A Sudden Gust of Wind, the source material is a Nineteenth Century Japanese woodcut. Jeff Wall’s large-scale photographic tableaux, many made in the 1980s and ’90s, could perhaps be seen as a kind of bridge between work that uses appropriation as a way to explore ideas about authorship – a key concern in post-modernism – and […]
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Alice Aycock, Paper Chase – Park Ave., NY
Called “Park Avenue Paper Chase,” and stretching from 52nd Street to 66th, they are inspired variously by tornadoes, dance movements and drapery folds, and will be up until July 20 .
Making Pottery Art
Inspired by Art Nouveau and the British Arts and Crafts movement, these artists were trying to do for the decorative arts what Post-Impressionists like van Gogh and Cézanne and Symbolists like Moreau and Redon were doing for painting around the same time: rescuing their medium from stuffy, fussy and vapid forms of bourgeois gentility. […]
Ferran Adria, chef: Drawing Center, Plating Diagrams
Circles and sketchy colors make for an eye catching composition. These are plating diagrams from the chef.
Pawel Althamer: The Neighbors
Lovely sculptures of people, with real faces and taffy-like sinewy body forms.