All Things Art & Photography
The 2013 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion annual commission is designed by award-winning Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto. He is the youngest architect to accept this invitation to design one of the most famous temporary structure commissions in the world
Sou Fujimoto: The Serpentine Pavilion
Untrained and self-taught Bill Traylor is featured in two exhibitions at the American Folk Art Museum and a must see if you are in New York this summer. See how an uneducated visionary born into slavery influenced the art world in a very big way.
Traylor in Motion:
Wonders from New York Collections
Bill Traylor:
Drawings from the Collections of the High Museum of Art and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
June 11–September 22, 2013
Working with ambient light his entire career James Turrell is probably our greatest living artist. He has built versions of these Sky Spaces all over the world (mostly to fund his colossal life’s work, The Roden Crater Project). Most are in private hands and built by multimillionaires but each is unique. Here is a rare glimpse of what one looks like inside.
This Twilight Epiphany Sky Space was just built at Rice University and one of the few public ones you can visit. You can see how it incorporates much of what Turrell has learned making the Roden Crater Project. The video is a marketing piece and has way toooooo much talking b ut there are excellent moments (when everyone shuts up) and you can see the work for what it is – pure genius.
Photo via Architectural Record
Standing adjacent to the Shepherd School of Music on the Rice University campus, James Turrell’s “Twilight Epiphany” Skyspace has landed. The pyramidal structure accommodates 120 people on two levels and is acoustically engineered for musical performances and a laboratory for music school students. Constructed of grass, concrete, stone and composite steel, the structure is equipped with an LED light performance that projects onto the ceiling and through the 72-foot square knife-edge roof, which is open to the sky. Turrell’s composition of light complements the natural light present at sunrise and sunset, and transforms the Skyspace into a locale for experiencing beauty and reflective interaction with the surrounding campus and the natural world…
via Rice University web site
Most of his Sky Spaces are in private hands and built by multimillionaires but each is unique. Here is a rare glimpse of what one looks like inside.
The tour starts at the 2 min mark.
Since 1969 Schellmann Art has been producing and
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photographs, videos, objects and installation works.via the website
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Not a photographer in the classical sense yet Susan Derges is known for her images of water that encompass the reflected night sky. She produces mystical and moving photograms by placing photographic paper in rivers and shorelines at night. Her intensely poetic images are some of the most beautiful nature pictures ever made – and all without a camera. You can find her work in book Elemental. Here is her Lecture at ICP.
