Sentences with phrase «curiosity cabinets of»
As written in Ampersand Gallery's press release about their last exhibition with Hall, «[his] finely detailed assemblages bring to mind the dioramas & curiosity cabinets of natural history museums, yet on a deeper level they allude to the ritualistic strangeness of reliquaries, thereby serving as an intersection where notions of religion, science, folklore & quackery collide with the artist's imagination.»
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Try reading J. C. McKeown's «A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the World's Greatest Empire.»
Later, as we tour the the incubator, I feel like I'm in a big cabinet of curiosities.
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And we're standing before our Cabinet of Curiosities about the history of the universe.
I recently compiled this miscellany into the book Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities.
The maze also includes a natural science — themed «cabinet of curiosities,» such as the state mineral, galena.
We used to hunt design objects, vintage one; we like the idea of creating a cabinet of curiosities.
Opposite the fireplace is the cabinet of curiosities decked out for the fall.
Ready for a change it was transformed into a cabinet of curiosities.
I like the interesting pieces in the cabinet of curiosities.
Your cabinet of curiosities is gorgeous.
Display homemade sweets along with classic Halloween candy, wrapped in layers of tulle, under cloches and on cake stands for a decrepit - cabinet - of - curiosities effect.
But we're now going to walk into my favourite gallery in the entire exhibition, which is The Cabinet of Curiosities and it's the most overwhelmingly, breathtakingly beautiful space.
I simply adore this makeover, first a great pop of red, the wonderful decoupage images, then the door graphics, it looks just like an old curiosity cabinet done right.
READINGS The View from the Train: Cities and Other Landscapes by Patrick Keiller, reviewed by Jonathan Romney; Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses: Roger Corman: King of the B Movie by Chris Nashawaty, reviewed by Sarah Mankoff; Musts, Maybes, and Nevers: A Book About the Movies by David V. Picker, reviewed by James Hughes; Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessions by Guillermo del Toro, with contributions by Marc Scott Zicree, reviewed by Marc Walkow
The film, which will be released by Amazon Studios and Roadside Attractions, is a blend of the graceful and the garish that reaches for magic but ends up more of a cabinet of curiosities than one of wonder.
Next Goran Visnjic Slideshow: Cirque du Soleil's KURIOS - CABINET OF CURIOSITIES - Los Angeles California United States - Wednesday 9th December 2015
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).
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She has edited the Best American Fantasy series as well as numerous other anthologies including The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities, Steampunk, and Fast Ships, Black Sails.
Other over-the-top resort amenities include an infinity pool that faces the Indian Ocean, two helicopters that guests can take to visit nearby islands, and a «Cabinet of Curiosities,» in other words a mini-museum featuring regional artifacts like dinosaur bones and an elephant bird egg.
Tres charmant... Each story reads like a veritable treasure in the Cabinets of Curiosity King deftly describes... an antidote to the streak of snark in so much modern travel writing.
How much is it to play one of these, because that sounds like a ripoff... Also, where did you find this cabinet, just out of curiosity?
2007 Bits and Pieces: The Collage Impulse, Lehman College Gallery, Bronx, NY Cabinet of Curiosities, The Journal Gallery, New York, NY What Glue Do You Use?
The Artist's Museum locates these diverse works within a cultural moment and artistic impulse bookended by the historical cabinet of curiosities and 20th century image libraries, and our current era of the hyperlink and circulation of digital images.
Hirst's contemporary cabinet of curiosities is on display at the legendary Parisian house of taxidermy, Deyrolle.
Thomas Kiesewetter recycles scrap metal and old plate for his sculpture Blue Violet (2008) and John Bock combines various materials — including wrappings and small everyday objects, such as cotton buds or cocktail skewers — into miniature assemblages reminiscent of cabinets of curiosities.
Pairing the architect and designer famous for dressing in metal - inflected black leather and for catering to brands of the level of Chanel, Dior and Bulgari, with a museum founded on a collection of Renaissance art seemed an oxymoron until heading up the ramp into a world that functioned as a Renaissance cabinet of curiosities.
