Excavations in eastern Morocco have yielded 13 perforated, pigment - stained shells that were probably strung together as some type
of body ornament about 82,000 years ago, according to a new report.
Not exact matches
Shells from a fourth Spanish cave, pigment - stained and pierced as if for use as
body ornaments, are even older, a team including several
of the same researchers reports in a second paper, in Science Advances.
When a male
of this tropical freshwater species (Corynopoma riisei) wants to mate, he dangles an «
ornament» — a flag - like appendage normally hidden close to his
body — in front
of his desired date.
In many countries where religion is a crucial part
of the society, people express their faith through their clothing,
ornaments or
body decoration.
But for around $ 25, the DeLuxe Equipment Group added brightwork on the grille and hood, a chrome driver's mirror, hood
ornament,
body - color (instead
of black) fenders, and an interior light.
The Toyota Etios Liva TRD Sportivo features a TRD designed sports package, which consists
of front bumper spoiler, side skirt, two - tone rear bumper, two - tone rear spoiler, 15 - inch gun metal smoked alloy wheels, side
body graphics, roof
ornament, new seat fabric with «TRD Sportivo» logo, silver shift knob and ofcourse limited edition badging.
Main features
of the freshened Spiano XF Model Based on the former X model, the new XF model has the following equipment: Exterior - Exclusive gunmetal gray - colored front grille and bumper - Front / side / rear extension
ornaments matched with the color
of the aluminum wheels - 13 - inch aluminum wheels with 155 / 65R13 tires - Square - shaped, power - retractable door mirrors that share the
body color Interior - MD / CD player with AM / FM tuner (2DIN / MDLP) with six speakers - Analog clock
Tinsel, ribbon, and
ornaments for the tree can pose the risk
of a foreign
body ingestion and / or a very upset stomach.
Inspired by
ornament, her latest
body of work explores social issues through the examination
of creative and artistic practices.
Her work evokes both the beauty and political implications
of decorative elements and
body ornaments such as hairstyles, fashion, textiles, and tattoos.
As mentioned above, The Blue Nude, representing the idea
of the disfigured
body, or the simplification
of the
body into an
ornamented surface, like in his painting Red Room, are just one
of the ways that the figure could be viewed to represent different symbols.
While Iglesias clearly does not indulge in Baroque spectacle and has taken the fountain tradition far beyond mere lavish
ornament, her uses
of water seem to me to resonate with the deeper implications
of Descartes» analogy, for the regular pulse
of Tres Aguas evokes the mind -
body symbiosis
of every living organism as well as the reciprocity that needs to exist between nature and society, individual and community.
New York, NY 2003 Triennial
of contemporary art and design, Museum
of Applied Art and Design, Frankfurt, Germany Corporal Identity,
Body Language, Museum
of Art and Design, New York, NY 2002 FIT, Schroeder Romero Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Artists to Artists, Ace Gallery, New York, NY Unexpected Selections, Martin Margulies collection, The Art Museum at F. I. U. Miami, FL 2001 Sculpture, Flip Side Gallery, Brooklyn, NY The Grammar
of Ornament, Memphis College
of Art, Memphis, TN 2000 White, Nikolai Fine Art, New York, NY The Dog and Pony Show, The Workspace, New York, NY Red Square, Smack Mellon Studios, Brooklyn, NY 1998 Something to Bump Into, Kagan Martos Gallery, New York, NY Elbowroom, Tredje Sparet, Stockholm, Sweden 2 person exhibition, Daniel Spreng Gallery, Bern, Switzerland 1997 The Pink Wink, New Image Art, West Hollywood, CA Material Girls, Gallery 128, New York, NY 1996 Gender Fucked, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA Crest Hardware Show, Brooklyn, NY Pieces
of Eight, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY Pattern and Relief, Smack Mellon Studios, Brooklyn, NY 1995 Revealing Desire, Cristinerose Gallery, New York, NY Wheel
of Fortune, Lombard - Freid Gallery, New York, NY 1994 Rough Cuts, the expanded artist's notebook, Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY.
2017 Desert X Biennial, Coachella Valley, CA 2016 SITElines.2016: New Perspectives on Art
of the Americas, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico NO COMMISSION, Bronx, NY Recent Acquisition, exhibited as part
of Beyond Limits, Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Recent Acquisition, exhibited as part
of Native Artists
of North America, Newark Museum
of Art, Newark, NJ Kindred Beasts: The Everson Biennial, Everson Museum
of Art, Syracuse, New York Convene, Nerman Museum
of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas March Madness, Fort Gansevoort, New York, New York WORD, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York New Geometries, Fleisher / Ollman, Philadelphia Perfect Day, Roberts and Tilton, California 2015 - 6 Affinity Atlas, The Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York Greater New York, MoMA PS1, New York, New York An Evening Redness in the West, IAIA Museum
of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA), Santa Fe, New Mexico Between History and
Body, The 8th Floor, Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation, New York, New York P3, Prospect New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana 2015 Piece by Piece, Building a Collection, Kemper Museum
of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri Gray Would Be The Color if I Had a Heart, MARC STRAUS, New York, NY Geometries
of Difference: New Approaches to
Ornament and Abstraction, Samuel Dorsky Museum
of Art, New Paltz, New York 2014 - 5 Beautiful Games: American Indian Sport and Art, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona 2014 Xigue - Xigue, MARC STRAUS, New York, New York Contemporary American Indian Art, The Nerman Museum Collection, Overland Park, Kansas 2013 Fiction / Non-Fiction, Esker Foundation, Calgary, Canada On Deck, MARC STRAUS, New York, New York Sakahan: International Indigenous Art, National Gallery Canada, Ottowa, Ontario Outside the Lines, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Houston, Texas Hotbox Forever, Steven Wolf, San Francisco, California Totem, Aysa Geisberg Gallery, New York, New York Group Show, Samson, Boston, Massachusetts 2012 - 4 Changing Hands 3, Museum
of Art and Design, New York, New York; Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York; McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario, Chazen Museum
of Art, University
of Wisconsin, Madison; Museum
of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, University
of Michigan Museum
of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan 2012 Shapeshifting, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts E-Vapor-8, 319 Scholes, Brooklyn, New York, organized by Francesca Gavin Peekskill Project V, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York 2011 Recent Acquisitions, Museum
of Fine Arts, Linde Wing for Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts Close Encounters, Plug - In Institute
of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Canada Recent Acquisitions, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado Anthony Greaney x Dan Graham x Samson, Cottage Home Gallery, Los Angeles, California An Exchange with Sol LeWitt, Cabinet Exhibitions and Mass MoCA, Brooklyn.
New York - based artist Firelei Báez imagines how
bodies (especially
of women and people
of color), landscapes and
ornaments bear traces
of colonial migration.
This conjures a whole new population
of unpresent
bodies: the likely overworked men and women whose job it is to carve out functional segments from garishly -
ornamented textiles.
In this
body of work, large plaster sculptures modeled after iconic works from the Greco - Roman era and quotidian objects such as garden
ornaments are each anchored by a blue «gazing ball»
of hand - blown glass.
Body: American Beauty iron handle on top, bakelite spoon handle rudder, wavy antenna Lighting: Top gooseneck, flicker flames underneath; rear flicker flame tail Base: Aluminum nose cone for an industrial water pump, with 4 pool balls; small hood
ornament rocket by a pot top knob moon; red pot top, top
of an old extinguisher.