense, made its way across the ocean to me. While much of the 5 million tons of debris from the quake sank into the Pacific, around 30% of it caught the ocean currents and made its way to the shores of North America. These object ranged from small, personal household items to fishing boats and sections of piers. There have been some heartwarming stories of the lost items being reunited with their owners, but the organic debris have also been a cause for concern for U.S. officials who are worried about the introduction of an invasive species to a totally new environment.

With this series I have documented some of these objects, along with the co-ordinates of where they washed ashore. It is interesting to me that the vast ocean, which at times makes me feel very far from home, can sometimes close the gap a little bit in surprising ways.

0rient-express:

Fenêtre sur un nouveau jour | by Gilles Monney.

whos-afraid-of-postblack-art:

“…there was an exhibition at Artist’s Space called ‘Nigger Drawings,’ which was a show by a white male artist, abstraction, and it was in charcoal, and if you called Artist’s Space, they said, ‘Well charcoal is black and black means Nigger.’….When we picketed Artist’s Space about this..the attitude of some of the people at the museum-I would say the majority-was that we were censoring an artist. But at the time, women were censored out of the system, and people of color were censored out of the system, but that, to them, wasn’t censorship. Only if you question a white male and his work, then that was censorship.”

Howardena Pindell

Cross-Streets

1988

mixed media assemblage

kiuchitatsuro:

Please May 2013 (by Tatsuro Kiuchi)

florianmeacci:

MERCY & WILD

Illustration for the company branding

www.mercyandwild.com

2012