Stephen Workman

free-parking:

Robert Mapplethorpe, White Gauze

flasd:

(via Just Because / © ashley goldberg)

artforadults:

more beautiful artworks by russ mills, ON TUMBLR

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adarasanchez:

Zodiac sign. Gemini.

backfrometernity:

Skin with O’Hara Poem
Jasper Johns,1963-65

bohemea:

Ann Sheridan

la-beaute—de-pandore:

Andi Schreiber

The Real Self

inzoom:

:: Fernando Martins Ferreira

rmanyc:

Access @ the Rubin Museum

Announcing the launch of a new video series entitled, Access @ the Rubin Museum. This series aims to offer engaging, accessible video content around our exhibitions, tours, and programs. The first episodes cover the Gateway to Himalayan Art exhibition, and can be seen on our website here: www.rmanyc.org/access. 

Below, Ashley Mask, Manager of Access Programs here at the museum, interviews Guthrie Nutter, one of our talented Deaf Guides, about his background and what it was like to collaborate on the launch of this new series! 

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What is your background? (Not limited to museums) 

My childhood in Oregon has given me a great affinity for things great and small in nature.  Living in New York for the past 14 years is no exception.  I’m a freelancer working as an American Sign Language (ASL) educator, museum guide, and as a consultant within theatre and language.  I fill in the spaces between with opportunities to go on adventures; in May 2012, I will be tornado chasing in Oklahoma, followed by backpacking hundreds of miles by foot in California’s Sierra Nevadas.  (see www.guthrienutter.com for details!)  

How long have you been working with the Rubin Museum of Art?

Since 2009.  

What do you enjoy about your work with our collection?

When audiences see key Rubin Museum of Art concepts come to life through the visual imagery of ASL, it’s a beautiful moment.  The tours here become a living thing; the shared experience of ‘experiencing’ the works together sets it apart from a typical lecture-driven tour.

There are now several examples of museum access programs posting access videos online. What are your thoughts about this trend? 

Through this technological ingenuity, linguistic barriers are cast aside - putting both ASL-users and non-ASL-users on even parity with each other.  It’s a great social equalizer where wonderful dialogues between peoples of different backgrounds can share experiences mutually.  This is a wonderful thing that we’ve all been waiting for.  

What are the benefits of making this sort of video? For the museum or for the community of ASL users?

It opens up the museum to bring in newer audiences and opens the opportunity for a greater conversation with the museum’s patrons, and enriches RMA’s mission statement.  ASL users now have access to a greater range of cultural exchange and vocabulary.

What was it like to craft your tour experience for the camera? 

It was a blast!  It is a wonderful nexus where both passions for art and performance were merged together onto one platform.

mythologyofblue:

Lynn Davis, Evening Northumberland Strait #VIII, 1993

artchipel:

Tumblr Artist

Lo Kyung Me on Tumblr (USA) - A Long Divorce / End. Ink on paper

New York based artist Lo Kyung Me’s art is tiresome, violent, lustful but above all romantic. She’s inspired by the concept of a violent romance and all the destruction and repressed desire that comes along with it. “Essentially what I am trying to express in my work is the romantic quality of longing and loss. In my work, I try to achieve a balance between tenderness and cruelty.” Please visit her Tumblr for more work. (Interview with artist by ARTchipel June-2012)

[more Lo Kyung Me]

sisterwolf:

Nena Von Schlebrugge by Norman Parkinson -Vogue, 1958