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🧜‍♀️ Detail and full view of Roxanne Jackson’s (@roxannejackson_) splendid ceramic mermaid-predator “Aquata” (2016) from her two-artist show with Shannon Goff at @elijah_wheat_showroom. (at Elijah Wheat Showroom)

Kevin J Weir adds to the ghostly nature of vintage photographs with his humorous and unsettling GIFs. See more on HiFructose.com.

Blue Seascape, Wave Effect Georges Lacombe - circa 1893

Jennybird Alcantara’s absorbing, fantastical oil paintings return in a new show at KP Projects. See more on HiFructose.com.

Gordon Parks’s untitled 1957 portrait of Helen Frankenthaler at @jackshainman. (at Jack Shainman Gallery)

Ursula Le Guin, sci-fi and fantasy writer, speaking with Terry Gross in 1989 (via nprfreshair)

It’s a small world after all. Containing bacteria, algae, and tiny shrimp, this ecosphere was sealed in 1999 and hasn’t been opened since: it’s a self-sustaining habitat. How does it work? Algae make food from sunlight. Shrimp take oxygen from the water and exhale carbon dioxide; algae take in CO2 and give off O2. Microbes feed the shrimp—and the CO2-rich shrimp poop helps the algae and microbes! The idea of a closed, self-sustaining ecosystem shouldn’t be too strange, because you’re living in one: Earth. See the ecosphere in the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Hall of the Universe.

-Kate Robinson, Bookstore Manager 

research for #walkinglibrariesedition + PIONEER scent [ Untitled (Disks), 1972 by Mira Schindler, a refugee from fascist Italy who became one of Brazil’s art treasures via The Guardian ] #atmosphere #text #mapping

The textile work of Sabine Feliciano may recall a past biology class for some, as her “dissections” of animals play with the vibrant and textural possibilities of the form. See more on HiFructose.com.

[Toyin Ojih Odutola (b. 1985), Between the Margins, 2017. Charcoal, pastel and pencil on paper, 24 x 19 in. ©Toyin Ojih Odutola. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York]

Mariposas de Aragón, 2017. Festival Internacional de Arte Urbano. Photo by Juanjo Fernandez.

1993 guerrilla marquee by Jenny Holzer who fought the good fight on 42nd street ‘fore they tore it down. 

Palestine - Homes for the Disembodied,  Mary Tuma 

Jerry Uelsmann - Undiscovered Self  (1999)

Marina Marcolin

“When Frank Armah began painting posters for Ghanaian movie theaters in the mid-1980s, he was given a clear mandate: Sell as many tickets as possible. If the movie was gory, the poster should be gorier (skulls, blood, skulls dripping blood). If it was sexy, make the poster sexier (breasts, lots of them, ideally at least watermelon-sized). And when in doubt, throw in a fish…”