Tag Archives: art
Piranesi’s fireworks at NYPL
The Fireworks Above Castel Sant’Angelo, Francesco Piranesi, c.1781 I’m much more familiar with Piranesi’s doom-laden etchings of fantastical prisons, but this turned up in the New York Public Library’s recent acquisitions, and now it’s over here, brightening the place up. … more…
lens culture: Paris Photo 2007 Preview
lens culture presents 120 images, cherry-picked from Paris Photo 2007, which is apparently the largest photography fair in the world. Most of the selections are more or less contemporary, but then the Hans Bellmer doll showed up. Which got me … more…
Galleria Divinorum
1997 – Inspired by conscious dreaming, a series of paintings made over a 3 year period while working as a screenprinter. Mainly airbrushed acrylics on board. I buy a computer and stop painting, spending the next 6 years in videogames … more…
Gallery of Book Trade Labels
Seven Roads Gallery of Book Trade Labels Book store and publishers’ labels, of which the one shown is the jewel, and used at the front of the site for good reason. As an inveterate collector of old books, I expect … more…
links for 2007-08-20: book art, depression
Haydeé Rovirosa Gallery sculptural fun with old books, by Brian Dettmer (tags: art books Brian-Dettmer) 3quarksdaily – Selected Minor Works: Is Depression a Medical Condition? (tags: depression psychology drugs philosophy)
APOLITEWINTER
Sink, James Jean and Kenichi Hoshine, from -apolitewinter-, 2006 (via suzanne g)
Mattia Biagi – Black Tar Works
More cuddly toy abuse by them Evil Contemporary So-Called Artists: Biagi’s idea of the TAR collection was born during a visit to the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. Entranced by the texture of the mysterious tar bubbling up … more…
Ceramic jellyfish
Ceramic Jellyfish, Alissa Coe and Carly Waito, 2007 They go very nicely with the colour scheme around here, no? (via Kircher Society)
Strange beasts
???? Hajime Emoto makes monsters out of paper and bamboo. The site is entirely in Japanese, but here’s a Google translation of the index page (via Bioephemera – a new blog to me, found in peacay’s recent collection of links, … more…