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David Lynch must have composed this Google Street View shot from inside the Detroit Zoo: A woman readjusts her bra, a kid is apparently about to grab her mom’s boob, and a hot dog has just plunged into the water above.

La Maison sans Escaliers (The Stairless House)

Built in 1939, this housing unit does not possess a lift or stairs, but a slightly sloping helicoidal gradient. This stairless house has a twin building on the adjacent street number: both consist of 36 apartments over six floors.

The stairless house ! The house of tomorrow. Why ? Stairs are a barbaric way of  climbing floors. Stair steps force the same pace on all: on children and elders alike, on the ill and on the healthy. With our tilted rising arcade, everyone walks a step which pleases them, long or short, fast or slow, just as one would walk on a sidewalk. […]

    — Auguste Bossu, Architect

Digital stop-motion animation loop (GIF)

February 14, 2014

"There was a time when art was an assault on what art was, and practices were motivated by an elated passion for regions of the mind that amaze the vision more than the eyes. Cameron [b. Marjorie Cameron, Belle Plaine, Iowa, 1922; d. Los Angeles, 1995] was of a time of heedless belief in the power of art to invent and celebrate new ways of representation and being. Her work oscillates between the psychedelic and surreal and defies a conventional understanding of modernity as a logical notion of progress in art. She reminds us of how little we perceive of our existence and how much our mind, if fully explored, awakens an alternative knowledge.”

Cameron: Songs for the Witch Woman is on view at MOCA Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, October 11, 2014 — January 11, 2015. 

Saturday: We’re open until 10 pm! See special exhibitions (Matisse!) and the collection, and make a night of it with drinks, dining, and shopping. Get your tickets now.

Suzanne Lafont, Marcheur, 1995-1998 Sérigraphie sur PVC 147,5 x 120 cm

Locataires du familistère de Guise

Scène dans un Ehpad Des tables, des chaises, des fauteuils roulants, des pensionnaires et des visiteurs. Ce sont ces derniers qui, certains après-midi, se retrouvent dans cet espace, rassemblent tables et chaises pour parler entre eux. Entre chaque visiteur, un fauteuil roulant occupé par des vieux ( enfin plutôt des vieilles, les vieux eux sont beaucoup moins…

Les perpendiculaires.