André Derain (1880-1954), Woman in a chemise, 1906, at The National Art Museum, Copenhagen.
(via History of Art: Architecture and Sculpture)
(via History of Art: Architecture and Sculpture)
“Alice” by Modigliani at The National Art Museum, Copenhagen.
Interior with a Girl Reading - Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse. Interior with a Violin. 1917-18. Oil on canvas. Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
—James Joyce
thecultofgenius:

James Joyce would be 130 years old today. Additionally, his most important novel, Ulysses, was published 90 years ago.
He was an irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century… (more)
Download Ulysses here: http://goo.gl/E04wH.
newyorker:

The images of eyes, unblinking and the size of buildings, stared down from the slum on a hill - Rio de Janeiro’s oldest favela, Morro da Providência - and into the heart of the city. They emerged mysteriously, in the summer of 2008, not long after three young men from the community were murdered. 

- Raffi Khatchadourian writes about the street artist JR and his global experiment to help people be seen [subscription required]. Above, a photograph by JR from the series “Women Are Heroes.”