PABLO NERUDA X DIEGO RIVERA

It’s Valentine’s Day and the news that Nobel Prize-winning Poet, Pablo Neruda’s body is to be exhumed to determine what killed him seemed morbidly fitting. 

It also gives me an excuse to show works the painter/muralist Diego Rivera did for Neruda. The first painting shown was used for the cover of Neruda’s book Canto General. *we stumbled across this cool B&W photo of Neruda and Rivera at Neruda’s book signing.

Rivera was also friends with Neruda’s lover and wife Matilde and wound up painting her, in the painting she’s depicted as having two heads and entangled locks of hair resembling that of Medusa. The painting still hangs in the house Neruda has built for her, La Chascona, in Santiago de Chile.

*1950 America Prehispanica,Oil on canvas, 70 x 92 cm., Collection of the Estate of Licio Lagos, Mexico City. Photo: Rafael Doniz

Museum of Broken Relationships

Tomorrow, on Valentine’s Day the Museum of Broken Relationships will record their highest attendance for the year.

“The objects that are here represent all the stages of a breakup … and how people go through love,” said Drazen Grubisic, a designer and artist who co-founded the museum in 2010 in the Croatian capital.

“The mementos — collected from all over the world — are random and varied. Each item comes with dates and locations of the relationships, and notes by their anonymous donors.

Some are funny. The note next to a garter belt says: “I never put them on. The relationship might have lasted longer if I had.”

Some are bitter. The garden gnome flew over a car driven by a husband who turned “arrogant and heartless.” It bounced on the asphalt, shattering its face.”

The museum is located in Zagreb, Croatia but if you happen to be in London, The National Centre for Craft & Design will be host to some of the pieces until April 15, 2012.

*photos curtesy of the Museum of broken relationships

*read the full story by Darko bandic

Pop Art your Valentine’s Day

Pop Art your Valentine’s Day with some Robert Indiana inspired swag. Here are some of our favorite gifts inspired by the famous sculpture in Philadelphia’s Love Park. After all, art is a beautiful expression of our inward desires.

1. Robert Indiana Converse Collection

2. Love Sign

3. Love Macbook Decal

4. Love Pillow

Click here to see the staff’s entire list of picks.

Source: hahamag.com