Sometimes when you're traveling it's not the monuments or the big bull on Wall Street that makes you stop and look twice. Instead, it could be guerilla knitters that have knitted and chained a bicycle to a pole. Very unexpected and very peculiar!
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Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Wanderlust Wednesday - A knitted bicycle in New York City
Sometimes when you're traveling it's not the monuments or the big bull on Wall Street that makes you stop and look twice. Instead, it could be guerilla knitters that have knitted and chained a bicycle to a pole. Very unexpected and very peculiar!
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Vintage Barbie Exhibition
Every girl remembers their first Barbie doll. Mine had lovely blonde tresses and a swimsuit that changed colour when it got wet. The early nineties Barbie doll had very important accessories, like a hairbrush and mirror.
Last week I attended the opening of the Vintage Barbie exhibition at the Art Gallery of WA in celebration of Barbie's 50th birthday. She looks pretty good for 50!
The vintage collection is owned by Neil Taylor and spans from 1952 to 1973. The immaculate dolls feature Barbie as a doctor, glammed up in ballgowns or casually dressed to go shopping. Her best accessory though is of course Ken! Keep an eye out for army Ken in his camouflage gear, he's a charmer!
Neil is even giving free appraisals of Barbies at selected times. If only I knew where my Barbie doll now lives, and if her swimsuit still changes colour!
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Liquid Desires at NGV
"One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams." - Salvador Dali
I have a penchant for Surrealist art and particularly the way in which the definite line between dreams and reality is blurred.
I remember studying Surrealism at school and deconstructing Salvador Dali's melting clocks. In 2006 I visited the Tate Modern in London and viewed Surrealism: Desire Unbound. My favourite exhibit was the Lobster Telephone - it's bizarre, it has sexual connotations and...it's a lobster!
The Lobster Telephone is one of the surrealist artworks in Liquid Desires at NGV.
Liquid Desires looks at Dali's body of work spanning his entire career. I was amazed by his artistic diversity - film, television, advertising, fashion design, theory, photography, publishing and his exploration of new ideas and mediums.
I would've loved to have seen more "clocks" in Liquid Desires, but perhaps I'll come across them in another Dali exhibition somewhere else in the world. Adding to the list of things that I must do in my lifetime - see The Royal Heart at the Salvador Dali Museum in Figueras, Spain.
I have a penchant for Surrealist art and particularly the way in which the definite line between dreams and reality is blurred.
I remember studying Surrealism at school and deconstructing Salvador Dali's melting clocks. In 2006 I visited the Tate Modern in London and viewed Surrealism: Desire Unbound. My favourite exhibit was the Lobster Telephone - it's bizarre, it has sexual connotations and...it's a lobster!
The Lobster Telephone is one of the surrealist artworks in Liquid Desires at NGV.
Liquid Desires looks at Dali's body of work spanning his entire career. I was amazed by his artistic diversity - film, television, advertising, fashion design, theory, photography, publishing and his exploration of new ideas and mediums.
I would've loved to have seen more "clocks" in Liquid Desires, but perhaps I'll come across them in another Dali exhibition somewhere else in the world. Adding to the list of things that I must do in my lifetime - see The Royal Heart at the Salvador Dali Museum in Figueras, Spain.
Friday, March 13, 2009
If I could bottle up the seabreeze...
Sculptures by the Sea is a summer must-see in Cottesloe. I love watching how people interact with all the different artworks, be it lying in the shade of a ship container or crawling through a mesh igloo. This exhibition is hosted on a beach "gallery", or maybe it should be known as the gallery of the people?
Kassie and I had fun deconstructing the artwork by saying statements like; "I really like how the artist made use of the existing space to make a statement of man's destruction of the natural environment." and "Does the pencil's line have a infinite beginning and ending? How would you write your memoirs with it?"
Sculptures by the Sea will continue to delight children, adults and art lovers alike until March 24th.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
No such thing as too much Picasso
The National Art Center, Tokyo is the newest addition to Tokyo's art scene, so much so that some guidebooks fail to give it a mention. The postmodern building opened in Jan '07. Its futuristic-looking with glass paneled walls snaking around the building in a continuous wave. The UFO like main entrance welcomes you inside.
PICASSO: From the Collection of the Musee National Picasso, Paris is being exhibited until Dec 14th. I spotted adverts for the exhibition whilst on the JR Yamanote Line and tracked down the museum in Roppongi.
The exhibition showcases 200 Picasso works from his early works to his career-defining pieces. It contains charcoal drawings of Greek mythology, abstract sculptures, mixed media and of course classic Picasso Cubist oil on canvas work with their heavy lines and stilted shapes.
I have seen my share of Picasso's having visited the Guggenheim Museum's Spanish Paintings from El Greco to Picasso exhibition in Dec '06. But never this many in one exhibition!
It was fascinating to see the development of his style and the variety of mediums that he worked with. I loved Picasso's portraits and landscapes. Some of the artworks though were fairly hard hitting. In particular, Massacre in Korea, 1951, and Reading a letter, 1921.
A nice little Picasso quotation:
"Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth."
— Pablo Picasso
If you're in Tokyo before Dec 14th, go see the exhibition!
One thing that we noticed though is that a lot of retirees visit museums. I think its great that art is appreciated by young and old. At the National Art Center there was a group of 3 adults resting on the awesome chairs they have. They offered to move over so I could sit down and thought we were hilarious ('cause we're Asian and speak English). Anyway one of the ladies found an air vent on the floor and pretended she was Marilyn Monroe. So kawaii! Only in Tokyo.
Murals in the Roppongi Tunnel enroute to the Art Center
Relaxing on the chairs
To get there on the Metro: Get on the Chiyoda Line to Noga-zaki station - its just outside!
PICASSO: From the Collection of the Musee National Picasso, Paris is being exhibited until Dec 14th. I spotted adverts for the exhibition whilst on the JR Yamanote Line and tracked down the museum in Roppongi.
The exhibition showcases 200 Picasso works from his early works to his career-defining pieces. It contains charcoal drawings of Greek mythology, abstract sculptures, mixed media and of course classic Picasso Cubist oil on canvas work with their heavy lines and stilted shapes.
I have seen my share of Picasso's having visited the Guggenheim Museum's Spanish Paintings from El Greco to Picasso exhibition in Dec '06. But never this many in one exhibition!
It was fascinating to see the development of his style and the variety of mediums that he worked with. I loved Picasso's portraits and landscapes. Some of the artworks though were fairly hard hitting. In particular, Massacre in Korea, 1951, and Reading a letter, 1921.
A nice little Picasso quotation:
"Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth."
— Pablo Picasso
If you're in Tokyo before Dec 14th, go see the exhibition!
One thing that we noticed though is that a lot of retirees visit museums. I think its great that art is appreciated by young and old. At the National Art Center there was a group of 3 adults resting on the awesome chairs they have. They offered to move over so I could sit down and thought we were hilarious ('cause we're Asian and speak English). Anyway one of the ladies found an air vent on the floor and pretended she was Marilyn Monroe. So kawaii! Only in Tokyo.
Murals in the Roppongi Tunnel enroute to the Art Center
Relaxing on the chairs
To get there on the Metro: Get on the Chiyoda Line to Noga-zaki station - its just outside!
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