In June, I visited the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. What a nice surprise it was to see an installation by Andy Goldsworthy! It’s called “Roof“, installed in 2004-2005. Click through images to enlarge. The panorama above was stitched together in the iPhone app Photosynth (something cool from Microsoft, made for the iPhone?!). [...]
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Convergence: relics, paperweights
Holy relics at the basilica of Notre Dame in South Bend, IN Paperweight collection at the Art Institute of Chicago (Inspired by the convergences at McSweeney’s)
Monkey martini
Here is another photograph I took at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. This painting has been titled “Sense of Taste.” Provenance: the workshop of Jan Brueghel the Younger, mid-17th century. [Click through for hi-res.] You can say a lot about this painting — the representation of the gastronomic luxuries of the 1600s, the slightly off-kilter [...]
Floor, by Do-Ho Suh
I went to the Indianapolis Museum of Art this week. With 54,000 works of art in its collection, it’s extremely impressive, and the building and grounds are both beautiful and expansive. It was definitely worth the two-hour drive. Here is one of my favorites from the contemporary art wing: A photo of the placard:
WPA posters
Created in 1935, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) promoted education, art, health, and culture in the US. States received subsidies for programs, and they hired poster artists to publicize their events. The resulting artwork is not only beautiful in its own right, but also serves as a window into a very different time. Here are [...]
