Not exact matches
Try reading J. C. McKeown's «A
Cabinet of Roman
Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts
from the World's Greatest Empire.»
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
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.
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.
From a distance, it looks like a
cabinet of curiosities: an archive
of collected geological formations.
Hidden inside this library is a
cabinet of curiosities filled with items
from old scientific measuring devices to books by authors such as the philosopher Descartes and biologist Alfred Russel Wallace.
It appears to be simultaneously a working studio, an archive, and a theatrical setting, but might best be understood as a Wunderkammer — literally a «wonder room,» though the term is often translated
from the German as a «
cabinet of curiosities» — a cumulative and layered microcosm.
These will include the Visconti Maquettothèque [model set designs collection]
of the Monte - Carlo Opera, the Bosio brothers» sculptures and etchings, Eugène Frey's fabulous luminous decors, the Marquis du Périer de Mouriez's strange collection
of transparent paintings, plus the religious boxes
from the de Galéa Collection and many other artificialia that evoke the
cabinets of curiosities of the 17th and 18th centuries, the ancestors
of European museums.
This year's show explores the historic links between art and science with a
cabinet -
of -
curiosities - style presentation
of works
from Cambridge University's museums: expect a dodo skeleton and cases
of Lepidoptera sharing space with paintings and prints.
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.
In the style
of cabinets of curiosity and natural history museum dioramas, audiences are presented with grotesque humanoid creatures
from a confluence
of pre-enlightenment fantasies and future environmental collapse anxiety.
Translated
from German into «
Cabinet of curiosities,» «KUNSTKAMMER» is a group exhibit established at ApostropheNYC, and brings together 10 + interdisciplinary, up and coming, visual and performance artists.
«Urban Outfitter,» Artnews, January, pp. 52, 54 A Contemporary
Cabinet of Curiosities — Selections
from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection, California College
of Arts and Crafts, Oakland Reena Jana.
We will encounter the Visconti «maquétothèque»
of the Monte - Carlo Opera, Eugène Frey's fabulous luminous decors, the Marquis du Périer de Mouriez's strange collection
of transparent paintings, plus the religious boxes
from the Galéa Collection made by the Provencal Carmelites and a thousand other
from the reserve collection that evoke the
cabinets of curiosities of the 17th and 18th centuries, the ancestors
of European museums.
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.
They set the objects within an environment designed by themselves, woven together with imagery
from the Institute archive, to create a sort
of family tableau or
cabinet of curiosity, in which art works, plinths and walls play an equal role.
2001 A Contemporary
Cabinet of Curiosities, Selections
from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection, California College
of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, US I Love (benefit exhibition), Anton Kern Gallery, New York, US Translated Acts, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE, Queens Museum
of Art, New York, US
Plus, choose
from a wide selection
of fabulous and frightful collectibles to create your very own
cabinet of curiosities.
Ralph Rugoff, A Contemporary
Cabinet of Curiosities: Selections
from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection, California College
of the Arts, San Francisco and Oakland, US
From the fantastic to the frightful, don't miss this rare glimpse into the world
of renowned filmmaker Guillermo del Toro and his
cabinet of curiosities.
Beginning with Chapter 1, titled Extraordinary Journeys, Gyger invites viewers to interact with a
cabinet of curiosities containing original manuscripts and drawings
from Jules Verne, as well as James Gurney's Dinotopia series.
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.
From the 19th century
cabinet of curiosities, to the vastness
of space.
The New Yorker — Audio Slide Show: Peter Schjeldahl on «Ghosts in the Machine» — Peter Schjeldahl —
From monsters in the lake to a
cabinet of curiosities.
A doll's house
from the children's IKEA range has been sprayed and mounted on the wall like an imaginative
cabinet of curiosities.
There are 10 surprising pictures more that you can see below including Modern
Curiosity Cabinet With Transparent Screen Shown The Beauty image, Vintage Style Stainless Steel
Cabinet Of Curiosities Glass Door image, Gorgeous Interior Decoration In Air Plant
Cabinet Of Curiosities image, White Metal
Cabinet Of Curiosities For Minimalist Interior image, Fascinating Interior Storage Furniture
Curiosity Cabinet With Faux Coral image, Fancy
Cabinet Of Curiosities Seashells Made
From Reclaimed Wood image, and other.
Instead
of picking out wallpaper swatches, designer Janet Gridley stole pages
from the the iconic book
Cabinet of Natural
Curiosities to cover a Minnesota colonial's powder room.