Fensterstock transforms the Atrium Gallery into a cabinet of curiosity that expands her interest in natural history and personal collections, principally Holophusicon, an eighteenth - century natural history and ethnographical museum in London, and American artist Robert Smithson's Mirror with Crushed Shells, created during an exploration on the beaches of Sanibel, Florida.
Five installations will be displayed at Whitechapel Gallery: a scholar's study invites us to unravel intricate drawings and models; the Bureau for the Centre of the Study for Surrealism and its Legacy displays the strange magic of obsolete things; the muddy banks of the Thames have also yielded their treasures for poetic display in a gigantic cabinet; while a Dickensian Curiosity Shop tempts us with the bizarre aura of American bric - a-brac.
Part cabinet of curiosities, part ready - made surreal museum; Glassford's assemblage offers a unique speculative, formal and... Continued
Culture Type - For Your Summer Agenda, 49 U.S. Exhibitions Featuring Works by Black Artists The International Review of African American Art Plus - A Look Inside: Eliza's Cabinet of Curiosities Art City Asks: Fo Wilson Wisconsin Gazette - A cabinet of curiosities in a cabin Art City: Using objects to explore, reimagine a slave's world Arts Without Borders: A «peculiar curiosity» lurks in the Lynden Scupture Garden's bacCabinet of Curiosities Art City Asks: Fo Wilson Wisconsin Gazette - A cabinet of curiosities in a cabin Art City: Using objects to explore, reimagine a slave's world Arts Without Borders: A «peculiar curiosity» lurks in the Lynden Scupture Garden'sCuriosities Art City Asks: Fo Wilson Wisconsin Gazette - A cabinet of curiosities in a cabin Art City: Using objects to explore, reimagine a slave's world Arts Without Borders: A «peculiar curiosity» lurks in the Lynden Scupture Garden's baccabinet of curiosities in a cabin Art City: Using objects to explore, reimagine a slave's world Arts Without Borders: A «peculiar curiosity» lurks in the Lynden Scupture Garden'scuriosities in a cabin Art City: Using objects to explore, reimagine a slave's world Arts Without Borders: A «peculiar curiosity» lurks in the Lynden Scupture Garden's back woods
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.
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 exhibition extends the tradition of the wunderkammern, cabinets of curiosities which arose in sixteenth - century Europe as repositories for wondrous and exotic objects drawn from natural, manmade, and artificial worlds.
Programs include: Affinity Atlas, an exhibition combining an international roster of contemporary works and an immersive «cabinet of curiosities,» with rotating displays by Skidmore faculty that forge unexpected connections between the works on view; a collaboration and residency with Mark Allen and Machine Project to create new installations, performances, and events at the Tang; and a reexamination of the work of Alma Thomas.
Geraldine Javier's show Museum of Many Things at the Valentine Willie Fine Art Gallery presents an amalgamation of vintage mementos, framed animal skeletons, stuffed birds and elaborate needlework in a contemporary take of a Victorian - styled cabinet of curiosities.
Inspired by Israel's prototype museum, a wunderkammer (cabinet of curiosities) founded by Boris Schatz in 1912 to educate students at the Bezalel School of Art.
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.
One of his most famous works, the Tate Thames Dig, was executed in three phases: an archeological dig, the cleaning and classifying of objects, and the display, which consisted of «Cabinets of Curiosities» consisting of items like plastic toys, oyster shells, and clay pipes, challenging institutional and museological discourses.
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.
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 formal arrangement and display of the beautifully coloured, handmade pills recalls the cabinets of curiosity popularised by the Victorians.
The five installations documented here incorporate diverse subjects: a scholar's study invites us to unravel intricate drawings and models; a curator's office displays the strange magic of obsolete things; the muddy banks of the Thames have also yielded their treasures for poetic display in a gigantic cabinet; while a Dickensian Curiosity Shop tempts us with the bizarre aura of American bric - a-brac.
From a distance, it looks like a cabinet of curiosities: an archive of collected geological formations.
P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center presents an exhibition based on the idea of a Wunderkammer, a cabinet of curiosities, with more than 100 works by 35 artists.
Dion explores rainforests and organises digs to gather arrays of objects that he displays in cases or rooms that pay homage to the cabinets of curiosity created by Renaissance princes.