May 18, 2012
- Shark teeth and pheasant feathers in work by a UK artist
50-million-year-old shark teeth and thousands of turkey, pheasant and coque feathers are just a few of the materials comprising the work of UK artist...
May 14, 2012
- Artist Daniel Buren plants a forest of candy-colored sunshades for "Exentrique(s), travail in situ" at the Grand Palais
Following the installation by Anish Kapoor in 2011, ...
May 10, 2012
- Bizarre sculpture abounds at NADA's first NYC art fair
In our second look at NADA's first annual art fair in New York City, we take a step back from the white gallery wall and focus on some of the more colorful, sculptural showings. Materials like hair, blood, crystals, broccoli and fake fur had us and everyone else gawking. Here, a selection of three-dimensional standouts.
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April 21, 2012
- Remembering Dick Clark, Vernacular Typography, Pulitzer Prize Photos and more in our weekly web roundup
1. Aquadom
The world's largest cylindrical aquarium is one of many amenities at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Berlin, where 260,000 gallons of water house 1,500 fish. Scuba diving in the...
April 2, 2012
- The magic-surreal, inflatable neo-dada work of a still life sculptor
by Perrin Drumm
Rachel de Joode is a Berlin-based sculptor who specializes in still lifes made from materials like a stack of Kraft singles, an oozing banana, a wooden club piercing a pile...
March 26, 2012
- Light play and voyeurism in Dan Graham's latest collection of glass sculptures
The new show by Dan Graham at the Lisson Gallery in London is at once predictable and unexpected. Those who have known...
March 15, 2012
- Interactive new media artist Gabriel Barcia-Colombo takes on television's digital takeover
As a 2012 TED Fellow and teacher at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, interactive video artist Gabriel Barcia-Colombo is deeply involved in the cultural and artistic exploration of communications technologies. Working primarily with video sculpture...
March 2, 2012
- Ground up bones and porcelain dust in a series of biological sculptures
In advance of his first solo exhibition "I stand and look at them long and long" at...
March 1, 2012
- Four dynamic contemporary American artists
Now in its 76th year, the annual compendium has gathered a new group of 51 contemporary artists to take over the museum through 27 May. While the focus on performance has become a central one in 2012, we found a group of four artists across different mediums—from sculpture, painting, film and living installation—each dynamic in their own right. Here, just a small selection of highlights from our walk through the...
February 21, 2012
- One-off woven wares formed from an ancient coiling technique
Once used for model-making,...
