Category: Art Installations

  • Leandro Erlich's Installation Lets us All be Spiderman

    how to get ex girlfriend back Look at those crazy kids playing at being Spiderman! Or, so it appears… Leandro Erlich's brilliant installation, Dalston House, allows people to interact with a building's facade placed horizontally on the ground. Argentine artist Leandro Erlich was commissioned by the Barbican in London to install a version of his wildly popular optical illusion…

  • So Much Talent at NYC Young Artist Show 2013!

      The girls were so excited, and okay…so was I, that their artwork was chosen for the NYC Young Artist Show this year! It was so great to see such young kids already in there doing it. All sorts of cool art materials were set out so the kids could work on this amazing cubby…

  • “Toy Stories” by Gabriele Galimberti

      I just love what these personal collections of these kids say about the lives of the owners by Italian photographer Gabriele Galimberti. He spent 18 months travelling the world, documenting children with their most prized possessions – toys. To see the full story go to his site.      

  • Patrick Dougherty & Dr. Seuss Sculpture Garden at Springfield Mass. Museum

      I am a huge fan of Patrick Dougherty’s work as you might have known from this previous post. So, I imagine my joy when I realized he has an exhibition called Room by Room at the Springfield Massachusetts Museum and that we could swing by on our way back from Cape Cod (see our…

  • Buddy Bears in Paris

      Has your city been visited by the Buddy Bears yet? Here they are proudly lined up in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Oona wants to make one like this, so she tells me… Everything started in Berlin in June 2001, when the  “Buddy Bear Berlin Show“ was launched. The raised arms of…

  • Papier de Soie Creations by Maryse Dugois

      A friend just sent me this beautiful site of Maryse Dugois and her ephemeral and whimsical “papier de soie” (silk paper) sculptures and installations and I just had to post them!   I love what she did with these windows at Guerlain in Paris! Aquatic Universe installation    

  • The Summer Pavilion – Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens

      Every year I excitedly await the opening of the Summer Pavilion, a programme involving a sequence of world-class architects transforming the space outside the Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens into a temporary Pavilion. This year’s efforts are by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei. It is the first time the Pavilion has been partly…

  • Ernesto Neto: Slow Iis Good Exhibition, Chelsea

      If you are in New York and in the Chelsea art gallery area, this new installation by Ernesto Neto of his new, climbable sculptures, is really worth checking out. Unfortunately, I couldn’t let the girls in there to climb around, despite pleading from Oona, as this one is only for the older kids – ages…

  • Damien Hirst Retrospective at Tate Modern

    Hirst’s most famous piece: The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living   Mother and Child Divided  Photo credit: Tate Modern website   Whether you are a fan of his work or it leaves you cold, there is no denying Damien Hirst’s current profile and influence in the contemporary art world; and…

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