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The Crying Giant, 10-ft tall bronze maquette sculpture by Tom Otterness. Versions are displayed in Kansas City, Delaware, and the Netherlands. Intended as a 9/11 memorial, the full sculpture was intended to include tears dripping into pools, with an elevator to an observation level.
January 22, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The Crying Giant, 10-ft tall bronze maquette sculpture by Tom Otterness. Versions are displayed in Kansas City, Delaware, and the Netherlands. Intended as a 9/11 memorial, the full sculpture was intended to include tears dripping into pools, with an elevator to an observation level.
Christian Charity, by Bertel Thorvaldsen, 1810, at the Louvre. "From the Renaissance, Charity was represented as a woman tending to children."
January 20, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Christian Charity, by Bertel Thorvaldsen, 1810, at the Louvre. "From the Renaissance, Charity was represented as a woman tending to children."
Interior chapel of Mont St Michel, Normandie, France.
January 17, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Interior chapel of Mont St Michel, Normandie, France.
Greenwich - Prime Meridian. GPS coordinates show the actual meridian about 100 meters east of this in-ground installation at the Greenwich Observatory.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_m...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_m...
January 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Greenwich - Prime Meridian. GPS coordinates show the actual meridian about 100 meters east of this in-ground installation at the Greenwich Observatory.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_m...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_m...
“In A Position To Know”, cover illustration by Coles Phillips, 1921. The use of fewer colors required viewer engagement and saved costs for the publisher.
January 13, 2025 at 1:40 AM
“In A Position To Know”, cover illustration by Coles Phillips, 1921. The use of fewer colors required viewer engagement and saved costs for the publisher.
Long Pond 2, by Virginia Bradley, 2017.
January 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Long Pond 2, by Virginia Bradley, 2017.
Is that a Penny Hardy sculpture hanging out in Kennett Square?
January 9, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Is that a Penny Hardy sculpture hanging out in Kennett Square?
Monumental Holistic VII, by Betty Gold, 1980.
14 ft tall steel work by bettygold.com
14 ft tall steel work by bettygold.com
January 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Monumental Holistic VII, by Betty Gold, 1980.
14 ft tall steel work by bettygold.com
14 ft tall steel work by bettygold.com
January 2, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Payphone-free 4-phone kiosk.
January 2, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Payphone-free 4-phone kiosk.
Rachel Ruysch's "Still Life with Flowers on a Marble Ledge" applies concepts of portraits - detail decreasing toward the rear, colors faded and blurring toward the rear - to create a 3-D depiction of detailed flowers. Court painter in Dusseldorf, and the first woman in the Hague's artist society.
December 30, 2024 at 12:24 PM
Rachel Ruysch's "Still Life with Flowers on a Marble Ledge" applies concepts of portraits - detail decreasing toward the rear, colors faded and blurring toward the rear - to create a 3-D depiction of detailed flowers. Court painter in Dusseldorf, and the first woman in the Hague's artist society.
Big Banana on a Spring, by Dakota Pratt (flattened bottle caps are the skin).
On display with cherries and other works at the Madison Arts Festival, 2016.
chloefinearts.com/artist/dakot...
On display with cherries and other works at the Madison Arts Festival, 2016.
chloefinearts.com/artist/dakot...
December 24, 2024 at 2:23 PM
Big Banana on a Spring, by Dakota Pratt (flattened bottle caps are the skin).
On display with cherries and other works at the Madison Arts Festival, 2016.
chloefinearts.com/artist/dakot...
On display with cherries and other works at the Madison Arts Festival, 2016.
chloefinearts.com/artist/dakot...
Still Life with Two Plums, blown glass in an alder bowl. By Flora C. Mace and Joey Kirkpatrick, 2000.
On display at the Corning Museum of Glass.
See them making big fruit in their Pilchuck hot shop: youtu.be/aC0AH5d-QwU?...
On display at the Corning Museum of Glass.
See them making big fruit in their Pilchuck hot shop: youtu.be/aC0AH5d-QwU?...
December 23, 2024 at 3:05 PM
Still Life with Two Plums, blown glass in an alder bowl. By Flora C. Mace and Joey Kirkpatrick, 2000.
On display at the Corning Museum of Glass.
See them making big fruit in their Pilchuck hot shop: youtu.be/aC0AH5d-QwU?...
On display at the Corning Museum of Glass.
See them making big fruit in their Pilchuck hot shop: youtu.be/aC0AH5d-QwU?...
Pomegranate bonsai, Longwood Gardens.
Trained since 1910.
Trained since 1910.
