Signs

Mikhail Shemyakin, "Raskolnikov in His Room" (1985), illustration for Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment

“Not Red, But Green” (2014) by Per Kristian Nygård ☀ Undulating grass mounds on gallery floor

By Kaparetti

Jan Matejko, Stańczyk

I asked if this was an art installation and a Danish person said "no this is quite a serious impedance"

from 1980

Come affronto il Lunedì...

Earth Day with David Byrne: David Byrne‘s Tight Spot, presented under the High Line in 2011, is an inflatable audio installation of low frequency pulses, tremors, and rumbles which emanate from the 40-foot globe. Byrne has commented on the phenomenon of “humans squishing their planet,” noting that Earth is no longer a “planet of clouds, deep blue oceans, beige deserts and swaths of green jungle.” Read more about Byrne’s installation here. 

A Good Little Devil, Roland Topor, 1977

Sarah Pucill (b. 1961), Seeing Through, 1990 Photographic collage on paper, 61 x 50.5 cm. (24 x 19 7/8 in.)

Victorian Reverse Painted Crystal Intaglio Earrings, 1870

Épuisé par le sang, le cœur est blanc

Known as an "emancipated duel," it was a private event for women only. Baroness Lubinska, physician for the famous 1892 duel between Princess Pauline Metternich and Countess Anastasia Kielmannsegg suggested they duel topless to prevent infection. It was feared that if the swords pierced their clothing, fabric fibers could enter the wound and cause infection. By removing their tops, they ensured cleaner cuts and easier medical care.

Science has found the most elaborated technical solutions for material problems, many of them caused by humans and technical progress itself, like anthropogenic global warming. But science fails and doesn’t even try to find practical solutions to the Root of humanities main problems: human Psyche in Systems of societal Organisation.