immersive flower installations

 

Okay so while I was processing all the admin that I have to do, I got distracted and stumbled upon the fantastic flower installations by Rebecca Louise Law.

They are so amazing and beautiful.  They transform the space. They take nature inside and the relationship between indoors and outdoors is great.
It is a conceptually beautiful and intricate work and I am now obsessed with it.

Check out more below.

further readings:

https://mymodernmet.com/flower-installation-art-rebecca-louise-law/

http://www.rebeccalouiselaw.com/

https://mymodernmet.com/rebecca-louise-law-hanging-flowers/

happy international museum day

happy international museum day!

to celebrate i am sharing photographs from the tumblr people sleeping in museums. 

who hasn’t had a sneaky nap in a museum? they are the perfect place to rest your weary eyes and legs.

anyway happy international museum day and enjoy!

 

further readings:

https://peoplesleepinginmuseums.tumblr.com/

people matching artworks

 

This is just so genius.

I adore these photographs.  They are from the French photographer, Stefan Draschan.

These photographs are beautiful, funny and unique. They make a beautiful harmony between the work of art itself and the visitor. Take a look yourself. Enjoy scrolling and finding the matches.

further reading:

https://www.boredpanda.com/people-matching-artworks-stefan-draschan/

https://stefandraschan.com/

taking art out of the museum.

The Outings Project by artist and filmmaker Julien de Casabianca is about freeing anonymous museum figures from their museum confines. He reproduces the work on the public street. People may not know the painting, or the artist but by placing these figures outside the museum somehow more people can view the works.

Originally, Casabianca let one Ingres’ unknown figures free from the Lourve. Since then, people in at least 18 cities have posted similar anonymous characters from master artworks.  Casabianca says the global participation was completely unplanned and unexpected but he’s embraced the idea wholeheartedly.

Discussing the project, Casabianca states “we don’t want to tell you something that you don’t know, and we don’t want people to feel ignorant. You have just to feel that [the artwork] is ancient and shifted, you have just to be touched by the emotion, by the esthetic, by the art.”

Pretty awesome idea hey.

You can check it out here:

http://www.outings-project.org/

further readings:

https://hyperallergic.com/195873/liberating-the-anonymous-figures-in-old-master-paintings/

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/04/outings-project/

http://thisisnthappiness.com/post/117210856659/outings-project

Artists in their studios

Artists in their studios. Enjoy it all.I am feeling inspired.

Edvard Munch

Georgia O’Keefe

Roy Liechtenstein 

Alexander Kalder

Marc Chagall

Auguste Rodin 

Paul Cezanne

Keith Haring

Francis Bacon

Frida Kahlo

Jackson Pollock

Salvador Dali

further readings:

http://www.boredpanda.com/famous-artists-and-their-muses-in-their-studios/#post2

the gluten free museum

So seeing as it is Passover at the moment and if you are celebrating it, you sadly have to ‘enjoy’ a wheat free week.  To make it easier somehow, I have found this awesome tumblr called gluten free museum (http://glutenimage.tumblr.com/).  It isn’t only for the people celebrating Passover but for anyone who is gluten intolerant and is getting so frustrated with all the artworks that have gluten in it. This tumblr magically removes the said gluten and tada you can enjoy the art without the gluten. Here are some of my fave images:

I should put the names of the artworks but to write this post so far has taken me over an hour (the joys of using public computers).  Hope the gluten free museum puts a smile on your dial.

further readings:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/emaoconnor/let-them-eat-kale-chips

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/gluten_free_museum_website_removes_all_gluten_products_from_works_of_art

museum secrets

If you don’t know by now. It is #museum week.

So for museum week, institutions are sharing their secrets (or just lesser known facts) This is being shared through through the hashtag #secretsmw. The social media collaboration is one of seven themed days for Museum Week, which is organised by Twitter and the French Ministry of Culture and Communication.

Now, we could go delve further into this particularly looking at how twenty-first century technology is changing these institutions but rather lets just look at what some of these tantalising tidbits are.

The Brooklyn Museum shared this archived image on Tumblr and Instagram showing their casts of European sculptures.

The rest are from Twitter and are the following:

The last few #secretsmw I want to share are actually vines and they are the following:

The Royal Institution’s A SECRET DOOR

And the Walker Art Centre’s travelling exhibition crates

How cool is museum week? What do you think of these secrets? Have you found any other museum secrets? Do you have any to share?

further readings:

https://twitter.com/hashtag/secretsmw

http://hyperallergic.com/192898/for-museumweek-institutions-share-their-secrets-online/

https://blog.twitter.com/2015/museumweek-2015-kicks-off-around-the-world

http://www.theguardian.com/science/grrlscientist/2015/mar/23/its-museum-week-on-twitter

http://museumweek2015.org/en/

Olga Viso @ the Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia

Here is another lecture talk from the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
It is from executive Director at the Walker Art Centre in Minneapolis, Olga Viso. She discusses new art, community engagement and the art museum today as a catalyst for artists and audiences.

further readings:

http://www.walkerart.org/

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/arts/artsspecial/for-the-walker-art-center-a-shop-that-peddles-evanescence.html?_r=0

https://www.minnpost.com/arts-culture/2015/03/talking-art-and-social-media-walker-art-center

Bauhaus Lab 2015

Who wouldn’t want to have the opportunity to study and learn in the infamous Bauhaus (in Dessau)?

Well now is your opportunity!

The annual Interdisciplinary Lab at Bauhaus Dessau Foundation is taking place 4 May – 9 August, 2015.

Bauhaus Dessau is calling for expressions of interest from young professionals working in architecture, design, fine arts and curatorial practice.

The 2015 lab is titled ‘Cracks in the Curtain Wall – Beyond an Architecture of Cleanliness’ and will focus on the new material culture of modern architecture from a little noticed perspective – cleaning. The program will end with an exhibition at the Housekeeping Fair 2015.

Participation in the lab is free. To join, applicants are required to complete statement of interest. An international jury will choose eight participants by 4 April.

More information below:

http://www.bauhaus-dessau.de/bauhaus-lab-20151.html

the devil is in the details (part three)

Part Tre of the devil is in the details series.

These lovely details come from the artworks in the Lourve in Paree!

further readings:

http://www.louvre.fr/en