latimes:

A sad fate for some Southern women: In one Virginia town, where there are more churches than bars and hush puppies are served with lunch, women are likely to die nearly a decade earlier than their sisters in the next county.

Photo: Mary Baird, center, rests for a second between clients at her salon, the Hair Station. She gave up fried chicken, fried potatoes and greens cooked with ham hocks when her mother’s heart gave out. View more photos at the gallery. Credit: Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times

blakegopnik:

Daily Pic: Nan Goldin’s “Trixie on the Cot, New York City”, from 1979, is the most powerful image in the summer group show at Matthew Marks gallery in Chelsea. I remember first seeing Goldin’s shots when I was working as a hack photographer in the early 1980s, and thinking that they lacked any specifically artistic or aesthetic values. (I was a recovering Ansel Adam-ite, newly under the sway of Lee Friendlander.) Then, in the early 1990s, I remember thinking that the glory and worth of Goldin lay specifically in that lack. And now, after decades of little Goldinians following in her footsteps, Goldin’s own photos look as full of style and aesthetics as any mannerist painting.

The Daily Pic, along with more global art news, can also be found on the  Art Beast page at thedailybeast.com.

bbook:

10 Musicians and the Actors Who Were Born to Play Them

project-project-roanoke:

PROject proJECT is super happy to announce that Jeremy Kolosine / Receptors will take a break from his 2 year hiatus from live performance (and 4 years since he last played in Roanoke) to provide an ambient / improvisational micro-chipmusic backdrop using 8-bit/16-bit Nintendo GameBoy and DSi.

http://www.receptorsmusic.com/

dcdocent:

What is it to walk? To drive? To cyclically repeat our patterns? To document them and try to extract artistic meaning through these personal banalities? Billy Friebele shows us in his exhibit New Loops at Civilian Art Projects.

His video loops aren’t just about trying to root us in these…

project-project-roanoke:

Amanda and Mateo Projection Mapping

THis is going to be Great!

project-project-roanoke:

Amanda and Mateo Projection Mapping

THis is going to be Great!

artistdesktops:

“I am entering a new stage in my work which has little to do ironically with alternative processes.  There is something about this image I like. Maybe it is just because its the first quasi successful Daguerrotype I made as Jerry Spagnolis assistant at the Photographers Formulary Workshop in Montana.  I put the image on my desktop for good luck!  My desktop goes through phases…..this just happened to be a fairly non embarrassing day so I thought I would go for it!”

Margaret Adams, Photographer and Independent Curator, Baltimore, MD