MARINA ZURKOW
I hadn’t quite connected big box stores to container ships, and the idea of non-space and non-place, til i came across this still. Marc Augé writes about non-place in his eponymous book on Supermodernity , and Robert Smithson of course said it first (“non-site, the gallery as a kind of blank): which is from the movie The…
This via Genevieve Hoffman, who snapped the pic at Printed Matter artist’s bookstore in NYC: And this from my recent hike in Tent Rocks, New Mexico:
Stylish surgical masks by Yoriko Yoshida ::: Pink Tentacle.
Canon Pixma Sound Sculptures from Dentsu London on Vimeo. Canon Pixma Sound Sculptures from Dentsu London on Vimeo. SOMEONE should have a heyday doing a cultural analysis /slash/ mega deconstruction of this incredibly seductive work. It ain’t gonna be me, because I am way too busy nostologizing (tx Ruth Ozeki for the term). I’m only…
..from the fantastic artists / visulaizers Robert Graves and Didier Madoc-Jones. London Futures is a new exhibit on display at the Museum Of London featuring images depicting the possibilities that could await London in a future devastated by climate change, as imagined by artists Robert Graves and Didier Madoc-Jones. The gallery showcases 14 digitally crafted…
There’s an exhibit up at the Met of Luo Ping’s works until January 10 … a vivid description of him, his wife, his master + context: WIT AND NON-CONFORMIST, bohemian and connoisseur, devout Buddhist and self-proclaimed expert on the supernatural, the 18th-century Chinese painter, Luo Ping was all this and more. Luo was a native…
Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber (1739-1810), student of Linnaeus: The above illustrations from ‘Die Saugthiere in Abbildungen‘ at Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Lyon (named as ‘Histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes‘ – either misslabelled or this is the title of the french edition) — there are about 200 illustrations available from the original 775 engravings published: Volume…
I was taken by this image from the NY Times today: And am thinking about Mitch Said‘s ITP thesis project that can imaginatively transform the streets. And also Jeremy Rotzstain’s Cutevertisements:
Also at the National Science Library, this book of Conrad Gesner’s beautiful 16th century animal woodcuts, real and imagined (so much was hearsay anyway).
Fritz Haeg’s Animal Estates “produces events and exhibitions to consider the animals that we share our cities with, and creates dwellings for animals that have been unwelcome or displaced by humans. As animal habitats dwindle daily, Animal Estates proposes the reintroduction of animals back into our cities, strip malls, garages, office parks, freeways, front yards,…
Alexis Rockman has a show of new paintings at Nyehaus Gallery in New York. Bruce Sterling wrote that: “Though he is known for the searing clarity of his paintings, there are things below the waterline that he does not paint.Years ago, the alligator made up his mind about these central issues in his oeuvre. He…
…I owe the idea of an internet vitrine to Molly Dilworth, who suggested I start putting all my crazy greedy research up in one place. Thanks MD. Her amazing paintings can be seen HERE. And this is one of them: