Sentences with phrase «black obelisk»

Olu Oguibe's work was among the most prominently displayed in the city of Kassel, Germany, during Documenta 14 — whenever you got off the tram at Königsplatz, you saw his gigantic black obelisk, inscribed with words from the Book of Matthew written in... Read More

The story takes a page out of Space 2001, with the protagonists encountering a towering black obelisk endowed with some inscrutable alien power.

On display at the British Museum is the astonishing black obelisk of Shalmaneser III.

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Among his six sculptures, the Broken Obelisk also known as Black Needle is the most famous and the largest.

Though the «constructs» appear small and fragile, they are hard assemblages: mesh screens, plaster obelisks and cones, metal plates, black rods, and Perspex are meticulously put together to create geometric forms.

Jaworska creates a site - specific installation of black sculptures that reference common architectural elements, such as arches, gates, obelisks, and signs.

For art lovers, many of whom drift down the street from the Menil Collection, the chapel is the place to see Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk - the big sculpture in the outdoor reflecting pond - and the 14 paintings by Mark Rothko that, depending on how you look at them: a) are hardly anything but big black rectangles; b) foretold the painter's suicide; c) were Rothko's crowning achievement; or d) any or all of the above.