Caddisfly larvae build protective cases using materials found in their environment. Artist Hubert Duprat supplied them with gold leaf and precious stones. This is what they created.
(Source: neil-gaiman)
Melted playground slides following an arson
Shooting into the Corner by Anish Kapoor
Drift by Snarkitecture consists of 500 cylindrical white inflatable vinyl tubes, attached together and lifted up to create areas of circulation and invite visitors to sit and rest in this floating environment.
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Shirin Neshat. The Detroit Institute of Arts debuts a mid-career survey of Neshat’s workon Sunday, April 7. The exhibition, organized by curator Rebecca R. Hart, remains on view through July 7. The museum has published this catalogue in conjunction with the show.
Neshat is one of the most prominent Iranians living in the West. Neshat has been the subject of major survey exhibitions at museums in Spain, Germany, England, Italy, Mexico, Canada and the United States. Among many other honors, she won the Silver Lion at the 2009 Venice International Film Festival for “Women Without Men” and the First International Award at the 1999 Venice Biennale. She was a guest on Episode No. 11 of The MAN Podcast when she debuted her “The Book of Kings” series of photographs at New York’s Barbara Gladstone Gallery.
On the second segment, artist Kelly Richardson discusses the mid-career survey of her work that’s at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo through June 9. Titled “Legion,” the exhibition was organized by Alistair Robinson for the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art in Sunderland, England. The Albright is the exhibition’s only U.S. stop. The show is accompanied by a catalogue titled “Kelly Richardson: The Last Frontier.” More information on Richardson and her work is available on her website. Extended clips from several of her works are available on Vimeo, including The Erudition, Mariner 9, Leviathan and Twilight Avenger.
How to listen: Download the show to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe to The MAN Podcast via iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher or RSS. See images of art discussed on the program.
Zahid Mövla
Untitled. 2013
Acrylic, gesso on canvas, 40x30cm
Melissa Dubbin & Aaron S. Davidson - Volumes for Sound and Smoke (2010)
Drawing Machine by Eske Rex
Alejandro Guijarro - Momentum (2010-12)
“The artist travelled to the great quantum mechanics institutions of the world and, using a large-format camera, photographed blackboards as he found them. Momentum displayed the photographs in life-size.
Before he walked into a lecture hall Guijarro had no idea what he might find. He began by recording a blackboard with the minimum of interference. No detail of the lecture hall was included, the blackboard frame was removed and we are left with a surface charged with abstract equations. Effectively these are documents. Yet once removed from their institutional beginnings the meaning evolves. The viewer begins to appreciate the equations for their line and form. Color comes into play and the waves created by the blackboard eraser suggest a vast landscape or galactic setting. The formulas appear to illustrate the worlds of Quantum Mechanics. What began as a precise lecture, a description of the physicist’s thought process, is transformed into a canvas open to any number of possibilities.”
1. Cambridge (2011)
2. Stanford (2012)
3. Berkeley I (2012)
4. Berkeley II (2012)
5. Oxford (2011)
The sheep had drowned while trying to cross a small canal in the meadow-swamp ‘Tøndermasken’ in southern Jylland in Denmark. Birds had eaten every part above the surface and everything under was left totally untouched. from the National Geographic Photo Contest 2012. Via TYWKIWDBI
Photo credit: Johannes Bojesen
Students Make Photos by Eating 35mm Film
Kingston University photography students Luke Evans and Josh Lake decided to turn themselves into human cameras by eating 35mm film squares and letting their bodies do the rest. The single film segments were first ingested, excreted (in a dark room) then washed.
