Category: Art Installations

  • Violise Lunn Paper Art

      What interesting and beautiful paper works by Danish designer Violise Lunn. She creates wearable and unwearable items. Allowing herself to divide her time between these two artforms, the usable and the useless, Violise Lunn lets them feed each other with inspiration. Their origin is the same – to permit dreaminess and the search for…

  • “This Is Not A House” At The Wapping Project

        Today we took to the Wapping Project housed in the Wapping Hydraulic Power Station to see This is not a House by Edgar Martins (A series of photographs exploring the collapse of the US housing market and the sub-prime mortgage crisis.) and enjoy lunch in the sunlit industrial space. Wapping is part of London’s Docklands but feels quite…

  • The Obliteration Room at The Tate Modern

      (We already blogged about the original Obliteration Room here and now it’s at the Tate!) The Obliteration Room has arrived at the Tate Modern and our daughter judged it to be the highlight of the Yayoi Kusama exhibition. Of particular interest was covering daddy in spots and dots. We bumped into friends whose one…

  • Paper Installation By Peter Gentenaar

      Here is a beautiful thing to behold on a Sunday. I am enthralled by these ethereal works by Peter Gentenaar and can’t stop gazing at them. More than 100 of Peter Gentenaar’s paper sculptures were hung inside the Abbey church of Saint-Riquier in France. Peter’s sculptures are created by allowing pulp to dry and shrink in unison whilst attached to…

  • “The Obliteration Room” by Yayoi Kusuma (& Kids)

      You know we are complete goners for installations made by kids, (here’s another one), so this is right up our alley! This is the breathtaking result when thousands of kids get to stick thousands of stickers all over an empty bright white room: Obliteration! What a great idea this amazing installation is, for the Queensland Gallery of…

  • Chairs, Chairs, Chairs

    What a marvelous sight! Doris Salcedo used 1600 chairs in the making of this tremendous work of urban art. She puts her work right in public view, displacing a space people normally think of as empty to send her political, economic and historical messages. By the writing on that sign, this happening took place somewhere in…

  • Peter & The Wolf Narrated by Isaac Mizrahi Balloon Sculptures by Jason Hackenwerth

    I just became aware of this unusual and unbelievably imaginative production of Peter and The Wolf which is part of the Guggenheim Works & Process series. I’m really hoping to make it over there as it ends this week. The legendary Isaac Mizrahi will narrate Sergei Prokofiev’s charming children’s classic, as George Manahan conducts the Juilliard…

  • Art Installation in Greenwich Village

    Here is the next in our series of Public Art Projects with neighborhood kids, and like the first, (see here) using balloons! This is is entitled, “Belle of the Ball” or “All Dressed Up And Nowhere To Go.”  I figured that I cover fashion for kids – why not for our beautiful tree here? The…

  • Water Balloon Installation In Public Park

    This is the first in a series of art projects I am undertaking with children in public places. This water balloon installation is entitled “Jellybean Pool”. The kids and I worked hard on filling over 300 balloons, or as Oona says, “bloons”. I was quite amazed at their diligence because folks, this piece of art…

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