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    ccooll-blog: CCOOLL’s curated Hieronymus outfit Best gift for the art history nerd on your holiday shopping list: a complete  Hieronymus Bosch outfit. EDIT: Here’s a link to the Amazon listing for a Bosch T-shirt, in case you actually want to buy this.

    ccooll-blog:

    CCOOLL’s curated Hieronymus outfit

    Best gift for the art history nerd on your holiday shopping list: a complete  Hieronymus Bosch outfit.

    EDIT: Here’s a link to the Amazon listing for a Bosch T-shirt, in case you actually want to buy this.

    Posted on Tuesday, December 4th 2012

    Reblogged from

    parkavenuearmory:

    “How do you tell the other story? As an artist, you’re always trying to figure out how you do give voice - in some way or another - to something that’s there, but that’s not necessarily visible.”
    - Ann Hamilton, on the inspiration behind indigo blue at SFMOMA in 2007

    Posted on Sunday, December 2nd 2012

    Reblogged from Park Avenue Armory

    kadist:

    Sán Art presents “Poetic Politic” at Kadist SF

    Photos by Mariko Reed

    Posted on Sunday, December 2nd 2012

    Reblogged from KADIST

    photohandbook:

    Photographer Naoya Hatakeyama explains his approach to landscape photography in relation to the aesthetic concepts the beautiful and the sublime.

    Shout out to the SFMOMA youtube page for always having kickass videos of artist talks!

    Posted on Saturday, December 1st 2012

    Reblogged from PHOTO HANDBOOK

    WATCH LIVE: Performance at the Periphery: Frank Smigiel, Wilson Díaz, and Ana María Millán. Roberto Varea, Rolf Abderhalden and Antanas Mockus.

    Posted on Saturday, December 1st 2012

    Tags sfmoma live art google hangout six lines of flight museum performance herethere

    Throughout his career, Jasper Johns has created over 180 works with numbers as their primary subject. “By detaching numerical signs from their usual context, Johns focuses on their essence both as familiar signposts that permeate contemporary life and as potently charged entities embedded in memory.” - Roberta BernsteinImage: Installation view, Jasper Johns: Seeing with the Mind’s Eye.

    Throughout his career, Jasper Johns has created over 180 works with numbers as their primary subject. 

    “By detaching numerical signs from their usual context, Johns focuses on their essence both as familiar signposts that permeate contemporary life and as potently charged entities embedded in memory.” - Roberta Bernstein

    Image: Installation view, Jasper Johns: Seeing with the Mind’s Eye.

    Posted on Saturday, December 1st 2012

    Tags jasper johns sfmoma san francisco numbers art modern art

    kadist: Here, There & Elsewhere is a collaboration between SFMOMA and seven other Bay Area art institutions (including Kadist SF). It aims to explore questions and themes presented in the exhibition Six Lines of Flight, through a series of discussions, encounters, performances, and screenings. Watch part of our Here, There, and Elsewhere festival LIVE! Click here - we’ll be live-streaming until 5:30pm today.

    kadist:

    Here, There & Elsewhere is a collaboration between SFMOMA and seven other Bay Area art institutions (including Kadist SF). It aims to explore questions and themes presented in the exhibition Six Lines of Flight, through a series of discussions, encounters, performances, and screenings.

    Watch part of our Here, There, and Elsewhere festival LIVE! Click here - we’ll be live-streaming until 5:30pm today.

    Posted on Saturday, December 1st 2012

    Reblogged from KADIST