Escaped horses, one covered in blood, galloping through the streets of London (2024) photog. Jordan Pettitt

#TurtleTuesday :

Hunt Slonem (American, b. 1951) Turtle Tondo, 1986 Oil on canvas, D 36 in. (91.44 cm)

Mark Rothko, No. 1, 1961

Oil and acrylic on canvas.

Taken at National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Gift of the Mark Rothko Foundation; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/Art Resource N.Y.

Eugene Seguy, Winged Patterns I

"CUCKMERE RIVER" BILL BRANDT // 1963 [gelatin silver print | U/D]

Chernobyl accident: Today is the 38th anniversary of the largest man-made disaster of the last century.

A cloud of radioactive dust hit Ukraine, Belarus, the Russian Federation and parts of Europe. After the accident, 8.5 million people were exposed to radiation.

Painting “CHAES, April 25, 1986”, V. Mykhalchuk

“Young Woman”, 2003 by Norman Engel

Paul Neberra

Paper sculpture by Irving Harper Follow Souda on Tumblr

Maxim Mamsikov, "Hole". 1993. Canvas, oil. 130 × 140 cm, Kyiv

The work "Hole" was created under the influence of psychotropic substances, which the artist tried for the first time in his life. In this work, Mamsikov wanted to use painting to illustrate a previously unknown physical experience.

The history of art in architecture or „Kunst am Bau“ in Germany dates back to the Weimar Republic and the Roaring Twenties: as a consequence of the dire economic situation of artists after WWI the interior ministry in 1928 decided to stipulate the inclusion of artists in the artistic configuration of public buildings and to allocate a certain amount of the total building sum to art. After WWII and in view of the again often tense financial situation of artists the German parliament rekindled with this kind of cultural sponsorship and in 1950 adopted legislative measures to include art and artists in public projects. Interestingly and basically at the same time the government of the GDR did the same. Seventy years later the Federal Ministry of the Interior took this double anniversary as point of departure for a retrospective view at a long history of art in architecture in both states: alongside a traveling exhibition the Deutscher Kunstverlag in 2020 published the lavishly illustrated catalogue „70 Jahre Kunst am Bau in Deutschland“ that follows the exhibition’s structure and presents art in architecture in a variety of more or less publicly accessible buildings from federal ministries to military facilities. Artworks in the latter context are a particularly interesting feature since they can only rarely be visited by the public at large. In addition the catalogue also provides information about the development of art in architecture in both German states before and after the fall of the Berlin wall and sheds light on how the changing courses of time influenced art in architecture. The result is a comprehensive retrospective that through its multi-perspective view on the topic in both German states addresses differences and similarities and brings to light a rich heritage that is worth discovering!

Aimé Morot - Le Bon Samaritain

For #WorldPenguinDay 🐧:

Norbertine von Bresslern-Roth (Austrian, 1891-1978) Penguins, n.d. colored linocut, 23.4 x 17.5 cm

Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1945 oil on canvas 39 1/4 x 31 1/4 in. Collection Kate Rothko Prizel Catalogue Raisonne Number: 276 Estate Number: 3163.45 © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS), 

Niklaus Stoecklin, Die Gottesanbeterin, 1953

“Darkness will always give you an opportunity to create your own light”

Iain Thomas