Ever feel like your home is overwhelmed with books? (No? Really?) Well, Spanish artist Alicia Martin has taken inspiration from book sprawl and created massive outdoor sculptures that suggest the aftermath of a book-eating cyclone.
Since the late 1990s, Martin’s book sculptures have tumbled from windows or cascaded over archways throughout Europe, with three located in the heart of Madrid.
August 2017 Art News
Earlier this week, the Concord Museum in Massachusetts received a daguerreotype of Sophia Thoreau (1819-1876), younger sister of American essayist and naturalist Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862). The timing is fortuitous; July 12 marks the bicentennial of the birth of the author of Walden and Civil Disobedience.
A man who says he is a distant cousin of Jesse James has come forward with a never-before-seen ambrotype of the notorious outlaw, young and handsome with piercing light eyes.
Patrick Meguiar of Tennessee first heard about the antique photo from his grandfather, Maynard Meguiar, who would tell stories about their ancestral connection to James, …
On Saturday, July 24, at the Royal Sonesta in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Boston-based RR Auction held a robst sale of memorabilia relating to notorious mobsters and outlaws like Al Capone, Bonnie and Clyde, and John Dillinger.
"The power and energy of water have long been an alluring subject for artists. The museum’s collection is featured in this conceptual collage set to the introductory chapter of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick."
Credit: Minneapolis Institute of Art
Discussion on old master drawings.
Discussion on old master drawings.
Credit: Minneapolis Institute of Art
"From his London studio, artist Ori Gersht describes his practices in analogue and digital photography, filmmaking, and editing, and the environment in which he produces work. He highlights some of his still life works, including "Pomegranate" and "Big Bang," which illuminate the use of particular exposure lengths and pictorial qualities, and which focus on depictions of violence. Gersht also discusses his work in terms of truth, materiality, and abstraction, describing his studio as a personal oasis."
Credit: Guggenheim Museum
"Artist Nadia Kaabi-Linke talks about her work in relation to themes of layering, history, migration, and the state of being in between cultures. While in Venice for the city’s 2010 Biennale, migrant street vendors fleeing from police caught Kaabi-Linke’s attention and sparked the creation of "Flying Carpets." The artist relates this work to "Meinstein," a public art project also inspired by immigrant communities."
Credit: Guggenheim Museum
"June Yap, Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator, South and Southeast Asia, introduces the exhibition "No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia," and participating artists Sheela Gowda, Norberto Roldan, and Navin Rawanchaikul discuss their practices and featured works. Gowda talks about her photographs of the routes taken by bodies to a cemetery in Kashmir in "Loss," Roldan reveals the historical impetus for his painting "F-16," and Rawanchaikul explains his interest in personal and familial identity in 'Places of Rebirth.'"
Credit: Guggenheim Museum
