Amy Goodwin

All I can say is WOW

Sam Taylor Wood, self portrait from the series Escape Artist

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Julien Carretero

to be continued bench

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Hyock Kwon

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very fun stop-motion animation

Sorry I'm Late

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Etsuko Ichikawa - DEAI, 2005 from Davidson Galleries on Vimeo.

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Jorge Colombo creates a New Yorker cover with his iPhone

photography by Gottfried Helnwein

boom

Giancarlo Neri, The Writer

artnet

Architect Zaha Hadid's shoes for Lacoste

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Maira Kalman, NYTimes

"What will art’s new direction be, following the onset of global economic crisis, with the inevitable effect on art production and art culture? What clues are there in the remnants of the old direction?"

WHERE ARE WE GOING?

By Matthew Collings

Francis Bacon, Triptych - August 1972

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funny, sweet, and then more funny

"She recommends starting your work day concentrating on your most important task for 90 minutes. At that point your prefrontal cortex probably needs a rest, and you can answer e-mail, return phone calls and sip caffeine (which does help attention) before focusing again. But until that first break, don’t get distracted by anything else, because it can take the brain 20 minutes to do the equivalent of rebooting after an interruption. "

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Ear Plugs to Lasers: The Science of Concentration

NYTimes

Wayne Thiebaud, Two Kneeling Figures

Word & Pictures

Donald Rumsfeld juxtaposed war imagery with inspirational Bible quotes on the covers of his war briefings. He would hand deliver his work to George Bush, the man who referred to America's war on terror as a "Crusade."

Onward, Christian Soldiers! slide show here

Frank Rich's great (scary) article here

Cornelia Parker

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The Sky, From Above

 the big picture

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Moon

Directed by Duncan Jones (a.k.a. David Bowie’s son, Zowie Bowie) and co-written by Nathan Parker (who is the son of British director Alan Parker), Moon depicts Sam Bell’s (Samuel Rockwell) lonely tenure on a faraway lunar station. 

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One Dollar Project

Gerhard Richter, Woman Descending the Staircase

Ann Hamilton, Reflection

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To Boldly Go...Backwards

Jennifer Weiner talks about the absence of strong female characters in the new Star Trek film

Why 'the Best' Are So Often Male 

critical difference

inhale your chocolate

Le Whif is a new way of eating chocolate - by breathing it

LEWHIF

Luke Dowd, spray paint on paper

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Regrets

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Julie Fragar, THESEAREONLYSMALLSCALELIES

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Matthys Gerber, Black Mojo

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Keep Calm

I love my Momma

May all the Moms win tomorrow

Margriet Smulders, Dragonfly,  from the Get Drunk 2006 series

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Tim Gough

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