brendasbeignets:

Mechanical V&A sign int the tunnel leading from South Kensington tube station

Monday 27th Sept 2010. My group were instructed to sketch 50 sketches in the V&A in two rooms… 20th Century and I chose the Jewelery Rooms. The day was good but it was getting there that was a bit of a worry….

art-documents:

A rendering of the extension designed by the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron.

explorize:

selfridges lift, 1928. 9 septembre 2010. museum of london. an art deco masterpiece, once in the middle of london’s consumerism. it was replaced by escalators, as the lift was deemed to ugly. modernism.

lack of updates due to move. will post regularly again.

bomberger:

The British Museum

justasktheaxis:

This place, I just.

I seriously have about 200 pictures, there’s so much stuff everywhere. And the architecture, ajsddka.

(I’m finished nerding out - at least until I’ve put up some photos from the science museum.)

meganlubaszka:

Automatic Joseph Beuys reblog. Felt! Fat! Fedora!

austinkleon:

theartofchalkboards:

Tate Modern| Past Exhibitions | Joseph Beuys: Actions, Vitrines, Environments

Blackboards 1972 and 1978

Beuys regarded teaching as an essential element of his work as an artist. He was a profoundly charismatic and inspirational professor at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art, where he taught a generation of German artists. Beuys’s relationship with the authorities at the academy was always stormy, and he was dismissed in 1972. However, by then he was expounding his theories of sculpture, democracy and green politics at conferences and art galleries around the world. These lectures were closer in spirit to Actions than to traditional academic practice, and the blackboards that he invariably covered in idiosyncratic diagrams and Beuysian slogans have come to be regarded as works in their own right. Several of the blackboards shown here are preserved from Beuys’s lectures at the Tate Gallery in 1972, which were described by the critic Caroline Tisdall as ‘a blend of art, politics, personal charisma, paradox and Utopian proposition’.

I love the idea of chalkboards as preserved artifacts from lectures. See one of the chalkboards here.