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Art historian Svetlana Alpers traces the idea of the studio as a retreat from the world to early-Renaissance artist Piero della Francesca, painting his fresco cycle in the San Francesco basilica while on scaffolding. There, the artist—by necessity—created in isolation, literally above the masses. In late-twentieth-century Europe, the studio was a gathering place for artists in conversation, in apartments as ornately furnished and cluttered as any Victorian drawing room. Transplanted to America, the image of the great man alone in his large, empty warehouse dominated: Jackson Pollock in his barn is perhaps the prototype. Women in the studio mainly served as models, professor Mary Bergstein writes, "objectified as belonging to the artist's orbit of personal creations and possessions." More recently, Andy Warhol's Factory, postmodern critiques, and artist collectives have eroded the myth of the male genius working alone. In the 1970s, John Baldessari, who taught the legendary "Post-Studio Art" course at CalArts, quit traditional painting and said, "God forbid that it leaked out that [I] had a studio," demonstrating how outmoded the place had become. For today's transnational artist, writes art theorist Lane Relyea, the studio is little more than "a mailing address and a doorstep, thus providing the means for one to show up within the [global art] network."

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harry bertoia bronze screen

alh for wsj / via a bit late
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Container List is the blog of the Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives, featuring weekly graphics and ephemera from the design archives at the School of Visual Arts.


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nice fake calder mobile in slide show frame # 2/7


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Lawrence Weiner's house and studio

via chuck n fb
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metal and wood cube tables at canvas


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early coca-cola recipe gone viral

via adman fb
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they're called grawlixes mother fuckers


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This month, eight families from the Lafitte public housing development trundled their belongings into brand-new apartments in an instant neighborhood dubbed Faubourg Lafitte, erected on the site of the demolished brick complex in the 6th Ward.
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flora grubb gardens going vertical

more vertical gardens
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Silver Lake’s Reservoir Of Black Balls Makes National Geographic

the current this old house build alerted me to this odd practice.
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via reference library
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you winsome your lose some.


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electric rat rod


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so-cal e-rod


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Au revoir Janette Laverrière

use value
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G: An Avant-Garde Journal of Art, Architecture, Design, and Film, 1923-1926

via hyperion fb
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roseto pa house and garage $159.9k 5,076 sf

pics
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1949 Buick Roadmaster Sedanette


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feldenkrais method


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kubrick boxes

via vz
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When Ken Bradshaw caught the largest wave ever surfed, in 1998, he was riding on pure, single-minded passion. But that same quality—plus a deep antipathy to hype—has put him at odds with the increasingly crowded, commercialized world of big-wave surfing. On Oahu’s famed North Shore, the author learns about the 58-year-old maverick’s record-breaking encounter with 85 feet of “Condition Black” water, the battles he still fights, and his unlikely friendship with the publicity-loving Mark Foo, who was killed on a wave he “stole” from Bradshaw.

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Prints from Basil Besler's Hortus Eystettensis [1613]

via antiques road show / wikipedia entry
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teen a go go / fort worth tx '60s teen scene documentary


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