Tag Archives: 2000’s

2001: Crying Landscape

Posted on October 11, 2017 by corvusfugit

Yang Jiechang: Crying Landscape: Three Gorges Dam (2002)

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2009: Crumbs

Posted on October 7, 2017 by corvusfugit

D. R. McCoy: Crumbs (2009); “I have been studying the Book of Acts recently, which reminded me that gentiles like myself are only allowed into the kingdom because we are receiving the ‘crumbs’ discarded by the people in Jesus’ day. … Continue reading →

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2005: The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes

Posted on October 7, 2017 by corvusfugit

The Brothers Quay, directors: The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005)

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2006: Poor Pluto

Posted on October 4, 2017 by corvusfugit

Since Pluto’s orbital period around the Sun—its “year”—is about 248 years, it had not even managed one trip around the sun in the 76 years between its discovery as the ninth planet in 1930 and its infamous reclassification as a … Continue reading →

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2009: Firey

Posted on September 21, 2017 by corvusfugit

Sergei Isupov: Firey (2009) (source)

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2009: Landscape (with Sheep)

Posted on September 7, 2017 by corvusfugit

Levi van Veluw: Landscape (2008) (source)

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2009: Wolf Story

Posted on September 6, 2017 by corvusfugit

José Luis Rodriguez: Storybook Wolf (2009). Rodriguez was stripped of the Natural History Museum’s wildlife photographer of the year award after judges determined that he had staged this photo using a tame wolf named Ossian from a wildlife park in … Continue reading →

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2009: Big Bad

Posted on September 2, 2017 by corvusfugit

Steve Hathaway: American wolf pack in Beanham, UK (2009) (See more here.)

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2009: Do You Remember When?

Posted on August 30, 2017 by corvusfugit

For their 2009 piece Do You Remember When?, the indigenous arts collective Postcommodity cut through the floor of the Arizona State University Art Museum, exposing the earth below. A recording of a Pee Posh social dance song played in the … Continue reading →

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1489: Versions

Posted on August 30, 2017 by corvusfugit

Leonardo da Vinci: Lady with an Ermine [Cecilia Galleran] (1489–1490) Awol Erizku: Lady with a Pitbull (2009) Hans Holbein: Portrait of a Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling [probably Anne Lovell] (c. 1526-28) Frida Khalo: Self-Portrait with … Continue reading →

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