Vincent van Gogh. The Starry Night. Saint Rémy, June 1889. Oil on canvas, 29 x 36 1/4″ (73.7 x 92.1 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest

Henri Rousseau. The Dream. 1910. Oil on canvas, 6′ 8 1/2″ x 9′ 9 1/2″ (204.5 x 298.5 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller

Pablo Picasso. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. 1907. Oil on canvas, 8′ x 7′ 8″ (243.9 x 233.7 cm). Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest. © 2011 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Salvador Dalí. The Persistence of Memory. 1931. Oil on canvas, 9 1/2 x 13″ (24.1 x 33 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Given anonymously. © 2011 Salvador Dalí, Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Henri Rousseau. The Sleeping Gypsy. 1897. Oil on canvas, 51″ x 6′ 7″ (129.5 x 200.7 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Mrs. Simon Guggenheim

Jackson Pollock (American, 1912-1956). One: Number 31, 1950, 1950. Oil and enamel paint on canvas. 8′ 10″ x 17′ 5 5/8″ (269.5 x 530.8 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection Fund (by exchange). © 2011 Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Marcel Broodthaers (Belgian, 1924–1976). Maria (also known as Maria’s Dress). 1966. Dress, hanger, and eggshells glued to shopping bag, on canvas, 44 1/8 x 39 3/8 x 4 3/4″ (112 x 100 x 12 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Herman J. Daled. © 2011 Marcel Broodthaers / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SABAM, Brussels

The Alfred H. Barr Painting and Sculpture Galleries feature on the fifth floor roughly span the years 1880 to 1940. Within an overall chronological flow, galleries highlight individual stylistic movements, artists, and themes, including Post-Impressionism, Cubism, the work of Henri Matisse, Claude Monet’s Water Lilies, and Surrealism, among other subjects. An ongoing program of periodic reinstallations allows the curators to present a wide range of artworks in various configurations, reflecting the view that there are countless ways to explore the history of modern art and the Museum’s rich collection. The Painting and Sculpture Galleries on the fourth floor display art made between 1940 and 1980; the Contemporary Galleries on the second floor present the most recent works in the collection.

At the foot of the Acropolis, Nearchos Ntaskas and Clair Georgelli run their studio, “Polkadot Design“. They enjoy creating illustration and design for clients, personal projects and exhibitions.

Nearchos started out in 1994, making storyboards for animation productions around Europe. He is active in the field of art; through his exploration, he is more concerned to illustrate something ‘honest’ than ‘good looking’. This approach has lead him to illustrate for cultural events, book covers and newspapers, among others.

Clair has studied Typography & Graphic Communication in Reading University UK, where she developed her interest in typography for children and children’s books. She has written and illustrated a series of three children’s books ‘The Little Black Squid’ published at Metaichmio Publications.

The combination of illustration and lettering has an important interaction in their work. Although they don’t hesitate to use strong colours or big shapes, they achieve clarity and visual balance in their artwork.

“Polkadot Design” has been repeatedly distincted at the European Design Awards, at the Greek Graphic Design & Illustration Awards (obtained the Golden Prize 2012 in Illustration), has been nominated for the ‘German Design Award’ and has been published in various design magazines such as the German ‘NOVUM’ world of graphic design and ‘Gallery’ the world’s best graphics.

View here some of their truly unique illustrations or visit them the “PolkaDot Design” portfolio at http://www.polkadot.gr

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This summer and fall the Palace of Versailles will be home to the incredible tree sculptures of Italian artist Giuseppe Penone. The wood, stone, and marble sculptures are on display in the palace and surrounding grounds through October 30, 2013.

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‘London by hand’ is a hand-drawn map of london, created by British artist Jenni Sparks for London-based art print producers evermade. Based on a geographic map of the London metro system, the print replicates the streets, neighborhoods, and landmarks of the city, as well as highlighting lesser-known, quirkier shops, museums, and tidbits of local history. The birthplaces of British celebrities and locations of local markets are among the information depicted in hand-drawn letters and sketches.

Jenni Sparks worked for two months to complete the map, which is sold here on the evermade shop.

Níall McLaughlin Architects have designed the House at Pipers End in Hertfordshire, UK.

This new family house replaces a dilapidated farmhouse on 2 acre site in rural Hertfordshire. Planning permission for the house, which is within the Greenbelt, was awarded because the new house was demonstrated to be more sustainable in the long term than refurbishing the existing building.

The design of the new house is sensitive to its setting within an existing, mature landscape, including an orchard belonging to the original house.

The house and the new landscaping surrounding it are conceived in plan as five strips, characterised by different materials: a thicket of silver birch; a timber cabinet; a vitrine of timber framed glass; a loggia of steel columns supporting a perforate metal canopy and a concrete reflecting pool.

The masonry construction is made up of the very stones displaced during excavation, creating a strong and appropriate connection to its landscape. the structure is an extension to the original home, linked by an exterior garden and hallway/gallery. The extruded peripheral walls that delineate the spaces of the residence stretch into the sky and create various courtyards, patios, and large windows where views are free to roam across the valley and allow sunlight to fill the materialistically minimal spaces.

Natural wood compliments the hard stone with a warmer texture also derivative of its site. The large volume of spaces of the interior reflect a feeling of being outdoors emphasized by the grandiose fenestration, making a dynamic relationship between the exterior and interior program.

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Photos of cityscapes overlayed with textures using a computer program. The textures are borrowed from mottled and yellowing pieces of paper that give the works a certain patina.

Recdi8 studio offers a comprehensive service for interior decoration. This is an intervention in an old house in Ibiza.

Here, we brought light and a sense of joy to a previously dark rustic country house. It is in an exceptional location for making the most of the Ibiza dream

This is a tale of two houses – similar looking, yet independent and coming together to form a coherent whole. The two blocks sit on a sprawling piece of land, belonging respectively to the retired parents and one of their children.

This separation of the house into two blocks, in part a response to the sheer scale of the land, is also a requirement brief given by the clients. Programmatically, it consists of a two-storey block with the main living and master bedroom area, and a single-storey block housing the entertainment areas of the house.

What links these two volumes together is the huge central courtyard at the entrance expressed in an austere geometry of granite floor and wall, an organically shaped oculus and a minimalist planting of six willowy trees. Like a sparse yet artful Chinese landscape painting, this sets the tone for the rest of the spaces.

The landscape design, similar to the house, is also experienced in multiple correlated layers. It takes its inspiration from the philosophy of classical Chinese Garden where views are borrowed through cutouts and vistas, and where sight lines and spaces begin to overlap.