“Otherworldly: Optical Delusions and Small Realities” at MAD is an entertaining exhibition. It investigates how technology changes viewers’ perception of images. The focus is international artists who make miniature worlds through the use of models akin to the dioramas people of my generation grew up making for their book reports. But these are much more [...]
This year’s pavilion (they are designed by someone new each year) is designed by architect Jean Nouvel. The bright red structure makes quite a statement in its natural environs.
Swedish artist Klara Liden was trained as an architect but it is her video and installation work that is on view at the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington [...]
I headed down to Louisville, Kentucky for the first time to check out the hotel/museum 21c owned by Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson. The red penguin, seen above in pajamas for their annual pajama party fundraiser, is the logo and mascot of the establishment. The 90-room property, which occupies five 19th-century brick buildings on West [...]
The exhibition The New Decor at Hayward Gallery includes work by 36 artists from 22 different countries and features works and installations that “take design as a point of departure. By transforming or subverting the appearance and display of everyday furniture, these artworks demolish the accepted etiquette of interior design and the idealized image of [...]
Also on view at the Hayward is The Edges of the World, a massive installation by Ernesto Neto. Unlike his large work created for the Park Avenue Armory in 2009, this work is made of many different materials and is broken into specific pieces in separate rooms. Outside is a lareg steel sculpture made from discs that [...]
Eero Saarinen had architecture in his blood. He collaborated with his father, a famous architect in his own right, in the 1930s and 1940s and that helped Eero develop a name for himself. Not only was he one of the most celebrated architects of his time but he had his share of controversy as well. Rising to [...]