To blob blog about the general mood of the times we live in…
Ken Price
Slenderella 2003
Synthetic polymer paint on fired clay
@MoMA Collection
July 24th, 2018
Tag: sculpture
A Heart of Stone
The Sisyphus Stones. They rise and tumble and rise again, just south of George Washington Bridge.
Work of one man – a modern-day Sisyphus. 
By Uliks Gryka
Fort Washington Park, Hudson River Greenway
July 22nd, 2018
A Heavenly Garden
Of Earthly Delights
Dolce & Gabbana
”Penelope” wedding ensemble, S/S 2013
Valentino
Evening dress, S/S 2014
Undercover, Jun Takahashi
Ensembles, S/S 2015, printed with iconography from Hieronymus Bosch’s triptych ”The Garden of Earthly Delights”
House of Dior
Raf Simons, Evening dress, A/W 2015-16
A more abstracted interpretation of Hieronymus Bosch’s painting ”The Garden of Earthly Delights”
Valentino
Evening Dress, A/W 2015-16
Jean Paul Gaultier
‘Lumiere’, Evening ensemble, S/S 2007
Steinunn Thorarinsdottir
Armors, 2016-2018
Rick Owens
Ensemble, A/W 2015-16.
With a pee(p) hole at the crotch, Owens’ playful, subversive ”habit” evokes the popular literary stereotype of the lecherous, debauched and scandalous medieval monk, satirized by Geoffrey Chaucer in ”The Canterbury Tales” (1387-1400).
The Cloisters, Fort Tryon Park
July 14th, 2018
Ascetic Opulence
From over the top opulence to extreme modesty and back. Fashion is inextricably connected to human nature. To understand the former, you may want to start deciphering the latter first.
Spinario (Boy Pulling a Thorn from his Foot)
Bronzse, partially gilt hair and silvered eyes
Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi)
probably modeled by 1496, cast. ca. 1501
Seated Paris
Bronze statuette, partially gilt and silvered
Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari-Bonacolsi)
Mantua, ca. 1500
Christian Lacroix
”Gold-Gotha” ensemble, A/W 1988/89
Gianni Versace
Evening top, A/W 1991-92
Gianni Versace
Evening top, A/W 1991-92
Gianni Versace
Jacket, A/W 1991-92
Jean Paul Gaultier
”Surprise de l’Icine” ensemble, A/W 1997-98
Dolce & Gabbana
”Idamante” ensemble, S/S 2016
Dolce & Gabbanna
”Angelica” ensemble, S/S 2016
From the Heavenly Bodies exhibiton, held @The Met in 2018
July 14th, 2018
Random walks || Manhattan
Random things you may expect to see while on a walk from Greenwich Village to the High Line.
Artworks:
A better view of Mariechen Danz’s ”The Dig of No Body (soil sample)”, 2018
An interrupted view of Sable Elyse Smith’s ”C.R.E.A.M.”, 2018
Art on the Highline
July 8th, 2018
In Pieces
Man & Art
Artwork (with a slightly more elaborate title), by Mariechen Danz:
The Dig of No Body (soil sample), 2018
Copper, plaster, bronze, ground glass, resin, soil, cement, shells, plastic trash, clay, marble, horn, steel, sand, semi-precious stones, wood, aluminium, Coal, Steel base
Art on the Highline
July 8th, 2018
Nick Cave || The Let Go
Nick Cave’s wearable mops soundsuits invaded the entire ground floor of the Park Avenue Armory. When they started dancing, they were mesmerizing.
Nick Cave’s Soundsuits are wearable sculptures that combine performance and textile art. They are named for the noise Cave’s first suit made, when he wore it and started dancing around. They are often made from found objects and cover the wearer completely, so as to mask their identity. The inspiration for the first Soundsuit, created in 1992, was the brutal beating of Rodney King. Since then, Cave has created over 500 Soundsuits.
Park Avenue Armory – The Let Go
June 24th, 2018
Chihuly Garden & Glass
Enter the intricate, fragile world of Dale Chihuly – or, to be fair, the world of a small army of designers, glassblowers, sculptors and assemblers, working under the ”Chihuly” umbrella. Let’s take a moment to appreciate and recognize their work, even if we will never see their names in the credits.
It wasn’t the first time I saw a large ”Chihuli” exhibition, such as this. In October 2017, I had the chance to enjoy this immense work of glass making, in a truly magical setting: the New York Botanical Garden, in the Bronx. The gardens remained open in the evening and the sculptures, scattered all over the gardens and conservatory, were illuminated. The result was spectacular. There are several posts about that exhibition, the most popular being ”Into the Night”.
Seattle, WA
June 15th, 2018
The Narrow Face
Echo, 2011
Jaume Plensa
Jaume Plensa’s sculpture Echo is named for the mountain nymph of Greek mythology who offended the goddess Hera – she kept her engaged in conversation and prevented her from spying on one of Zeus’ amours. To punish Echo, Hera deprived the nymph of speech, except for the ability to repeat the last words spoken by another. The sculptor created this monumental head of Echo with her eyes closed, seemingly listening or in a state of meditation.
Another work by Jaume Plensa: Crown Fountain, in Chicago
2801 Alaskan Way, Seattle, WA
June 15th, 2018
The way we hammer art
without a nail
Jonathan Borofsky’s Hammering Man was installed right in front of the Seattle Art Museum, in 1991. Hammering Man is a series of monumental sculptures situated in different cities and was created in honour of the working class women and men of the world.
Daedalus/Upliftment, 2016
Acrylic, gold leaf, spray paint on canvas
Fahamu Pecou
Double Elvis, 1963/1976
Silkscreen in, synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Andy Warhol
Caterpillar Suit 1, 2007
Anodized brass wire
Walter Oltmann
Untitled, 1982
Acrylic, spray paint and oil stick on canvas
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Warhol/Basquiat, NYC August 1986
wowe (Wolfgang Wesener)
Birdcage
Wood, metal, ivoyr
Late Qing dynasty (1644-1991) or Republican period (1850-1920)
Leda and the Swan, probably after 1915 and before 1923
Oil on canvas
John Covert
Morning, probably 1933
Oil on burlap
Morris Graves
Morning is a deeply affecting image of retreat, of the pain of facing the light, of the fear of facing the day.
Catfish clan figure, 19th-20th century
Wood, polycrhome
Melanesian, Papua New Guinea, Guam River Region, probably Breri or Igana people
June 15th, 2018
The Humble Fabulist 