No Learning Without Feeling

huesodecristal:

Julie Mehretu

(via dcartscenter)

“The Tower, which can be seen from almost anywhere in Caracas, is a symbol of the downward spiral that Venezuela has experienced under Hugo Chávez’s rule.”

From teachingliteracy: simple diary (by IDSOM).

Simple, and very blue.

The call for submissions to our next issue, “Osmosis,” is now open.

A report on library services in the digital age.

Ellsworth Kelly’s “Colored Paper Images,” now at the NGA.

Once out of nature I shall never take
My bodily form from any natural thing,
But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
Of hammered gold and gold enamelling
To keep a drowsy Emperor awake;
Or set upon a golden bough to sing
To lords and ladies of Byzantium
Of what is past, or passing, or to come.

Great Guardian interview with poet Sharon Olds.

proustitute:

Giotto, Envy (detail), c. 1304-06

#Proust2013