Elin Thomas Makes Moldy Petri Dishes Look Cuddly Artist Elin Thomas makes moldy petri dishes look cute and cuddly. Using a combination of embroidery thread, crochet, and needle felting, she creates unique textile pieces. The fuzzy felt produces the effect of tiny hairs sprouting from the yarn spores. Pigeon Presents Kazuhito Takadoi — ABOVE: 'Oeda' (Bough)BELOW: 'Shikaku' (Square) Having studied horticulture in Japan and the US before relocating to the UK, Takadoi enrolled on an Art and Garden Design degree at Leeds Metropolitan University. ‘I remember visiting National Trust gardens on a trip to England when I was 17,’ he recalls. ‘I was fascinated by plants and always wanted to study here. It was perfect for me because it was a chance to learn about environmental art.’
Patricia Swannell Patricia Swannell works predominantly with print, as well as creating fluid large scale abstract watercolours. Her works are inspired by the beauty of nature and the dark threats to the natural world. Patricia collects willow branches and leaves, ferns and grasses. These natural materials are used on the printing press so that the paper becomes embossed with their shapes and textures. From large trees, to tiny seeds and fragile grasses, Patricia’s transforms flotsam and jetsom into works of beauty and resonance. Her focus on environmental matters is also reflected in her work for The Royal Botanic Garden Kew at Wakehurst Place.
Download More than 2,500 Images of Vibrant Japanese Woodblock Prints and Drawings From the Library of Congress Thanks to the Library of Congress, you can browse and download high-resolution copies of more than 2,500 Japanese woodblock prints and drawings from the library’s online collection. The prints, most of which are dated before the 20th-century, were amassed from a large group of collectors, including notable donors such as President William Howard Taft and Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. Despite the diversity of genres and traditions represented by the library’s large collection, the most prolific works are ones created in the tradition of the Japanese art form of Ukiyo-e or Yokohama-e. Ukiyo-e was developed in the city of Edo (now Tokyo) between 1600 and 1868 during a relatively peaceful period. The subject and inspiration for many of the prints includes that of entertainment and leisure, such as scenes from kabuki theater and fashionable restaurants.
Bacteria from 300-year-old Ovid poetry volume inspires 'bio-artist' There was more than poetry trapped between the leather covers of a 300-year-old volume of Ovid’s Metamorphoses: blood, sweat and snot feature in an art installation that displays the bacteria within its pages. The sweat and the droplets from an ancient sneeze that spattered one page were contributed by centuries of previous owners and readers of the book – but the blood was the artist’s own, donated by Sarah Craske as part of the medium for cultivating the organisms. Craske found the rare early English translation of Ovid’s epic Latin poem, published in London in 1735, in a junk shop in Margate.
MAKING A MARK: About David Hockney and Watercolour "With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story as well." David Hockney David Hockney doesn't call 'acrylic paint' watercolour! BACK ISSUES - antennae Browse the contents or download a printable version of any past Antennae issue. Just click on any of the covers. When printing Antennae, consider the environment: print on recycled paper and/or back to front.
Harvard unveils massive Bauhaus collection online Design nerds better sit down for this: Harvard Art Museums just unveiled a 32,000-work-strong online collection of objects related to Bauhaus, no doubt last century’s most influential school of art and design (and host to the best costume parties.) Originally based in three German cities, Bauhaus closed its doors under Nazis pressure in the ‘30s, after which founder Walter Gropius immigrated to Boston and served as chairman of Harvard’s architecture school until retirement. The release of this collection marks the beginning of a broader celebration in 2019, marking the 100th anniversary of the school’s founding. The repository, filled with works by Bauhaus teachers and students, as well as those inspired by Bauhaus pedagogy, is deliciously searchable. You can go straight to items pertinent to Gropius and prominent Bauhaus protégés like Marcel Breuer or Josef and Anni Albers, or narrow things down by topic, medium, date, and more.
scienceloveletters – Science Love Letters The day after 9-11 I sat in a philosophy class, existentialism. I liked the way bracelets slid up and down the teacher’s wrists as he raised and lowered his hands. They clinked against each other, tiny bell sounds above the sleeves of a conventional suit. ArtAtomic: Art, Code and Science of Kristin Henry What possessed me to try #inktober last year? I can’t draw! At least, that’s what I thought.
Jian Chong Min Amazing Landscape Painting Pages Sponsored Links Saturday Jian Chong Min Amazing Landscape Painting 3K+Save Surprisingly, nothing was found online about the artist except here. Probably, name isn't spelled correctly. David Hockney: Drawing from Life (2020) at the National Portrait Gallery I'm very much looking forward to David Hockney: Drawing from Life - at the National Portrait Gallery in early 2020. The NPG last week announced that they would be staging the first major exhibition devoted to David Hockney’s drawings in over twenty years. The exhibition will run 27 February – 28 June 2020.
Marian Goodman Gallery (b. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1970) Julie Mehretu: Sextant, White Cube, London Julie Mehretu: Excavations, University of Virginia Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, Virginia