Catégorie : Art and Music

Find Freedom in Any Moment – zen habits

Find Freedom in Any Moment – zen habits

By Leo Babauta One of our deepest desires is for freedom: to be free of stress, anxiety, a frustrating person, a difficult situation, financial struggles, health problems, the daily grind, distractions, feeling inadequate.  So many books, products and other paid solutions offer a version of this freedom. Escape. Peace. Mindfulness. Simplicity. Self esteem. A better […]

Source: zenhabits.net/ultimate-freedom/

Are You a Highly Sensitive Person? Here’s How to Tell

Are You a Highly Sensitive Person? Here’s How to Tell

Thirty years after Elaine Arons coined the term, HSP awareness is more relevant than ever as we are increasingly inundated with external stimuli.

Source: www.vogue.com/article/are-you-a-highly-sensitive-person-heres-how-to-tell

Nuit des Musées 2021 : 6 visites gratuites ; Paris et ses alentours

Nuit des Musées 2021 : 6 visites gratuites à Paris et ses alentours

Le soir du samedi 3 juillet, les plus grands musées ouvrent leurs portes gratuitement partout en France. L’occasion de s’offrir un bol d’art au creux de la nuit.

Source: www.vogue.fr/culture/article/nuit-des-musees-2021-visites-gratuites-paris

Vogue On The Road: A Gourmet Tour Of Wales In The Aston Martin DBX

Vogue On The Road: A Gourmet Tour Of Wales In The Aston Martin DBX

“The skies are big up here, the air fresh, and we gasped and gulped and ran with the weather over the peaks in the Aston Martin, marvelling at Wales in all its finery, and this St Anthan-bred luxury SUV, a very 21st-century Welsh dragon…”

Source: www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/aston-martin-dbx

The NFT Explain Me with Marina Galperina and Amy Whitaker

The NFT Explain Me with Marina Galperina and Amy Whitaker

On this episode of Explain Me we do a deep dive on Non-Fungible Tokens, NFTs, pronounced Nifty, but also N-F-T. Joined by guests Marina Galperina, features editor of Gizmodo, and former curator and…

Source: artfcity.com/2021/03/09/the-nft-explain-me-with-marina-galperina-and-amy-whitaker/

A Scrupulous Blue Tit Perfects Her Nest and Lays Her First Egg in a 46-Day Timelapse Recorded Inside the Roost

A Scrupulous Blue Tit Perfects Her Nest and Lays Her First Egg in a 46-Day Timelapse Recorded Inside the Roost

It turns out that blue tits are just like us: finicky about their living quarters. Captured with a camera mounted in a box near the town of Loughborough in the U.K., a highlight reel follows one of the birds as she establishes her roost with extreme care. Although female blue tits tend to buil

Source: www.thisiscolossal.com/2021/07/blue-tit-nest/

Glitches Distort Household Objects and Art Historical Figures in Sculptures by Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford

Glitches Distort Household Objects and Art Historical Figures in Sculptures by Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford

Artist Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford reenvisions classical sculptures as chaotic, glitched assemblages that piece together fragmented bits of the original work. His interpretation of « Hercules » is teeming with textured pockets of the figure’s beard and facial features that become increasingly smaller a

Source: www.thisiscolossal.com/2021/06/jeremiah-hulsebos-spofford-sculptures/

A Bookmark Illustrated by Van Gogh Has Been Discovered After 135 Years

A Bookmark Illustrated by Van Gogh Has Been Discovered After 135 Years

In 2021, it’s rare to stumble upon a work by Vincent van Gogh that hasn’t been previously identified, but researchers recently uncovered a few early drawings slipped inside one of the Dutch artist’s books. Now on view as part of Here to Stay at the Van Gogh Museum, the newly discovered bookmark has

Source: www.thisiscolossal.com/2021/06/van-gogh-bookmark/?utm_source=feedly

Immersive Installations by Liz West Convert Spaces into Glowing Arenas of Prismatic Light

Immersive Installations by Liz West Convert Spaces into Glowing Arenas of Prismatic Light

Whether nestling an iridescent tunnel inside a Georgian-style church or encircling a concrete walkway with multicolor ribbons, Liz West transforms whatever space she approaches into a dynamic field of kaleidoscopic light and shadow. The prolific British artist (previously) is known for her large-sca

Source: www.thisiscolossal.com/2021/06/liz-west-installations/?utm_source=feedly

Festival d’Avignon 2021, retour vers le futur – Les Inrocks

Festival d’Avignon 2021, retour vers le futur – Les Inrocks

Une programmation magnifique pour une 75e édition marquée par la dystopie et qui laisse espérer un été culturel rejouissant. À moins que les nouvelles formes de mobilisation d’intermittent.es ne viennent troubler la fête.

Source: www.lesinrocks.com/arts-et-scenes/festival-davignon-2021-retour-vers-le-futur-389722-05-07-2021/

New Film Shows How Gordon Parks’s Incisive Pictures of Racism Influenced Generations of Artists

New Film Shows How Gordon Parks’s Incisive Pictures of Racism Influenced Generations of Artists

The documentary is currently screening at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.

Source: www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/gordon-parks-a-choice-of-weapons-documentary-review-1234596045/

Jeff Koons in 5 kitsch and provocative works

Jeff Koons in 5 kitsch and provocative works

Garish colours, hedonistic aesthetics with a whiff of scandal… Since Wednesday May 19th, twenty pieces by Jeff Koons have invaded the Mucem in Marseille for the first solo exhibition of the New York artist’s work in France since his major retrospective at the Centre Pompidou seven years ago. The perfect opportunity to look back at five pieces by a man who has made kitsch both an aesthetic and democratic principle.

Source: www.numero.com/en/art/jeff-koons-mucem-collection-pinault