Sentences with phrase «cabinet of curiosities»

While containing critical data for many scientific endeavors, most objects are quietly sitting in their own little cabinets of curiosity.

Installation view of Cabinet of Curiosities gallery 2015, Alexander McQueen Savage Beauty at the V&A.

A riveting artist whose dual investigations of ecological issues and archival resources have yielded everything from large - scale installations — entire overgrown felled trees, greenhouses, etc. — to 19th - century - style cabinets of curiosity containing a richly macabre array of dead animals that operate as invocations of both death and practical knowledge.

Presenting her ceramics on plinths and in cabinets of curiosities, Kristalova has developed a language that balances nature and memory.

Hirst's contemporary cabinet of curiosities is on display at the legendary Parisian house of taxidermy, Deyrolle.

Michael Crowder: Retro - spectacle The mixed - media sculptor's mini-retrospective will include an immersive cabinet of curiosities with hundreds of cast glass butterflies.

The Philosophy Chamber An 18th - century cabinet of curiosities at Harvard University is re-created in an exhibition that looks at the history of collecting.

The works evoke the sensations one might have experienced in a 19th century cabinet of curiosities or magic lantern show.

This section also features an an octagonal 18th - century - style cabinet of curiosities accommodating a bizarre collection of «nature's wonders».

As a collector of diverse objects, Maleonn puts forward a real cabinet of curiosities filled with antiques, stuffed animals, skeletons, masks, colourful marbles and other toys, old posters and anonymous photographs.

To succeed, MR games must transform from cabinets of curiosities to fun emotionally compelling interactive narrative spaces.

Part cabinet of curiosities, part ready - made surreal museum; Glassford's assemblage offers a unique speculative, formal and... Continued

Filmed in his New York studio, artist Hiroshi Sugimoto gives a tour of his private cabinet of curiosities which includes meteorites, stone age tools, and whimsical toys.

The historical cabinet of curiosities remains a good emblem of that process.»

Eliza's Peculiar Cabinet of Curiosities is a collaboration with the Chipstone Foundation and is made possible through the generous support of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, Columbia College Chicago, and the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts.

A new Site Specific project by Matthew Jensen at Green - Wood Cemetery where he has assembled a room - sized cabinet of curiosities drawing from specimens and photographs amassed in his many walks through the cemetery, as well as from Green - Wood's rarely seen collection of fine art and historic objects

The darkened walkway culminates at the underside of the mysterious embedded object, revealing itself to be a glass cabinet of curiosities, swarming with thousands upon thousands of bees.

Anchored by a display that will present works like a whimsical cabinet of curiosities, this portion will include ceramic and mixed - media sculptures of varying sizes and scale.

Inside his extraordinary library made specially for the Whitechapel Gallery lies a warmly lit cabinet of curiosities above which a vast mirror reflects a beam of light, transforming it into rungs of a ladder to infinity.

Later, as we tour the the incubator, I feel like I'm in a big cabinet of curiosities.

Jeremy Renner attends the opening night of Cirque Du Soleil's Kurios — Cabinet Of Curiosities held at Dodger Stadium on Wednesday (December 9) in Los Angeles.

As if that weren't enough, he also has a hefty book called Cabinet of Curiosities on the way (it hits shelves on October 29).

In particular, Rose and Ben are drawn to the Museum of Natural History, that great and antiquated cabinet of curiosities that is a paradise for the kind of kid that Selznick (and, by extension, Haynes) want you to believe exists: possessed of a childlike awe for the quaint and analog, perspicacious and thoughtful beyond their years.

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At times described as grottos, at others cabinets of curiosities, the physical black elements merge disparate parts into a single organism.

This entire exhibition is a mysterious collage of art, life and history, a vast sprawling array of fragments, a mental cabinet of curiosities that is both self - portrait and self - effacement.

His gallery installations are cabinets of curiosities featuring intricate wall paintings of beautiful women, indigenous statues and deities, collages crafted from vintage magazines penned and inked by the artist, human - like insect heads encased in vitrines, dolls that have been transformed into gang members, and images of pin - up girls with full tattoo sleeves.

Discoveries: Art, Science and Exploration This collection of wonders and works of art from Cambridge museums is a beguiling cabinet of curiosities set in one of London's richest and strangest buildings.

Photographic experiments from Man Ray to Thomas Ruff, a philosophical cabinet of curiosities, and Parliament Square's first female statue — all in your weekly dispatch

Purkinje Effect accordingly revisits Surrealism through surreal eyes, more like a baroque cabinet of curiosities than a standard museum show — and all the better for it.

Cabinets of curiosity originated in England and contained collections of small objects relating to natural history.

As museums in the age of the readymade increasingly resemble cabinets of curiosities (or sometimes of banalities), the separation of fine art from every other kind of object seems less and less tenable.

At over more than 21,000 sqft, the visitor might be forgiven for wanting an occasional pit stop, however by creating what is, in effect, an enormous cabinet of curiosities, the gallerists have ensured that there is always an intriguing sight just around the next corner.

It promises to be another intriguing meeting of art and medicine at this enlightened cabinet of curiosities.

Max Nelson's review calls the exhibition «a delightful cabinet of curiosities that riffs playfully... on Eureka's atmosphere and tone.»

The V&A, for instance, is an utterly beguiling museum because it is like a vast cabinet of curiosities where you can always be sure of finding some odd gallery of, say, Victorian barometers you never knew existed.

Using these parameters the faculty members created personal cabinets of curiosity, or wunderkammer, which will be presented over the course of the exhibition.

His far - flung adventures are reflected in his unexpected arrangements of personal objects, which make his living room feel like a highly curated cabinet of curiosities.

The mix created a playful display, a large cabinet of curiosities of sorts.

Also on view is a host of transportive ephemera, from photos and archival footage of the artist to his paint brushes and personal treasures, making this booth an enticing cabinet of curiosities.

Anton Ginzburg's post-it notes and other everyday artifacts made of painted bronze also alludes to an archeology of the future and belong to an ongoing cabinet of curiosities.

In her recent solo exhibition, A History of the World at London's Herrick Gallery, the room was transformed into an exquisite cabinet of curiosities full of treasures and trinkets, presented in both a historical and anthropological manner.

These objects, which are loaded with personal and historical meaning, contribute to the overall suggestion of the exhibition — that is it is a post-colonial cabinet of curiosity.