a nut in your hand

Paul Elliman, 2012. Published by Colophon and Casco, as a contribution to the exhibition ‘Latent Stare’ at CasCo, Utrecht. 

pillar

amalia pica

marcel broodthaers

er staat een

at HISK, Ghent (horse by Conny Kuilboer)

at KASK, Ghent

Storck & Dekeukeleire

Henri Storck (!), Pour vos beaux yeux, 1929
You can watch the entire film here

Henri Storck pioneered avant-garde Belgian film with Charles Dekeukeleire (!) 

You can find their films on dvd at Cinematek

peephole

Leuven
Antoine Wiertz Museum, Brussels

fish head soup

From 'De wonderen der zee', 1967

dear whales

National Geographic News headlines: 'Deformed dolphin accepted into new family. Lone dolphin with spinal deformity travels among a group of sperm whales.' Read the article here.

porta finestra

Henri Matisse in full color from top to bottom:
Porta-finestra a Collioure, 1905
La Finestra Blu, 1912
Vaso con Pesci Rossi, 1914 
Pesce Rosso, 1911

van hoogstraeten

Samuel van Hoogstraeten, The Man at the Window, 1653.
In Dutch, his name reads like 'Samuel from Hoogstraeten', referring to a village in the north of Belgium, the place where I grew up. Funny enough van Hoogstraeten was actually from Dordrecht, in the Netherlands.

shoe throwing

The shoe thrown at President Bush during a press conference in Iraq in 2008

the many-breasted Artemis

Islamic architecture: North Africa, 1977, Scorpion Publications, London

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting*

René Magritte, Composition - Paravent in triptych form, ca. 1931

Eileen Gray, Screen, 1922, lacquered wood
Archives Galerie Vallois - Paris-Arnaud Carpentier

Eileen Gray, Rue de Lota apartment with her Pirogue chaise longue

Eva Berendes, Untitled, 2011, at S1 Artspace, Sheffield

Eva Berendes, The Middelburg Curtain, 2011, at De Vleeshal, Middelburg

*Barnet Newmann cited in Rosalind Krauss, 'Sculpture in the expanded field', October, Vol.8, 1979.

'Anyone who believes he can buy a real Giacometti for €20,000 deserves to be duped'

Robert Driessen came to specialize in creating forgeries of Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti. Driessen lived in Thailand for the last eight years as a millionaire, out of the reach of European authorities. 'I am trapped in paradise,' he says. The rest of his story here.

to the rescue

Top image: Koala looking for a home in the Australian state New South Wales after its home has been deforested (from De Morgen newspaper)

Images below: 'Koalas are under siege. Can Australia rescue them?' (from National Geographic, May 2012 - thanks to Ans Aerts)