Old Tree

May 17, 2021

Pamela Rosenkranz’s recent commission for the Highline, New York, is a stunning, vibrant and mythic sculpture of a red-pink tree. Old Tree references the myths of ancient trees connecting heaven and earth, but set within the concrete, glass, tar and steel of the city, it’s a stark reminder of the blood and roots of what makes this world liveable and beautiful. Trees are fundamental to life, and Old Tree wonderfully connects the blood, vessels and tissues of the human circulatory system with that of the tree which sustains our lives. And it’s a reciprocal relationship.

Starry Beach

May 16, 2021

In 2020, a’strict, the art division of the Korean digital design group d’strict, created this amazing and hypnotic immersive art installation, Starry Beach.

First shown in Kukje Gallery, Korea, the digital artists of d’strict/a’strict explore the intersection of humans and technology, especially in light of the transformation of digital technologies during the pandemic. Starry Beach is a surreal landscape created in a black box space, engulfing the viewer in a synesthetic experience of encountering massive waves on a beach under a starlit night. The inspiration was “the complexity of nature, in particular the diverse visual and sonic characteristics of water.”

cupid

April 29, 2021

Great mural by Spanish duo PichiAvio, melding contemporary street art with classical, Cupid, (2021) painted in Grañén is a rural village in the province of Huesca (north Spain).

I LOVE YOU EARTH

April 22, 2021

For Earth Day Yoko Ono created a series of billboards in collaboration with Serpentine Gallery across the UK. Ono said this about the project: "There are so many of us in the world who are now awakened, ready to act to save our world. So, let’s work together to save this planet. Together. That’s how we will change the world. We change, and the world changes. Have trust in what you can do. Have trust in how fast we can change our world for the better. Why? Because we have to. Believe that we are one and together we will make it. Love is what connects all lives on Earth.”

sky wonders

April 18, 2021

Photo: by Ewelina Dziewiela (@ewelinadziewiela)

Just wanted to share this spectacular sky featuring polar stratospheric clouds in Iceland.

the end of the tunnel

April 9, 2021

A painting of hope from SETH (@sethglobepainter): "Le bout du tunnel" / "The end of the tunnel", Paris, 2021.

reading is sexy...

April 7, 2021

Totally agree! Artwork by WRDSMTH (@wrdsmth).

A Yoshitomo Nara Day

April 1, 2021

Peace of mind.

Sit Still

March 30, 2021

A short dance work directed by Vincent René-Lortie in collaboration with Jacob Jonas The Company featuring seven-year-old Adeline, alone in a vacant school and her “intimate and exhaustive journey of self-expression as she navigates her emotions through Krump.” Krump is a free-form style of street dance with Afro-diasporic roots, popular in the United States. Adeline’s adaptation is quietly powerful, the film heart-wrenching and poetic.

the acorn is happy to become an oak

March 28, 2021

Handwritten note by Vivienne Westwood, 2019

Wise words from the iconic artist/designer/activist Vivienne Westwood:

“The acorn is happy to become an oak
— Aristotle.
He defines happiness as fulfilling your potential. Follow your deep interest (forget yourself) and become who you are.”

Griffon

March 28, 2021

A mythical griffon photographed in the wilds of Paris! Wonderful paste-up by SONAC (@sonac.artwork) of the fabled half-eagle, half-lion creature imagined and written about for centuries by authors such as Herodotus, Pliny, Marco Polo, Dante and Jorge Luis Borges. And magically brought to life here.

El Dorado

March 22, 2021

Artwork: Choker, album Peak, 2017 — Artwork: Choker, album *Peak*, 2017

Grand theft auto and love gone wrong—El Dorado, a brilliant song by Choker from his 2017 album Peak. Check it out!

Godzilla VS OwlKitty

March 20, 2021

Something hilarious. I’m a fan of OwlKitty (aka Lizzie) @owl_kitty, and the latest parody of Godzilla VS Kong is hilarious.

JR's Palazzo Strozzi

March 19, 2021

Artwork: Paste-up by JR (@jr), Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 2021

Artist JR has created a stunning trompe l’oeil paste-up creating a massive opening in the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, revealing significant artworks such as Boticelli’s The Birth of Venus, housed in museums that so many have been deprived of seeing because of the pandemic. The project is funded by the Palazzo Strozzi Future Arts Programme that supports contemporary art. Florence is one of my favourite cities in the world, so JR’s artwork and words resonate:

“They say the museums are closed. But it's up to us to open them. Here is Florence, the city of Boticelli, Donatello, Machiavelli and Dante, we opened the Palazzo Strozzi. These last few months, we have been deprived from the possibility to be together ... but we still have the freedom to dream, to create, to envision the future. Maybe, it's not much, but we have that!”

creation/lifework

March 17, 2021

Inspiring words from artist/designer Yohji Yamamoto:

"Creation is lifework, creation is how...you spend your life, you cannot divide life and the creation, it’s impossible. Shut your eyes, close your ears, don’t use your brain, use your heart, your soul."