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I bring you the finest Internet reading in my weekly Linkfest

“Composition dans un cercle”, Sophie Taeuber-Arp (via Wikiart)

Okay, it’s laaaate Sunday and the official industrial-age workweek is about to start.

Let’s instead chill out with the finest Internet reading …

… in my weekly Linkfest. I am knocking myself out for you fine people, collecting this stuff!

To begin …

1) 🎨 The geometric art of Sophie Taeuber-Arp

Somehow I’d never heard of Sophie Taeuber-Arp, but I just stumbled across her fantastic work. She was a Dadaist who worked in many media — including sculpture, textiles, dance, and architecture.

But I’m particularly enchanted by her visual art and her needlework, which channels geometric shapes so colorful and patterned that they look like digital sketches done in P5 — as with “Composition dans un cercle”, above.

Wikiart has a bunch of her stuff, and there’s a terrific appreciation of her work in the Guardian. As the art critic Laura Cumming writes …

Her paint colours are delicate as a Klee, occasionally combined with gold or silver leaf. And then, just as your eye is…