TruceArts

Miracle Of Colours by Nilofar Niri and Nursery Children

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:54:39 +0100

By Nilofar Niri herself:

“This picture is a collaboration between me and nursery children. They are from international backgrounds, with different skin colors.
When they started painting there were too many children and just a few brushes but amazingly without anyone tell them what to do they started using their hands instead of brushes and they managed to play without fighting for short periods of time and they were so happy. I think in a sweet way, it is a small example of truce.”

contemporaryartdaily: Amanda Ross-Ho at MOCA

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:57:16 +0100

contemporaryartdaily:

Amanda Ross-Ho at MOCA

eightiesart: KATE BLACKER

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:51:23 +0100

eightiesart:

KATE BLACKER

eightiesart: SIAH ARMAJANI

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 17:57:21 +0100

eightiesart:

SIAH ARMAJANI

soulculture: PSA: Free Hugs at Victoria station. #lol #life...

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 12:07:17 +0100

soulculture:

PSA: Free Hugs at Victoria station. #lol #life #london #transport #art #instacool #photooftheday (Taken with Instagram)

magicfran: Drawing the constellations by skinnyandy on Flickr.

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:55:26 +0100

magicfran:

Drawing the constellations by skinnyandy on Flickr.

earth-song: Dryocampa rubicunda The Rosy Maple...

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:12:02 +0100

earth-song:

Dryocampa rubicunda

The Rosy Maple Moth (Dryocampa rubicunda) is a North American moth in the Saturniidae family. Males have a wingspan of 32–44 mm; females of 40–50 mm. They have reddish-to-pink legs and antennae, yellow bodies and hindwings, and pink forewings with a triangular yellow band across the middle. Males have bushier antennae than females. As the name implies, rosy maple moths mainly feed on Maples, particularly Red Maple, Silver Maple, and Sugar Maple. Sometimes these moths become pests on maple trees.

Life cycle

Females lay pale yellow eggs in clusters of 20-30 on the undersides of maple leaves. After about two weeks, small gregarious caterpillarshatch. They will remain gregarious through the third instar, but the final two are solitary. The mature larvae are light green with black laterallines, red heads, and two filaments behind the head, and reach lengths of about 55 mm. When they are ready, they climb to the bottom of the host tree and pupate in shallow underground chambers. The pupae are very dark, elongated, and have small spines. The pupa ends in a small forked point. When the imago (adult) ecloses, it has small wings which it has to pump full of fluid in order for them to expand and allow for flight. Adult moths are generally nocturnal; they preferentially fly throughout the first third of the night (Fullard & Napoleone 2001). The females emit pheromones at night and attract males, which have bushier antennae to detect the pheromones. by Wiki

magicfran: Sshhhh! by skinnyandy on Flickr. This is so...

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:54:14 +0100

magicfran:

Sshhhh! by skinnyandy on Flickr.

This is so adorable.

crisisgroup: Shrinking Siberia | The Daily Beast by Anna...

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 05:57:04 +0100

crisisgroup:

Shrinking Siberia | The Daily Beast

by Anna Nemtsova

Siberia’s population is disappearing. In a generation, if current trends continue, the vast land—one and a half times the size of China—will have fewer inhabitants than Moscow or St. Petersburg. Today, only 38 million people live in Siberia—2 million fewer than 20 years ago, according to Russia’s Institute of Demography—even though the region constitutes up to 77 percent of the nation’s landmass. Almost three quarters of Russia’s population is crowded west of the Ural Mountains, where the best and brightest of Siberia are flocking, too, away from the crumbling infrastructure, widespread corruption, and lack of opportunities in their homeland. Siberia “shows no sign of becoming the secure, modern, self-sufficient [state] that young people wish they could live in,” says Yekaterina Sokirianskaya of the International Crisis Group.

FULL ARTICLE (The Daily Beast)

Photo: Matt Hintsa/Flickr

crisisgroup: Students Left Behind In Pakistan’s Tribal Regions...

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:58:49 +0100

crisisgroup:

Students Left Behind In Pakistan’s Tribal Regions | Radio Free Europe

By Isram Alam Mohmand

FATA, Pakistan — As the fight against terrorism in Pakistan’s restive northwest rages on, one casualty has been left on the battlefield — youth education.

Schools are a popular target for militants, often because they educate girls or because their curriculum is not considered Islamic enough for the Pakistani Taliban, which wields significant influence in the region.

FULL ARTICLE (Radio Free Europe)

Photo: United Nations/Flickr

newyorker: In 1998, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta asked...

