An installation by French contemporary artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, The Curve is an aviary inhabited by 40 zebra finches with a constructed landscape of electric guitars as perches and cymbals as feeders. As the birds socialise and feed they settle on the instruments, pluck the strings and peck cymbals creating a ‘chance composition’.
If the thought of yet another lunch break or evening is to be spent idly flitting from the sources of blips on your social radar then perhaps you would enjoy the challenge in helping the Victoria and Albert museum to find the best crop (or view) of their collection of 116867 items. Once past a simple […]
Ranking fifth most ‘valuable’ item, and filed away in the mysterious Totem category on the Significant Objects site is this, an exemplar of kitsch and oddly proportioned, Pink Horse. Pink Horse with a story by Kate Bernheimer That the Pink Horse sold for a shade over $100, with the original cost a mere hundreth of […]
Naoko Ito Ubiquitous 2009 As part of the Urban Nature series, Naoko Ito took a six foot tree branch cut it in several pieces. Then, with each piece trapped into it’s own jar, mounted the whole set to recreate the branches original form. Via Neatorama
A poster the recipient completes by revealing spot-varnished type with hands made dirty by handling the poster, the back of which is coated with powdered pigment. Created by Roland Tiangco.
Using minimal elements, such as black electric tape and foamcore, Stocker manipulates our perceptions of space, creating fragmented rooms. Stocker’s large-scale architectural forms feel like real-life, 3-D optical illusions, or the broken edges of a virtual maze.
Spanning Cro-Magnon cave art to Modernism and The Computer this guide to the history of visual communication whilst still very much a overview rather than a detailed study does contain an excellent source and range of images to support the text.
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