moon moth

Helen Frankenthaler

Helen Frankenthaler (via acrylicalchemy)

“A crew installing Helen Frankenthaler’s painting Guiding Red, 1977…  in the mezzanine of World Trade Center II.“ (aaa.si.edu)

opens Fri, Jan 31, 6-8p: KAZUKO MIYAMOTO INVISIBLE-EXPORTS Gallery, 89 Eldridge St., NYC the first solo exhibition in New York, in over a decade, of work by Kazuko Miyamoto, a preeminent feminist figure of minimalism. Born in wartime Tokyo, Miyamoto moved to New York in 1964, studied at the Arts Student League, and soon became assistant to Sol Lewitt… In her early work, (between 1968 and 1972), Miyamoto was primarily a painter of large-scale bichromatic acrylic canvases, works that inflected and, in some ways, undermined formal systems with modest, organic painterly elements. In 1973, the year of her first gallery shows in New York and Italy, Miyamoto embarked on a major nail-and-string wall-based installation at MoMA—the elegant, path-breaking site-specific work which she had been refining for several years as she moved away from painting, and would become her signature work between 1972 and 1979.

http://www.bonomogallery.com/?portfolio=kazuko-miyamoto

Agnes Martin

[Ruth Asawa (American, 1926–2013), Desert Plant, 1965, First state, Lithograph, Printed by John Rock, published by Tamarind Lithography Workshop; Desert Flower, 1965, Second state, Lithograph, Printed by John Rock, published by Tamarind Lithography Workshop, © 2014 Estate of Ruth Asawa]

I learned about Tinariwen, a hypnotic Saharan Desert blues-rock collective that’s been around since the early 1980s from a friend last month. He put one of their new songs on a mixtape for me, or whatever one calls a collection of songs curated and...

According to her wishes, Hilma af Klint’s paintings were kept secret from the public until 20 years after her death.

An excerpt from one of Hilma af Klint's diaries.

Sappho’s fragment 134 (via ozlemhaluk)

Secret Window by  Marcin Ryczek Fotografia

Mikulov - Svatý kopecek

Contd from here

circumhorizontal arcs photographed by (click pic) david england, andy cripe, del zane, todd sackmann and brandon rios. this atmospheric phenomenon, otherwise known as a fire rainbow, is created when light from a sun that is at least 58 degrees above the horizon passes through the hexagonal ice crystals that form cirrus clouds which, because of quick cloud formation, have become horizontally aligned. (see also: previous cloud posts)