MetaFilter posts tagged with exhibition

But why is the girl in the ravishing red Lego dress so sad?

misha — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:16:30 -0800

In Pieces, on display at the OpenHouse gallery in SOHO through March 17th. New York based LEGO sculptor Nathan Sawaya and Australian photographer Dean West (Warning: annoying Flash interface) create magic together. The intriguing combination of Lego bricks and photography draws you in. The untold stories behind the stark tableaux make you want to linger. Here's how the artists put them all together. (Nathan Sawaya, previously)

Would you say no to having David Bowie on your Coffee Table?

Faintdreams — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 11:53:32 -0800

Along with a career retrospective, the V&A Museum in London will publish an extensive photo book covering Bowie's career to date. Graphic design studio Barnbrook has designed the 'David Bowie is' book which accompanies the V&A's exhibition of the same name. The book is the first ever to be produced with full access to the David Bowie. "Drawing inspiration from songs, costumes, films, portraits, landmarks and more, we created a set of graphic elements to use throughout the book," says Abbott. "These are used as background textures and in graphic juxtapositions to introduce a playful, pop sensibility" Although standard copies will be available from the V& A shop, particularly avid collectors can buy one of the 500 limited edition prints on pre-order. Although at £395 per copy you'd have to be a big Bowie fan. The non-limited edition version of the book comes in cloth bound hardback edition and retails for a much more reasonable £30.00 "The Collector's Special Edition will be clothbound and feature a lithographic print signed by David Bowie himself and bound into the book. Each edition will be numbered, cased in Perspex and handfinished. Only 500 copies will be printed. Priced at £395, DAVID BOWIE IS Collector's Special Edition will be published on 23rd March" The 'David Bowie is' exhibition will run from 23rd March until the 11th August 2013 at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London [UK] A specialised font called 'Albertus' was designed by Barnbrook for the book. Barnbrook are known for their font creation and typography and have been mentioned on Metafilter previously.

She looked good coming down those stairs

flapjax at midnite — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 06:46:13 -0800

One hundred years ago today in 1913, an art exhibition opened in New York City that shocked the country, changed our perception of beauty and had a profound effect on artists and collectors. The International Exhibition of Modern Art — which came to be known, simply, as the Armory Show — marked the dawn of Modernism in America.

Sweet transformations, as art

Brandon Blatcher — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 04:12:04 -0800

Created by using real toffee.

Artistic SeaSnails build other shells into their shells SL

maiamaia — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 08:52:51 -0800

Artistic SeaSnails build other shells into their shells SL

Airfix - Making History

infini — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 12:23:30 -0800

The Royal Air Force Museum London will be launching in Summer 2013 a signature exhibition commemorating and celebrating the national institution that is Airfix. This will chart the history of this Great British Institution by displaying original Box Art as well as Airfix’s most popular models from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s in the Museum’s Art Gallery. In preparation, this post will focus upon the history* of the company, its founding in the late 1940s by a Hungarian immigrant, through its boom years in the 1960s, the later years of decline and under investment, and finally its current resurgence in the market place. Look at the ways in which Airfix products are developed, including the painstaking research and the cutting edge technology used to design and manufacture modern kits. (text inspired by numerous sources) *While technically accurate, this entry has a glaring error regarding the founder's names.

Common Ground

infini — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 04:51:11 -0800

The Most Intriguing New Global Architecture Ideas You've Never Heard Of Grammatical errors belong solely to the editors of the publication.

The Breaking Bad Art Project

Egg Shen — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:18:38 -0800

The Breaking Bad Art Project is on exhibit at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles through August 26. The acclaimed television drama has also inspired derivative works in other media.

Fotos de Frida

zarq — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:46:10 -0800

Frida Kahlo produced art that was self-reflecting — 55 of her 143 known paintings were self-portraits. A cache of her 6,500 personal photographs was unsealed in 2007, and a small selection of those -- 259 total images -- are now on display in an exhibition entitled "Frida Kahlo: Her Photos," at the Artisphere in Arlington, VA until March 25th. Images: Washington Post, WJLA and NPR. PBS: Interview with exhibit curator Pablo Ortiz Monasterio. The exhibition was first shown at the Museo Frida Kahlo (at La Casa Azul.) Per the Washington Post, Kahlo took only some of the shots in the exhibition; some were uncredited, others were by "the most famous photographers of the day." Some were even annotated or sealed with her lipstick. AVN (Arlington county television) has a video from the opening. PBS has an additional set of photos from her personal collection, in a site associated with the 2005 documentary film, The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo, which can be viewed in its entirety on YouTube in six parts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Additional Photos: Frida Kahlo Fans. Frida, Previously on Metafilter

'For five weeks, the sun will never set on a Hirst spot.'

xowie — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 08:23:25 -0800

Hundreds of 'spot' paintings by Damien Hirst are currently on display in 8 cities on three continents.

