Animal-Human Hybrids Spotted on New York Subway in Surreal Paintings by Matthew Grabelsky. Kathrine Barbro Bendixen uses cow intestines to create sculptural lights. Discarded cow intestines are given a new life in the intricate lighting installations of Danish designer Kathrine Barbro Bendixen.
The Studio KBB founder cleans and reinflates the intestines, creating translucent tubes that naturally twist around an LED lighting fixture. Her multi-layered compositions create unusual lighting effects and draw attention to the natural details of the organic material. Enormous Panels of Patchworked Fabric Give Colorful Temporary Makeovers to Public Buildings. Crocheted Hams and Hairdryers by Trevor Smith Evoke Memories of Mid-Century Domesticity. Twisted and Layered Balloons Form Eye-Popping Animal Sculptures by Masayoshi Matsumoto. Hand-Painted Ceramics of Everyday Objects Inspired by Classical Chinese Paintings.
Tumblr. Microsculpture: Macro Photographs of Iridescent Insects Composed of 10,000 Images by Levon Biss. Luminous Portraits of Sliced Fruit Glow Like Stained Glass Windows. A 38-Foot-Tall Whale Made From 10,000 Pounds of Plastic Waste Surfaces in Bruges. Gnarled Eyes and Knotted Ears Emerge from Sculptural Portraits Made With Found Wood. A Project to Immortalize David Bowie in Traditional Woodblock Prints. Bruce Springsteen: See Intimate David Rose Portraits. Philip Roth's Brilliance Was to Make America Uncomfortable. A Colorful Medley of Inventive Type Animations Puts the Alphabet in Motion. Macro Infrared Photographs Unlock the Depth of Green in a Stunning Array of Canary Island Plants. The Impact of Public Art Projects on Human Health. Art has the power to connect us to places, to people and even to ourselves.
Public art is a fascinating mix of political, sociopolitical and cultural dynamics that have a strong emotional effect, representing much more than surface beauty. We’d be wise to create more. The influence and importance of public art projects have been well-known for centuries. With the Italian Renaissance representing the golden-age of public art in Europe and President Roosevelt’s push for it in the early 1930s with the New Deal, governments and societies have embraced the effects of urban imagery for a variety of reasons — primarily the realization that art impacts people as much as people impact art. Creating Wall Murals Built to Last at Shriners Hospitals - PolyVision. With Shriners Hospitals For Children Wanting To Create A Healing Environment For Its Patients, They Paired Up With Polyvision And Designtex To Create Wall Murals Built To Last.
Experiencing the public art of Rotterdam. 5 Inspiring Public Art Installations in Rotterdam – Terence Manafort. For art lovers, Europe has no shortage of places to visit.
But in the light of cities like Florence, Rome, and Paris, many other European cities with excellent collections of art often get overlooked. Take Rotterdam for example. Not only does Rotterdam have several museums to visit, you don’t even have to enter a museum to enjoy a world-class collection of art. 10 Unmissable Public Sculptures in Rotterdam. Gargantuan Felt Masks of Beautifully Disturbing Characters by Paolo Del Toro. Abstract Art Sold for Record Prices – Studio SV. The past few years have been extremely exciting for art collectors.
With auction houses such as Christie’s and Sotheby’s consistently offering up some truly remarkable and rare pieces of art, several auctions have ended in record-breaking bidding wars around the world. In November 2017, Salvator Mundi, the last known painting created by Leonardo da Vinci, made headlines when it sold for $450.3 million, making it the most expensive painting ever sold at auction. Leonardo da Vinci Painting Sells for $450.3 Million, Shattering Auction Highs. Basquiat painting fetches record $110.5 million at New York auction. Miniature Paintings on Tea Bags by Ruby Silvious. Walk Inside a Warehouse-Sized Kaleidoscopic Painting by Katharina Grosse.
Geometric Birds and Other Designs Formed From Bright Folded Paper. A Collision of Flora, Fauna, and the Cosmic in Tattoos by Pony Reinhardt. Brittle Skeletons Crocheted from Discarded Textiles by Caitlin McCormack. Start Seeing Art. Discovering Minneapolis Through Public Art – Terence Manafort – Medium. From the opera houses that filled the city in the 1800s to Prince’s Paisley Park recording studios, Minneapolis has a long history of being a hub for culture and creativity in the Midwest.
