Ablution is a series of paintings that derive from performances that submerges the body into specific sites, addressing rituals of cleansing and maintenance, focusing on gender, labor, sexuality and race. What does it mean to be clean in today’s society?

Summer is here, so if you weren't sad enough about not hanging out in a swimming pool right now- check out these paintings by Sarah Harvey. She says of her work, "My paintings of figures floating are predominantly self portraits. I aim to create paintings that arouse both a sense of well being and pleasure, whilst simultaneously suggesting notions of insecurity, fantasy and sexuality..."

Hello. I am writing to you from the near future. More specifically, a futuristic futon that comes pre-soaked in 40 water & Top Ramen.

You know that feeling you get when you have been fooled or gotten over on?  At first I thought Bne was pulling a fast one, I mean the pictures are bizarre, yet it is an honest and true project.  The man responsible for putting his stickers all over the globe has decided to give back to those in less fortunate positions and without water. Bne Water is a registered non-profit organization dedicated to bringing, clean, safe water and sanitation to people living in extreme poverty.  

Just when you think art can't go any farther, someone makes a underwater sculpture installation that doubles as a coral reef. Not to just in one place either, but in multiple bodies of water across the world. And then you just have to say, Jason de Caires Taylor, you are on the trip of something else. Images after the jump . . .