Googly-enheim.

Miko — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 10:46:44 -0800

The Guggenheim Museum is claiming to be the first museum to begin issuing new exhibit catalogues as e-books for purchase. But even more exciting to the 20th century art history nerd, they've also partnered with the Internet Archive to offer free digitized versions of out-of-print catalogues going back to the 1930s. If you have trouble with the search, you're not alone. I did too. This is a hopeful sign - looking forward to many more museums following suit.

Library Science - Exhibition at New Haven Libraries

carter — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:53:48 -0800

Library Science is an exhibition at New Haven (Connecticut) libraries that contemplates our personal, intellectual and physical relationship to the library as this venerable institution—and the information it contains—is being radically transformed by the digital era. Some examples: Untitled (Suburban Homes) by Erica Baum, Hurricanes by Chris Coffin, and Chinese Library No. 46 by Xiaoze Xie.

American Sabor

Miko — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 06:10:32 -0800

American Sabor: Latinos in US Popular Music is a currently traveling Smithsonian exhibition exploring the wide range of Latino artists and influences which have shaped American pop music genres since WWII, from Alice Bag to Flaco Jimenez to Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass to Joan Baez. The website is rich with maps, interviews, videos, and music samples.

The 1967 International and Universal Exposition

Trurl — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:20:31 -0800

Still, Expo is regarded as the best world's fair ever. Its success changed the world's view of Canada, and more importantly, it changed the way Canadians viewed themselves. For the first time the country basked in the pride and the glory of its talents and accomplishments. A nation had come of age. (previously) Jeffrey Stanton has good articles on the construction, architecture, and multi-screen cinemas. Bonus trivia: Robert Altman's 1979 post-Ice Age apocalypse film Quintet was filmed in the Expo's wintertime ruins. He liked one pavilion's 18-foot tall glass photomurals so much that he salvaged them from demolition and installed them in his apartment.

Photographic Immortality

zarq — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 09:35:00 -0800

The Burns Archive is a collection of over 700,000 historical photographs that document disturbing subject matter: obsolete medical practices and experiments, death, disease, disasters, crime, revolutions, riots and war. Newsweek posted a select gallery this past October, as well as a video interview and walk-through with curator and collector Dr. Stanley B. Burns, a New York opthalmologist. (Via) (Content at links may be disturbing to some.) Blog, which notes that an exhibition of photos, "Sleeping Beauties" is currently being shown at the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery in Baltimore. Books with photos from the collection: * Sleeping Beauty II: Grief, Bereavement in Memorial Photography American and European Traditions * News Art: Manipulated Photographs from the Burns Archive * Deadly Intent: Crime & Punishment Photographs from the Burns Archive * Geisha: A Photographic History, 1872-1912

The Responsive Eye

ClanvidHorse — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 01:43:48 -0800

The Responsive Eye. Brian De Palma's 1966 film (25 mins) of the opening night of New York MOMA's 'The Responsive Eye' exhibition on op art.

One Language, Many Voices

Lezzles — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:10:30 -0800

Evolving English: The British Library's Evolving English exhibition runs until 3rd April but if you can't make it to London you can view the English language timeline, map your voice, or try this quiz on the website.

High fashion

Artw — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:00:24 -0800

A space wardrobe - images of the National Air and Space Museum’s collection of spacesuits from throughout the history of American space exploration.

The Viewer As Voyeur

zarq — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:14:36 -0800

Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera is an exhibition at the Tate Modern in London which examines voyeurism through the medium of photography. In addition to works from professionals such as Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lee Miller, Shizuka Yokomizo, Guy Bourdin, Nan Goldin and Robert Mapplethorpe, it includes amateur and CCTV "stolen" images taken both with and without the knowledge of their subjects -- all intended to "explore the uneasy relationship between making and viewing images that deliberately cross lines of privacy and propriety." There are 250 photographs in the exhibition, a representative sample from the last 150 years. The exhibition is currently on display at the Tate Modern in London, (until October 3rd,) and will then travel to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, opening October 30th. From the Museum’s exhibition guide:

"The exhibition is divided into five thematic sections: The Unseen Photographer, Celebrity and the Public Gaze, Voyeurism and Desire, Witnessing Violence, and Surveillance. In each case, the nature and character of invasive looking is evident not only in the images themselves, but also in the ways in which the viewer is implicated in acts of voyeurism."

