Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass: Furniture, furnishings and films about Yin Yu Tang are now on view in the Ground Level Chinese art gallery, adjacent to the new Double Happiness exhibition. Also, please enjoy interpretive materials, objects and a video about Yin Yu Tang on the Ground Level outside Morse Auditorium and on the Level…
Month: January 2015
father’s perspective
“Drei” is the third segment in photographer Fred Huening’s visual trilogy. The earlier portions, “Einer” and “Zwei,” followed Huening as he fell in love with his girlfriend and later, more tragically, as the two gave birth to a still born child. The final installment captures life after the birth of his healthy son, documenting the…
doctors enlist paintings to hone skills
More physicians are offering a different perspective on paintings by ‘diagnosing’ pieces of art. Article by Amy Dockser Marcus, Wall Street Journal, Dec. 31, 2014. When it comes to art, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And so, apparently, is a medical diagnosis. Rheumatologist Sara E. Walker spent her life doing research on and treating…
turner masterpiece sells for £30.3m, setting world auction record for artist
Rome, From Mount Aventine was one of the last great works in private hands and remains in exceptional condition One of the last great Turner masterpieces remaining in private hands set a world auction record for the artist tonight, Sotheby’s said. Rome, From Mount Aventine, sold for £30.3m including buyer’s premium, easily beating its estimate…
the mirror man: an interview with douglas gordon
The Scottish artist is flooding New York’s Park Avenue Armory to create a giant looking-glass surrounding the pianist Hélène Grimaud By Louisa Buck. Features, Issue 263, December 2014, Published online: 10 December 2014 {post via The Art Newspaper}, featured image: An installation view of tears become… streams become… at the Park Avenue Armory. Photo by James Ewing….
origami: a blend of sculpture + mathematics
Artist and MIT professor Erik Demaine makes flat geometric diagrams spring into elegant, three-dimensional origami sculptures. By Marina Koren, SMITHSONIAN.COM, JANUARY 23, 2013 The shape of a Pringle, mathematically speaking, is called a hyperbolic paraboloid. Artists have been folding paper into this shape for years. The twist? Hyperbolic paraboloids shouldn’t exist in origami—it’s impossible to make such…
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