❝ When traveling is made too easy and comfortable, its spiritual meaning is lost. This may be called sentimentalism, but a certain sense of loneliness engendered by traveling leads one to reflect upon the meaning of life, for life is after all a travelling from one unknown to another unknown. ❞
D.T. Suzuki   (via savikalpa)

(Source: samsaranmusing)

erotischenay:

We need more signs like this

(Source: spuandi)


foxmouth:

Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Trails, 2013
by Danielle Hughson

momalibrary:

Artist File find of the day: a diazo (heliograph) print by Argentinian artist
León Ferrari. Titled Planta and dated 1980, this detail of the blueprint-sized plan shows how the artist used architectural clip art to create a dense human maze—suggesting a world gone cubicle.

Looking at works by Ferrari in the curatorial collection puts Planta in context of his Heliografias series. For example, Barrio and Cidade (both 1980) scale up into complex cityscapes, while others such as Gente (c. 1983) form abstract patterns that can be imagined at any scale.

Speaking of context, at the library we also have many artists’ books by Ferrari, as well as a good slug of books about the artist.

You just never know what you’ll find in the library’s artist files. -jt

megaestructuras:

Paolo Soleri | Arcoindian II Arcology | 1969

(Source: arqueologiadelfuturo.blogspot.com.es)


subtilitas:

FORM/Kouichi Kimura - Small house, Aichi 2013. Photos (C) Kei Nakajima.


art21:

“It was important that people come to value light as we value gold, silver, paintings, objects.”
—James Turrell

New video from the Exclusive series: James Turrell, our current 100 Artists featured artist, describes the values and perceptions of light while revisiting one of his “skyspace” works, Second Meeting (1989).

WATCH: James Turrell: “Second Meeting”

IMAGES: Production stills from the Exclusive film, James Turrell: “Second Meeting”. © Art21, Inc. 2013.