Marquetería Francesa by Ana of Labores Modernas

http://rcruzniemiec.tumblr.com/post/20291690511/retired-superheroes-wax-sculpture-installation

artist Gilles Barbier for Art.

hyperallergic:

Advice from an Artist: Steal Like an Artist

(via waterlili)

for Alex.  If you still are loving space.  :)

richters:

No one can hear you cry in space.

By Terry Irwin 

“I realized that it wasn’t that I was getting more balanced so much as I was getting more comfortable being out of balance.” -Janine Antoni

Janine Antoni, speaking on her 2002 piece Touch.

Accent Elimination,  Nina Katchadourian, 2005

A video piece in which Katchadourian traininng to learn her parents accent, while they learn a more neutral “US accent”.

“My foreign-born parents who have lived in the United States for over 40 years both have distinctive but hard-to-place accents that I have never been able to imitate correctly (and have not inherited). Inspired by posters advertising courses in “accent elimination,” I worked with my parents and professional speech improvement coach Sam Chwat intensively for several weeks in order to “neutralize” my parents’ accents and then teach each of them to me.”

love it.

waterlili:

let’s totally do this, art!

artmorrill:

always by corduroi

waterlili:

peter haakon thompson

Roni Horn

(I couldn’t clip this, but from 8:48 until the end is what I wish I had streaming here.  Wow.)