actegratuit:

Laurent Hours 

Laurent Hours was born in Paris, where he currently works at the National School of Beaux Arts. His paintings feed on a peculiar atmosphere; he offers viewers snapshots of memory in dreamlike settings.

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artchipel:

Tumblr Monday 105 - Tumblr Artist

Jason Laferrera | on Tumblr (USA)

The textures and contours of old maps are fascinating, even the tattered and stained parts. Artist Jason Laferrera digitally manipulates cartographic materials to create fauna and fowl in poses reminiscent of field guides from a similarly early era of publication. These idealized depictions created from recycled imagery question our relationship with the boundaries we draw to divide the natural world. The patterns of forests and shores often become an animal’s feathers or fur, while the rings of topography often trace out wings or antlers. Many thanks to actegratuit for this Monday for having introduced us Jason Laferrera!

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artandopinion:

To Whom That Gong Tolls

2012

Hiroyasu Tsuri

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leslieseuffert:

Brooklyn Museum

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creativetime:

Ready for Nick Cave’s first public art project in New York City? In 2011, Cave’s Soundsuits, were exhibited as sculptures at the Seattle Art Museum and described as a “push beyond the limits of the gallery setting, and the blurring of boundaries between visual art and performance.” 

See thirty horse Soundsuits come to life in Grand Central Terminal for HEARD•NY on March 25–31!

 

Photo at Seattle Art Museum’s Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth by Daniel Spils on Flickr

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hyperallergic:

A Black Outsider Artist in a White Art World

Winfred Rembert, “All Me II” (2002), dye on carved and tooled leather, 31 1/2 x 37 3/4 in (image via

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newmanology:

Black History Month Magazines: The Black Panther

Not really a magazine, it was a weekly newspaper published by the Black Panther Party from 1967-80. Art directed by Revolutionary Artist and Minister of Culture Emory Douglas, The Black Panther covers were a combination of Douglas’s own powerful illustration, collage, high-contrast photographs, and poster-like graphics.

Many of these covers are courtesy of Babylon Falling and Emory Douglas Art, both great resources for The Black Panter covers, inside pages, posters, and graphics.

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art21:

“My figures don’t have any kind of facial features that would make you identify them racially. Scramble for Africa is based on a conference that was held in Berlin in 1884 to 1885. The European countries came together to divide up Africa—to decide who would have which trading area. And so I re-imagined it with these brainless men sitting around the table, literally brainless.”
—Yinka Shonibare MBE

IMAGES: Yinka Shonibare MBE, Scramble for Africa, 2003. Installation view at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, 2008. Production stills from the Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 5 episode, Transformation, 2009.

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blackcontemporaryart:

Shantell Martin by William Lebane

philamuseum:

Great and Mighty Artist of the Day:

David Butler
Born Good Hope, Louisiana, 1898; died Moran City, Louisiana, 1997

David Butler began making art after a series of life-changing events. His various manual labor jobs—in sawmills and road construction—ended in 1962 with a work-related injury, and his wife died in 1968. In the early 1970s, when Butler was in his mid-seventies, he began adorning his yard in Patterson, Louisiana, with colorful, cut-metal painted sculptures, mostly of fanciful subjects such as whirligigs and critters, and with decorated objects like bird feeders, mailboxes, and bicycles. Butler also made cut-metal window screens for the outside of his house, both to control the light inside and as “spirit shields” against evil forces. Butler’s work was included in the important 1982 exhibition Black Folk Art in America, 1930–1980 at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C . The works in his fanciful yard environment were eventually dispersed into galleries, museums, and private collections.

See his work in Great and Mighty Things: Outsider Art from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection, opening March 3!

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greydotmatters:

From My Paper Bag Colored Heart
Wilmer Wilson

2012

Performance with inflated paper bags. A meditation on skin, objecthood, and liminality, through the historical lens of the paper bag as an implement of colorism. Performed in relation to my sculptural installation titled Domestic Exchange.

First image taken by myself. Subsequent images by Matt Dunn / courtesy Conner Contemporary Art. 

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museumuesum:

Hank Willis Thomas

I Am a Man, 2008

Installation View at Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, 2009

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sroseart:

“Too Much Makeup”

Artist: Sheena Rose

Sweet Gossip Series

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