Eartheater breaking real glass with her voice required research & rehearsal. Factors included glass temperature, size, shape, age, pitch & physical stamina. No special FX used: captured all in camera at 1000+ fps.

Amy Winehouse backstage at Bush Hall (2003)

Photographed by Richard Kern

"Icebreaker" was a two hour performance by @anabelleleedehm and @wallyworldweb in which the artists waited two hours for a large ice block balanced between their mouths to melt naturally so that they could kiss.

Alexander McQueen, “Pagan Poetry” Dress (2001), and Matthew Barney, ‘Verspertine’ Music Box (2001) and ‘Vespertine Live’ Shoes (2001) (photo by Jillian Steinhauer/Hyperallergic)

“Vacillator” by @mothercain, dir. by Hayden Anhedonia and @silkenweinberg

judith larsen

—Oscar Wilde

7.6.22

Georgia O'Keeffe in front of her work "Abstraction", 1946

Karel Appel, Three Horses, 1949. 

Clamshell inside-outside pool designed by Nick Powell of Craig Bragdy Designs

We love to see where painters live. My recent favourite is a Russian artist Ekaterina Zhadina who lives in a village near Orenburg. This is a real house, somehow over decorated and stylised places look more and more tiresome.

Rainer Maria Rilke in a letter to Lou Andreas-Salomé, published in Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters