Of Monsters and Architects

Unhinged by Jennifer Davis

New work by the Minnesota artist Jennifer Davis can be seen on Art MoCo or on her website. All so cool.

Filed under: Architecture, Art, Blogs, Jennifer Davis, Visual Arts

Havel and Ruck Redux

 
Dan Havel and Dean Ruck, the creators of Inversion, have created a new piece of temporary public art by the Houston artistic team of Dan Havel and Dean Ruck. Located at Project Rowhouses, the structure is part art, part stage and part park. It’s also awesome art. There are concerts and activities planned there (3705 Lyons Avenue, Houston, TX) this fall.

Filed under: Architecture, Art, Current Events, Design, Poetry, Travel, dan havel, dean ruck, Havel Ruck Projects, houston, inversion, Public art

City Lights: Robert Montgomery

The urban lyrics of Robert Montgomery are nested so tightly into the cityscape, you might not notice. But they are there, each of them, a ghost in the machine.

Check out his site here.

(via My Modern Met)

Filed under: Architecture, Art, Design, Photography, Poetry, Travel

Never Sorry by Vicki Dasilva

From Moco Art:

Vicki DaSilva uses tube lamps to create photography based on light graffiti. DaSilva uses this medium to create site-specific installations loaded with socio-political commentary. The single frame time exposure light paintings are made by moving the lamps either by hand or along tracks to create fields of light. Her current show of work, Reverb, features photos based in an abandoned silk factory. The photo above is in reference to the Chinese artist/activist, the pale yellow a nod to the Jasmine Revolution.

Find out more about the artist, Vicki DaSilva, here.

Filed under: Architecture, Art, Photography, Poetry, Light painting, Site-specific art, Visual Arts

Cafes of my Dreams

Although I don’t do it as much as I used to, I still love writing in cafes. I enjoyed this story from Web Urbanist on cafes around the world with uber cool design. Pictured here is the East Beach Cafe in Littlehampton, UK. Check out the other dozen here.

Filed under: Architecture, Blogs, Design, Writing, cafes

On the perilous effects of buried alien spacecraft by peter jay shippy

They told me, fetch the jawbreaker

They told me, take down the wash

They told me, any day now, any day

They told me, one book?—as good as another

They told me, ’til someone loses an eye

They told me, gravity is deafening

Nancy, they told me, Nancy with the laughing face

They told me, just flour water and sea salt

They told me sometimes a rave

They told me sometimes a dove

They told me, they told me

They told me, blow skyward

They told me, stars across the knife

by Peter Jay Shippy
published in Diode

photo by lastplak_artworks

Filed under: Architecture, Art, Photography, Poetry, Science, alien poem, peter jay shippy

The Emperor’s New Soul

A new sculpture exhibit by Jaume Plensa has recently erupted along Buffalo Bayou in Houston. Mr. Plensa will be giving a lecture at the MFAH on February 16, 2011. For complete details, click here.

[photo by the Rice Design Alliance]

Filed under: Architecture, Art, Current Events, Design, Poetry, Travel, Buffalo Bayou, houston, Jaume Plensa, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, sculpture, Visual Arts

More by Banksy

How to start the week? With Banksy, of course!

Other posts on Big Window about Banksy? Click here.

Filed under: Architecture, Art, Design, Travel, banksy, graffiti, Simpsons, Street artist, urban art

Framed by Stuart Haygarth

Follow the link to more cool photos and a video.  (via DesignBoom)

Filed under: Architecture, Art, Current Events, Design, Travel, Arts, london, London Design Festival, Stuart Haygarth, Victoria & Albert Museum

Write to Noguchi 3: Black Hole Sun

Black Hole Sun, originally uploaded by BrianKG.

Filed under: Architecture, Art, Photography, Travel, Writing Exercise, Noguchi, sculpture, Seattle

Write to Noguchi 2

NYC Isamu Noguchi’s Cube 1000, originally uploaded to flickr by njsnowdog.

Filed under: Architecture, Art, Design, Photography, Travel, Isamu Noguchi, new york city, Photography, red cube, sculpture

Write to Noguchi 1

Through the Looking Glass, originally uploaded to flickr by slackley.

Filed under: Architecture, Art, Travel, Writing Exercise, ground zero, new york city, Noguchi, Photography, red cube, sculpture, United States

Death by Kiting

Death by kiting, originally uploaded by nakedgremlin.

I love this love this love this. Here are a few thoughts from the photographer, David Chien:

I’m enveloped in Jacob Hashimoto’s Superabundant Atmosphere. The entire installation was made up of thousands of handmade kites hanging at different lengths from the ceiling.

In person, the piece was incredibly soothing and non-confrontational… unlike the photo — which actually makes it look more like an angry jelly fish wanting to suck my brains out.

The installation was created at the Rice Gallery here in Houston.

Filed under: Architecture, Art, Photography, Poetry, Travel, David Chien, houston, Jacob Hashimoto, Rice Gallery, rice university art gallery

Write to Twombly 3: The Night Watch

My friend Jane and I are writing together this month. Twombly makes the job a lot easier.

Filed under: Architecture, Art, Writing Exercise, cy twombly

The Menil

the menil, originally uploaded by eschipul.

Here’s another so-great photo by Ed Schipul. It’s The Menil Collection, an amazing art museum in Houston. Architecture by Renzo Piano.

Filed under: Architecture, Art, Current Events, Photography, Travel, houston, menil collection, Museums, Renzo Piano