The Tumblr of Words without Borders

Images from the website of Jamal Penjweny, an Iraqi Kurdish artist who took the cover photo for our April 2013: Writing from Iraq Issue of Words without Borders. 

“El Aullido”, a short film by Frederic Amat. Come see his piece “Las Mil y una Noches nº30”, the cover art for our March 2013: Spain’s Great Untranslated Issue of Words without Borders. 

Today we’ve looked back to find the absolute best Google literature in translation doodles of the year!

In no particular order (Left to Right):

Alessandro Manzoni (Italy); Fernando Pessoa (Portugal); Janus Korczak (Poland); Pablo Neruda (Chile); Alexander Pushkin (Russia); Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Russia); Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina); Ramón Gómez de la Serna (Spain); Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (France); Hans Christian Andersen (Denmark); Josef Lada (Czech Republic); Samuil Marshak (Russia); Cesar Vallejo (Peru); Italo Calvino (Italy); Juan Rulfo (Mexico); Shinichi Hoshi (Japan).

Visit Words Without Borders now to read and learn more about literature in translation!

Public light installation made using 10,000 discarded library books by Luzinterruptus (2012)

(via uglyducklingpresse)

“Sky Ladder” a short film about Cai Guo-Qiang and his gunpowder drawings at MOCA Los Angeles. Come see a photo of his installation “Endless”, the cover art for our September 2012: Writing from the Silk Road Issue of Words without Borders.

Cai Guo-Qiang’s “Mystery Circle”, an Explosion Event for The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Come see his cover art for our September 2012: Writing from the Silk Road Issue of Words without Borders. 

Queer Issue III cover artist Matt Lipps - An Interview

DAILYSERVING   An international Publication for Contemporary Art

Matt Lipps’ newest body of work HORIZON/S, flips the traditional mode of institutional curating on its head. In this series, Lipps appropriates content from a late 1950s arts and culture publication that promises to offer a curated selection of international culture that will add a sense of sophistication to anyone’s taste. From these images, Lipps’ playfully explores what happens to the meaning of certain objects and images when you remix them into new systems and catagories – altering both content and context.