Saturday, September 17, 2011
Thursday, September 8, 2011
George and Patricia Beacher
George Beacher, b. 1920, Achnasheen, Scottish Highlands, and Patricia Beacher, née Dixon-Foster, b. 1920, Shrewsbury, England; active as artists on the South Coast of England, 1958–1965. After meeting at Nottingham University in 1955 (married 1956), the Beachers began to develop their body arrangements as a series of tableaux performed annually at various locations in the South of England. Documented in photographs, these works were bound into a number of albums, each taking its title from the town where the actions took place. Of the original seven or more albums, only one, The Abbotsbury Album, has survived intact. Geo. Beacher, who practised as an accountant, died in 2004, but since the album was discovered in 2010 there has been much speculation on their aesthetic intentions. US historian Professor Pascal Zehn was discovered to have forged similar albums and passed them off as Beacher originals.
Images from The Abbotsbury Album are being exhibited here for the first time by kind permission of the Patrons of Nashville University and the board of American Academics Against Artistic Anomalies (aaaaalectures.org), which has allowed this exhibition to proceed despite ongoing investigations.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Koyu Abe + sunflowers
Koyu Abe, chief monk at the Buddhist Joenji Temple, has distributed at least 8 million sunflowers to soak up toxins from the soil in Fukushima. “It is said that Sunflowers can remove 95% of the radiation in soil in 20 days.”
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011
the Dar al-Hajar
Credit: Yahya Arhab / EPAThe Dar al-Hajar (Rock Palace) is perched atop a rock pinnacle at the Wadi Dhahr Valley, north of the capital Sana’a, Yemen, on 09 August 2011. The historical five-storey palace was built by Yemen’s ruler Imam Mansour Ali Bin Mehdi Abbas in 1786 AD. In the 1930s, the late Yemeni monarch Imam Yahya Hameed Al-Din added the upper story and annexes and used it as his summer residence.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Monday, August 8, 2011
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