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:51:50 +0100

newyorker:

In 1998, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta asked Richard Misrach to produce a body of work for their “Picturing the South” series. Misrach decided to focus on “Cancer Alley,” the Mississippi corridor that stretches a hundred and fifty miles between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, a startling landscape where antebellum mansions and current-day communities line the swamps and levees among gargantuan industrial plants that produce a quarter of America’s petrochemicals.

Over a decade later, the Museum asked Misrach to return to Cancer Alley to shoot, and then combined this new work with the original series for an exhibition and book called “Petrochemical America,” published by Aperture.

Click-through for more from Suzanne Shaheen on the exhibit, and for a slideshow featuring more images: http://nyr.kr/QgT2zT

manpodcast: Stephanie Barron, the curator of LACMA’s new Ken...

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:23:00 +0100

manpodcast:

Stephanie Barron, the curator of LACMA’s new Ken Price retrospective, is the lead guest on this week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast! Click here to download, here to subscribe via iTunes. See more images of Prices discussed on the show here.

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cavetocanvas:

Ken Price, Slate Cup, c. 1972. Photo by Fredrik Nilsen, courtesy of LACMA.

thingsorganizedneatly: Yves Klein

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:00:35 +0100

thingsorganizedneatly:

Yves Klein

papermag: Busy running errands today for #nyfw, how about you?

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:54:19 +0100

papermag:

Busy running errands today for #nyfw, how about you?

blakegopnik: DAILY PIC: Just yesterday in this space, I went...

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 05:54:56 +0100

blakegopnik:

DAILY PIC: Just yesterday in this space, I went after plop art. So much public sculpture feels too big and bombastic, as art, but also too small to truly compete with the buildings and trees around it. This is Tony Rosenthal’s “5-in-1”, from 1971, installed in a neglected little plaza down the street from City Hall in New York – and somehow it doesn’t seem to suffer from those faults. It fills its space boldly without dominating it. There’s even something a touch plangent about its grand late-modernist values, viewed from our minor postmodern moment. “5-in-1” comes across as an elephant might, grazing in a forest clearing.

For a full visual survey of past Daily Pics visit blakegopnik.com/archive. The Daily Pic, along with more global art news, can also be found on the Art Beast page at thedailybeast.com.

magicfran: Purple by Teruhide Tomori on Flickr.

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 22:14:48 +0100

magicfran:

Purple by Teruhide Tomori on Flickr.

manpodcast: Here’s a hint about this week’s upcoming Modern Art...

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 17:58:07 +0100

manpodcast:

Here’s a hint about this week’s upcoming Modern Art Notes Podcast guest. Never miss a show: Subscribe to The MAN Podcast via iTunes, RSS!

Also, I could use your help: The MAN Podcast is conducting its 2012 listener survey. If you could spend 3-5 minutes filling it out, it will make the show better and it will help keep the show free. Thanks much, I really appreciate it.

therhumboogie: By Tessa Farmer, simply stunning and magical...

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 11:51:29 +0100

therhumboogie:

By Tessa Farmer, simply stunning and magical tiny sculptures, each almost too small to have been crafted by a human, they simply have to be real fairies. Made from desiccated insect remains and other organic materials, poised in battle with a garden beastie, each around 1cm tall.

“Exchanging Victorian romanticism for the darker pragmatism of science, Farmer evidences her specimens as fearsome skeletal fiends, plausible “hell’s angels” of a microscopic apocalypse.”

claudiaandrew: The Best Of Men Drama about the birth of the...

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 10:38:20 +0100

claudiaandrew:

The Best Of Men

Drama about the birth of the Paralympics in 1948. Dr. Guttman introduces sport as part of the rehabilitation of the paralysed soldiers at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital.

Watch here

manpodcast: This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Ori...

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 17:49:49 +0100

manpodcast:

This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features Ori Gersht, an Israeli-born artist who has spent the last fifteen years exploring the territory in which violence and beauty overlap, often with a special focus on how a landscape can bear witness. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has just opened a mid-career survey of his work titled, “Ori Gersht: History Repeating.” On view through Jan. 6, the show was curated by Al Miner.

Gersht and I spoke about how he made “Chasing Good Fortune,” the 2011 series from which this work comes. The pictures (and video) are of cherry blossoms in Hiroshima. Gersht took long exposures of the city’s cherry trees at night, so the light that illuminates the blossoms is ambient. On this week’s show, Gersht talks about how the trees remained standing after the blast of the atomic bomb, but the branches were burned off. They grew back.

Download the show directly to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe to The MAN Podcast via iTunes, RSS. See images discussed on the show.

Image: Ori Gersht, Melting Down 02 (detail) from the series “Chasing Good Fortune” (detail), 2011.