Artwork: New World Baroque.
Correspondence, personal documents, drawings, paintings, and photographs, relating to official German artwork during World War II.
Collectors and curators appear to have wearied of moralistic artwork on world issues.
When a mirror is incorporated into an artwork, the world is invited into the piece -- every visitor, iPhone, museum guard and cleaning crew becomes part of the art.
Lego artist Mike Doyle -- yes, the Mike Doyle who created a 200,000-brick alien city -- has compiled a massive compendium of the best Lego artwork the world has to offer.
The looting of the artwork during World War II, epic ownership battle with the Italian government, rightful return to the owners and very quick turnover to auction is headline deserving, but hardly mentioned in Christie's promotional materials.
As Clarice Lispector writes in Agua Viva: "Take away frame or contours and it spreads, as water pours". When a mirror is incorporated into an artwork, the world is invited into the piece -- every visitor, iPhone, museum guard and cleaning crew becomes part of the art.
Lagoons and landscapes were designed by Frederick Law Olmsted; 65,000 exhibits in some 200 buildings displayed turbines, artworks and world cultures.
This clarity of vision may be the film's most terrifying irony -- irony, of course, being the mode most appropriate to artworks about World War I, as Paul Fussell wrote in his study "The Great War and Modern Memory".
There couldn't be a better crucible than here on Teesside for the biggest public artwork in the world, just announced for five connected sites in the Tees Valley, from Darlington to Hartlepool and Redcar.