As one of the country’s largest markets for live theater and home to some of the largest museums in the United States, you don’t have to look very far to find examples of Minneapolis’s artistic legacy. New online tours offer guide to public art in Minneapolis. Minneapolis is loaded with public art.
Now there are maps to help people find it. The city and the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board on Thursday launched new online interactive tours of 300 pieces of publicly accessible artwork across the city. The idea is to help locals and visitors easily explore artworks by car, bike or on foot. Our favorite Minneapolis public art: a slide show. Bill Kelley | Wednesday, October 05, 2011 Following our selection of some favorite public artworks in Saint Paul two weeks ago, here is our take on the beautiful and the quirky in Minneapolis outdoor art--minus the Spoonbridge and Cherry, which is terrific but a little overexposed.
(We're also leaving out the rest of the Walker Art Center's Minneapolis Sculpture Garden--our premier public art showcase--in favor of works scattered around the city.) Home - Public Art Saint Paul. Museums for Art, History & Science - Meet Minneapolis. Mill City Museum The story of a mighty river, a young city and how one product - flour - fueled the growth of Minneapolis.
Mill City Museum's 12,000 square feet of exhibit space is packed with fun for visitors of all ages. Read More Science Museum of Minnesota At the Science Museum of Minnesota, the science that shapes our daily lives comes to life through hands-on exhibits, larger-than-life Omnitheater films, and a world-class collection of fossils and artifacts. Read More Minnesota History Center An interactive museum with both permanent and changing exhibits. I shot Andy Warhol: photographer Billy Name on drugs and shootings at the Factory. Billy Name is lying in a bed in a ward of Mid-Hudson Regional Hospital in Poughkeepsie, upstate New York, hooked up to a saline drip.
He is not looking good: his face is pale, his skin sallow, his voice almost inaudibly low. It turns out that, as I was crossing the Atlantic the previous day, Billy was being admitted for extreme dehydration, a raft of recurring illnesses, including diabetes, having taken their toll on his 75-year-old body. Things did not bode well for our interview. The following afternoon, though, I return to the hospital with Billy’s agent and close friend, Dagon James, to find him sitting by his bed, still pale, but happy to see us – and to talk.
Andy Warhol Wanted Lou Reed to Be His 'Mickey Mouse' - VICE. Behind the Scenes at Andy Warhol's Silver Factory. Of the many faces who passed through Andy Warhol’s silver Factory in the swinging 1960s and 70s, Billy Name was undoubtedly one of its most important unsung heroes. Partly because he was always armed with a camera; as the story goes, when Warhol first picked up a movie camera he thrust his old Pentax SLR at Name, with the instruction: “Billy, you do the photography now, because I’m going to do movies.” Name had an eye for taking photographs, and he duly assumed the role of unofficial photographer in his years hanging out at the Factory, diligently snapping away at the strange and wonderful characters and goings-on. “As I recall he was always at the factory,” John Cale remembers in his foreword to new book Billy Name: The Silver Age.
Behind the walls of Andy Warhol’s secretive Factory. Stephen Shore, who quietly documented the glittering figures of Andy Warhol’s Factory between 1965 and 1967, has to go down in history as the least fazed 17-year-old boy to have ever come into contact with extremely cool people. As the influential photographer recalls in Factory: Andy Warhol, the just-published treatise by Phaidon, he was granted permission to take photographs of Warhol and his inner circle by simply walking up to the artist and asking if he could. Their collaboration began around a month later, in 1965, with a phonecall from Warhol to Shore: “We’re filming at a restaurant called L’Avventura; do you want to come and take pictures?”
For the next three years, Shore would regularly visit the Factory and take candid photographs of the faces that, much like himself, were drawn to what was going on there. For Shore, speaking over the phone as Phaidon’s tome is released, these are simply events that happened over 50 years ago. Listed: the world’s most-expensive paintings sold at auction. After Leonardo da Vinci’s portrait of Christ, Salvator Mundi, smashed the record for the most expensive painting sold at auction, we take a look at some of the artworks to have previously held the title. We have included the sale prices, which do not take into account inflation. Salvator Mundi | Leonardo da Vinci | (1490-1519) | sold for $450.3m (€382m)