I feel so much affection for these characters, and I feel like we’ve spent so much time with them, that it will be weird when we murder them all in the final episode, when they get centipeded in that final episode. You don’t think you’re gonna cry, but you’re gonna cry when Tracy calls middle on the centipede without really understanding how bad that is.
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Nov. 12, 1939: This photo, published shortly after the start of the Second World War, ran with this caption: “The Winged Victory of Samothrace, another great achievement of the ancient Greek sculptors, packed for removal in accordance with plans for its protection formulated far in advance of the war.” A 2009 exhibition at the Louvre showed photos documenting how art was relocated for safety during wartime. Photo: The New York Times
Look up the Monuments Men - soldiers whose job it was during the war to find and protect great works of art. Also, watch or read The Rape of Europa, all about the Nazi’s art hunting and the measures taken against them, as well as how events during WWII still affect the art world today.
via printmag:
Image of the Day: Woah! You can now download every issue of ЛЕФ (the journal of the Left Front of the Arts). Featuring covers by Rodchenko, and work by Eisenstein, Mayakovsky, and Tretyakov, among others. Big thanks to Sam Potts for the tip!
And now, here’s Paul Gaugin playing a harmonium pantsless
Taken in Paris in 1895, here’s artist Paul Gaugin sans pants playing a harmonium. Why? Because shit was crazy in Paris in the 1890s.
Many people go out of their way to avoid using cramped airplane bathrooms, but we just discovered someone who seeks them out for awesomely creative purposes:
To pass the time during long flights, artist Nina Katchadourian goes to the lavatory, adorns herself in tissue paper costume, and creates hilarious self-portrait photos in the style of Flemish Renaissance paintings. She calls the series Seat Assignment: Lavatory Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style:
While in the lavatory on a domestic flight in March 2010, I spontaneously put a tissue paper toilet cover seat cover over my head and took a picture in the mirror. The image evoked 15th-century Flemish portraiture. I decided to add more images made in this mode and planned to take advantage of a long-haul flight from San Francisco to Auckland, guessing that there were likely to be long periods of time when no one was using the lavatory on the 14-hour flight. I made several forays to the bathroom from my aisle seat, and by the time we landed I had a large group of new photographs entitled Lavatory Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style.
[via Laughing Squid]
this wins it all
Anemic Cinema (1926) is a Dadaist, surrealist, experimental film made by Marcel Duchamp.
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