Both shows make allusion to the voguish notion
of the cabinet of curiosities or Wunderkammer, but each offers a different take on this 17th - century craze.
Installation view
of Cabinet of Curiosities gallery 2015, Alexander McQueen Savage Beauty at the V&A.
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.
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.
These five miniature paintings were inspired by the tradition
of cabinets of curiosity and the «Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death» by Frances Glessner Lee.
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.
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.»
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
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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.
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.
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.»
Part
cabinet of curiosities, part ready - made surreal museum; Glassford's assemblage offers a unique speculative, formal and... Continued
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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.