Sentences with phrase «from curiosity cabinets»

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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.»

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.

By taking inspiration from advanced contemporary museums and research laboratories, and the original empirical «wunderkammern» (curiosity cabinets), Dion presents his full - bodied projects in an eclectic and engaging manner.

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.

Straddling between fact and fiction, Dayrit's works explore origins and histories, and their representations in visual apparatuses, from the map, curiosity cabinet, and on to the museum.

«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.

In Stuffed Curiosity Cabinet (2017), poignantly modified everyday objects are displayed as if they are relics from a dormant contemporary society.

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.

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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.