Mark Rothko - Simon Schama’s Power of Art
through bashfulness, suspicion, and timorousness, will not be seen abroad; loves darkness as life and cannot endure the light or to sit in lightsome places; his hat still in his eyes, he will neither see, nor be seen by his good will. He dare not come in company for fear he should be misused, disgraced, overshoot himself in gesture or speeches, or be sick; he thinks every man observes him
- Hippocrates
Electricity - Captain Beefheart
Magic Mountain - Blonde Redhead
The Last Living Rose - PJ Harvey
Auguste Rodin - 2 minute video of the sculptor at work in his studio, French narration.
Chuck Close - Cindy
Chuck Close has created several portraits of Cindy Sherman—both photgraphs and paintings.
(via sfmoma)
Luc Tuymans
Rabbit
1994
Oil on canvas
23 3/8 x 28 1/8 inches (59.3 x 71.5 cm)
(via an-itinerant-poet)
DIIV : ‘Doused’
from the album “Oshin”
forthcoming via Captured Tracks : 2012
