My son Leo and I set out for a random wander along K Road and ended up becoming part of Matt Ellwood's art event at Melanie Roger Gallery. Kinda cool being handed a knife and asked to cut out a piece of a work to take away. While everyone else is watching!
melanierogergallery.com/exhibitions/...
Write accessibly!
It's so much more fun when readers understand what you've written and decide that you're wrong than when they *don't* understand but assume that you're right.
mmm telephone seats
This #ThrowbackThursday we feature a set of event displays from 1987, recorded by the NA35 experiment.
NA35 was a particle physics experiment #AtCERN, using particle beams from the SPS.Β
It studied relativistic nucleusβnucleus collisions to search for evidence of new forms of quark matter.
She discovers that the house is afflicted by caryatids. But in addition, there is a rumour of a icy hare, who hums tunelessly and who overturns potted plants.
apparatus with a cylindrical wire cage set atop what looks like a single rolling-pin handle
D104,155 - issued in 1937 for a design for a "sparkler holder." #DesignPatents
Photos from Jamie Lloyd's "Waiting for Godot" with Keanu reeves and Alex Winter are out. You know you've been curious. Discuss.
Pinball No. 4 (1977), dir. Jeff Hale, Imagination Inc.
Citizen Sleeper is melancholy, hopeful and determined, and leaves a lot to the imagination.
Stop You snivelling Creek-bed: Come rain hail And flood-water Laugh again
From βCome Rain Hailβ (1970)
βHone Tuwhare (NgΔpuhi)
#PoetryAotearoa #poetry #haiku
Akers examining one of her textiles, a long piece suspended in the middle of a room. Another textile piece is hanging on the wall behind her, and she is flanked by two low tables filled with pebbles displaying pieces of pottery.
Adela Akers with one of her textiles, 1960, from the collection of the Archives of American Art.
the 1984 LA Games
I thought Byung-Chul Han was good on this: "Through storytelling, capitalism appropriates the narrative and submits it to consumption." (The Crisis of Narration, 2024)
Field With Furrows: simple line illustration.
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From 'The Kindergarten-Primary Magazine' (1927)
βUncredited Artist
#ForgottenPrints #art #illustration
Gift of the artist
Alexander Calder, Buckle, c.1940 #artbots #moma
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136777
In the early part of the 20thC, the Swiss artist Hans Emmenegger began making recurrent themes of enigmatic, dark forest interiors, exploring the optical effects of light and colour. This work was painted in 1933.
A barricade of tyres in a mocked-up street.
Sarah Pickering, High Street Barricade, from Public Order series (2002-2005)
www.sarahpickering.co.uk/works/public...
Scavengers Reign (2023)
The best recent sci-fi show that almost no one has seen.
A black and white photograph of 66 Old Church Street as seen from the garden, with its open terraces
66 Old Church Street, Chelsea
1936
Walter Gropius and Maxwell Fry
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I think in part the higher education funding crisis and the LLM-teaching crisis actually strike at the same problem, which is that education doesn't work without a broad, society-wide sense that the *actual content* of education - not the credential - is valuable.
"I think I'm going to buy a line-trimmer"
Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
A man (30s?) in high vis is standing outside a bakery. He's just unwrapped a pie when another man (19?) walks up and starts asking questions. He holds up a finger, saying, "Later. This is pie time, mate. Pie time." and then takes a bite while making full eye contact. (4)
bunch of long dead leaves, Catula gettyi from Kaiparowits formation
βSeeds of Abundanceβ, 1990
by Indigenous Australian artist, Emily Kam Kngwarray
#EarthDay
Our job is not and cannot be policing students so that they donβt cheat. The average classroom instructor is a near-fatally overworked, underpaid contingent thought worker. Our job is to help students understand why the learning is more valuable than anything the cheating can get them.
A small figure of a rabbit carved out of wood.
π° Happy Easter to everyone celebrating!
This little rabbit netsuke is only 2.5 centimetres high. A netsuke is an ornamental toggle or counterweight used to attach small containers to the sash worn with the traditional Japanese kimono.
Photo shows a metal drawer from a filing cabinet (of extended length) standing on top of trestle legs
Photo shows the front side of a filing cabinet drawer labelled with typewritten words: 'Unknown. Height 165cm, Weight 74kg Aboriginal"
Powerful work on show at Sydney's MCA by Kamilaroi artist Warraba Weatherall, incl this piece 'Single File, 2019/2025' β a filing cabinet drawer presented like a coffin, labelled with the artist's biometrics. Colonisers' classification and archival systems as weapons of oppression and dehumanisation
Francis Ford Coppola (with scenes from his film "The Conversation") - BOTD
A block of text almost completely obscured by white shapes that have to be moved in order to read it.
Blair Johnson and Luke Williams, 'Spoilia' ("a circular narrative in 8 paragraphs")
blairjohnsonpoetry.com/spoilia/inde...
