In a dreaming of escape, far away above the moutains and the moors. Dream in history, in smile. Hopes in the voluptuous dancing of a jellyfish. Car tel est notre bon plaisir.
(Source: italdred, via party-like-it-is-1660)
Francis Alÿs
The Nightwatch
Surveillance cameras observe a fox exploring the Tudor and Georgian rooms of the National Portrait Gallery at night.
(Source: aestheticanxiety, via theredshoes)
Alberto Sorbelli au Louvre.
Thank you, Taylor!
The painter who noticed Mona Lisa was gone
Louis Béroud was a fairly well-known artist who did paintings in and about the Louvre. On August 22, 1911, he went to the Louvre to paint the Mona Lisa on the wall of the Salon Carre and saw that it was not there. He asked a passing guard where it was. The guard shrugged and said “Probably being photographed.” Several hours later when La Joconde had not been returned, Beroud saw the guard again and asked when the masterpiece was going to be returned. The guard was concerned that the Mona Lisa had not been rehung. He immediately went off to the photo studio to see. He came back very agitated: the photographers did not have her and hadn’t seen her. She was missing.
This painting is dated 1911.
(via onlyartists)
