magictransistor:

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (月岡 芳年), Bats and Umbrellas (コウモリやパラソル); Chushingura (Treasury of Loyal Retainers), Fifth Act, c. 1882.

(via ipokeholes)

shihlun:

Walead Beshty’s FedEx Sculptures series(2005 - present).

Walead Beshty constructs glass vitrines that are the exact dimensions of a FedEx box, and he then places the glass boxes into a FedEx box and ships it to the exhibition site. The glass sculptures then show the wear and tear of its travels through “space and time.”. This cracked surface is supposed to represent a record of the sculpture’s “hidden life” as though the sculpture were an exposure of a photograph. The FedEx boxes the sculpture is delivered in then becomes the base for the artwork. Beshty then gives the sculptures a title which consists of a record of the journey the box took to arrive at the exhibition.

7knotwind:

All that glitters is not gold-

Often have you heard that told.
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold.
Gilded tombs do worms infold.
Had you been as wise as bold,
Young in limbs, in judgment old,
Your answer had not been enscrolled.
Fare you well, your suit is cold.
― William Shakespeare

DAMIEN HIRST
FENG FENG
TERRENCE KOH
SYLVIE FLEURY
YOAN CAPOTE
CHRISTIAN TRIEBSCH
PAT STEIR
RONI HORN
EL ANATSUI
DAVID BROOKS

(via sevenknotwind)

catsbeaversandducks:

Cat Circles, the amazing phenomenon in which a cat will deliberately sit in a circle on the floor.

Photos via Reddit