Posts tagged art
Maurizio Cattelan
La Nona Ora (The Ninth Hour)
1999
(via whoinspiresme)
Lernert & Sander
Everything
2013
“Everything is a perfume by consisting of all fragrances launched in 2012. Over the last year Lernert & Sander collected almost 1400 samples of newly launched fragrances. By mixing the content of all of these bottles, they created 1.5 liter of Everything. This unique perfume comes in a specially designed and hand blown bottle, an enlargement of a classic sample bottle. From March 1st to 9th, the bottle will be showcased at Colette in Paris. Visitors will have the rare chance to try it. Watch the Making Of video.” (colette.fr)
Unknown artist
“The king’s bath made with the blood of the innocents”, from The Vessels of Hermes
ca. 1700
(via publicdomainreview.org)
Paul Cadmus
The Bath
1951
(in “American Legends: From Calder to O’Keeffe” at the Whitney Museum)
François-Léon Benouville
The Wrath of Achilles
1847
(in “Nude Men” at the Leopold Museum, Vienna; see also)
Sophie Calle
Excerpt from The Address Book
1983
“In the early nineteen-eighties, the French artist Sophie Calle, who is known for projects that involve immersing herself in the lives of strangers or allowing strangers a view of her own life, found an address book on the street in Paris. Before mailing it back to its owner—a filmmaker called Pierre D.—she photocopied the contents and then proceeded to call each person listed in it to ask questions about him … She turned her encounters into short pieces, which were published almost daily over the course of a month in the newspaper Libération. When Pierre D. discovered what Calle was doing, he threatened to sue her for invasion of privacy, and she agreed not to re-publish the work until after his death.” (via)
Diego Agullo and Dmitry Paranyushkin
The Humping Pact (Palace of Justice, Brussels)
2012
(via BUTT)
Weary Herakles
Roman, 2nd century A.D.
(ex. coll. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; see also)