December 22, 2024 at 3:06 AM
Pomegranate bonsai, Longwood Gardens.
Trained since 1910.
Trained since 1910.
"After the flyers are removed from the telephone pole in a college town and just the staples are left" - Madison, WI. Collective work.
December 20, 2024 at 1:25 PM
"After the flyers are removed from the telephone pole in a college town and just the staples are left" - Madison, WI. Collective work.
Traffic Light Tree by Pierre Vivant, 1998. Moved to this location in the center of a roundabout on Isle of Dogs in 2014. Its 75 sets of lights were originally to reflect London Stock Exchange activity but a random pattern was implemented instead.
December 18, 2024 at 2:17 PM
Traffic Light Tree by Pierre Vivant, 1998. Moved to this location in the center of a roundabout on Isle of Dogs in 2014. Its 75 sets of lights were originally to reflect London Stock Exchange activity but a random pattern was implemented instead.
Spoonbridge and Cherry, Walker Art Museum grounds, Minneapolis Sculpture Garden.
by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, 1988.
walkerart.org/collections/...
Visitor experience: www.lostwithyvonne.com/spoonbridge-...
by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, 1988.
walkerart.org/collections/...
Visitor experience: www.lostwithyvonne.com/spoonbridge-...
December 18, 2024 at 1:42 PM
Spoonbridge and Cherry, Walker Art Museum grounds, Minneapolis Sculpture Garden.
by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, 1988.
walkerart.org/collections/...
Visitor experience: www.lostwithyvonne.com/spoonbridge-...
by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, 1988.
walkerart.org/collections/...
Visitor experience: www.lostwithyvonne.com/spoonbridge-...
Trajans Column, Rome, constructed in the year 113.
Made from Carrera marble, the disks are hollow in the center, where a staircase leads to the top platform.
Made from Carrera marble, the disks are hollow in the center, where a staircase leads to the top platform.
December 16, 2024 at 2:03 PM
Trajans Column, Rome, constructed in the year 113.
Made from Carrera marble, the disks are hollow in the center, where a staircase leads to the top platform.
Made from Carrera marble, the disks are hollow in the center, where a staircase leads to the top platform.
An alternative to electric stations and gas stations: air pumps.
(Copenhagen airport.)
(Copenhagen airport.)
December 14, 2024 at 1:45 PM
An alternative to electric stations and gas stations: air pumps.
(Copenhagen airport.)
(Copenhagen airport.)
The Mosesbrunnen - a statue of Moses that revises earlier depictions showing Moses with horns (aligned with Jerome's translation) to instead depiction radiance (via the Septuagint).
Bern, Switzerland. Built 1544, rebuilt 1791.
See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosesbr...
Bern, Switzerland. Built 1544, rebuilt 1791.
See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosesbr...
December 12, 2024 at 2:36 PM
The Mosesbrunnen - a statue of Moses that revises earlier depictions showing Moses with horns (aligned with Jerome's translation) to instead depiction radiance (via the Septuagint).
Bern, Switzerland. Built 1544, rebuilt 1791.
See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosesbr...
Bern, Switzerland. Built 1544, rebuilt 1791.
See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosesbr...
Molecule by Mark di Suvero, 2015. Minneapolis, outside the Guthrie.
millcitytimes.com/news/2nd-scu...
millcitytimes.com/news/2nd-scu...
December 9, 2024 at 11:25 PM
Molecule by Mark di Suvero, 2015. Minneapolis, outside the Guthrie.
millcitytimes.com/news/2nd-scu...
millcitytimes.com/news/2nd-scu...
Le Magicien, in its original installation outside the Rennes train station (2005-14) before being moved to the gardens (see prior post).
www.sanejouand.com/en/art/sculp...
www.sanejouand.com/en/art/sculp...
December 7, 2024 at 2:07 PM
Le Magicien, in its original installation outside the Rennes train station (2005-14) before being moved to the gardens (see prior post).
www.sanejouand.com/en/art/sculp...
www.sanejouand.com/en/art/sculp...
"Beata Beatrix" by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1870. Modeled after Rosetta's deceased wife and model Elizabeth Siddal, in a setting based on a poem by Dante Alighieri. Siddal was an artist, painter and poet, with 17 of her works in a 2023 Tate exhibition.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabe...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabe...
December 6, 2024 at 8:32 PM
"Beata Beatrix" by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1870. Modeled after Rosetta's deceased wife and model Elizabeth Siddal, in a setting based on a poem by Dante Alighieri. Siddal was an artist, painter and poet, with 17 of her works in a 2023 Tate exhibition.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabe...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabe...