* Review by the British Journal of Photography. * The Daily Beast: Article / Gallery (Mild Nudity, NSFW) * Review from the Telegraph / Gallery * The Guardian: Gallery. Accompanying article / review: One of the most difficult rooms contains journalistic images of death and violence and some people will undoubtedly whistle through the room, upset by awful images of suicide, execution and lynching. It includes images such as Tom Howard's electrocution of Ruth Snyder, from 1928, and Eddie Adams' haunting photograph of a Viet Cong officer being executed in 1968.

Cut & Paste.

grapefruitmoon — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:41:33 -0800

Cut & Paste - International exhibition of contemporary collage and assemblage is showing in Stockholm, Sweden (and also, on the interwebs). See it in person now through October 10.

You know, for kids

elgilito — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:34:38 -0800

Sex: wot's the big deal is a sex exhibition for kids currently taking place at the Cité des Sciences in Paris. Pre-teens can learn about love, puberty, making love and making babies, and they can also experiment a little bit. The show is based on Willies: a user's guide (in French: Le zizi sexuel) by Swiss comics creator Zep, and features the rising star of French playgrounds, Titeuf (NSFW unless you're a French preteen)

Vincent Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night

hortense — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:33:24 -0800

Explore painter Vincent Van Gogh's "nocturnal interiors and landscapes, which often combine with other longstanding themes of his art -- peasant life, sowers, wheatfields, and the encroachment of modernity on the rural scene." View "paintings, drawings, and letters from all periods of his career, as well as examples of the rich literary sources that influenced his work." Also includes audio commentary.flash. via Previous

Open-source online exhibit platform

Miko — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:40:31 -0800

Omeka is a newly available, open-source web platform, bringing good-looking, functional online exhibitry within reach of smaller museums, libraries, and arts groups. From the Center for History and New Media.

Amazing map exhibition

LobsterMitten — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:48:27 -0800

Maps: Finding our place in the world is an exhibit at the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, and it runs until this Sunday June 8. That page contains images of a few of the maps. One of the many great things included is an animated map of the US Civil War in 4 minutes (one week per second, timeline noted at bottom, casualty counter rolling in bottom right corner - info about this animation) The exhibition book was previously linked here; that site includes higher-resolution versions of some more of the maps. I was floored by all the stuff they have; in terms of the rarity of the stuff in it, and the geek-delight factor, I think it's probably the best gallery show I've ever seen. The show includes: maps made by Davinci, Geo Washington, Thos Jefferson, Abe Lincoln, Cortes, and others; the first geologic map; the 1982 first map of ARPAnet, a map of the distribution of whales in the Atlantic in the late 1700s commissioned by Ben Franklin; a Marshall islands stick map; a carved nubbly chunk of wood carved into a map of the coast of Greenland; maps sewn onto silk by medieval Mediterranean sailors; Japanese, Indian, medieval European pilgrimage maps; maps made by indigenous people on every inhabited continent; the first relief map; the chart Charles Lindbergh used on his transAtlantic flight; the map that settled the boundary of the US at the surrender at Yorktown; Lewis and Clark's map; the map that historians think is the oldest city map, on a clay tablet from Sumeria; demographic and experimental maps from the social consciousness movements of the late 19th c; the Minard map of Napoleon's Russian campaign (so praised by Edward Tufte); the first Mercator projection map; maps of fictional places made by Tolkien, Frank Baum, and others; and on and on. The show includes images from the Hubble telescope and local artists' alternative mappings of Baltimore, too. If you are interested in maps, history, or information design at all you should try to see this show; it is just breathtaking. The exhibit was organized by the Field Museum in Chicago, and was shown there first. I don't know if it's going to visit other cities; I believe I read something suggesting it wasn't, but I can't find confirmation of that now.

Do Your Strip Comic Exhibit

artifarce — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:04:09 -0800

Do Your Strip: A hopeful book and exhibition where 70 artists and illustrators invent a character, provide instructions on how to draw it, then create the first comic adventure. Exhibit-goers would then create additional stories with their favorite characters. All the characters, instructions, and first strips can be seen here [pdf]. My favorites? Toma and Yassine. Karine Bernadou. Mr. Clement. (links go to artists' personal websites)