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Why I Love Scouting Apartment Lobbies in the Bronx
Art Deco aficionados may look to Manhattan and South Beach for the last vestiges of the fabled style, but our home of the Bronx is a little-known goldmine for these architectural classics. We’ve touched on this subject before, of course. Scouting NY just took it one step further with a jaunt through the surviving Art Deco buildings along the Grand Concourse. And if it weren’t for the pun police suspecting me of bad taste already, I’d tell you that I’m so jazzed about this. —MN
Calder by Matter. Publicity photograph for Pierre Matisse of Calder in his storefront studio, New York, 1936. View on Vertical Constellation with Yellow Bone. Calder with the mobile commission for the Hotel Avila Ballroom in Caracas, Venezuela, 1941. All photos by his close friend Herbert Matter. © 2013 Calder Foundation, New York
One of several beautiful studies of Native American artifacts by painter and illustrator Allen Tupper True. According to the note at the top of the page, this one depicts Crow war shields.
Sketches of Native American artifacts, 194-?. Allen Tupper True and True family papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
(via ushishir)
Derailing My Train of Thought by Thomas Wightman
Says Thomas about this project: “The final book sculpture of my major project series. Like the previous two sculptures it uses a visual metaphor to convey the emotions of obsessive-compulsive disorder, and embodies my research by visualising an expression used by a sufferer of OCD. The expression was ‘derailing my train of thought’, because the person felt that the rituals they had to perform were disrupting their day. Where the compulsions and worry would side track them from doing everyday activities.
To convey this metaphor the sculpture shows a train travelling on a journey that has become disrupted, leading it to derail from its set path. Typography was used on the tracks for the title of the piece, also type was used for the coal. In the scene it shows the coal cart tipping over where the type has become mixed up to symbolise the mixed emotions during anxiety and panic”.
Artist: Behance / Website / Previously!
Ancient Roman Dogtag,
Inscription Reads: “Hold me if I am lost and return me to my master Viventius on the estate of Callistus”
