Wire Sculpture. Make an Awesome Lamp Out of Plastic Cups. This is What Happens When You Give Thousands of Stickers to Thousands of Kids. This December, in a surprisingly simple yet ridiculously amazing installation for the Queensland Gallery of Modern Ar, artist Yayoi Kusama constructed a large domestic environment, painting every wall, chair, table, piano, and household decoration a brilliant white, effectively serving as a giant white canvas.
Over the course of two weeks, the museum’s smallest visitors were given thousands upon thousands of colored dot stickers and were invited to collaborate in the transformation of the space, turning the house into a vibrantly mottled explosion of color. How great is this? Given the opportunity my son could probably cover the entire piano alone in about fifteen minutes. Starrynight_vangogh_big.jpg (JPEG Image, 1879x1500 pixels) - Scaled (40. Art of contribution.
William Bennett Gallery - Salvador Dali - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Portfolio. Letter from Mick Jagger to Andy Warhol, 1969. Galleries: Cat by Yoshitomo Nara from Galleri Bo Bjerggaard. Edo Pop: a contemporary spin on an old art form. One of the great strengths of the Edo Pop exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts is that it doesn’t simply present the art of the Edo period (1600-1868), but connects it to art being made today.
The final two galleries of the show are dedicated to contemporary artists whose work has been strongly influenced by the Japanese woodblock prints. And it’s not hard to see similarities between the Edo period of Japan and modern Western culture, including hedonism, consumerism, and escapism. One for the Money, Two Faux the Show (Still Pimpin’), after Katsukawa Shun’ei’s The Actor Ichikawa Komazo III, 2006 Iona Rozeal Brown In her work “One for the Money, Two Faux the Show (Still Pimpin’),” Iona Rozeal Brown explores what Hip Hop culture looks like when it’s taken out of context.