The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats

An online exhibition created by The National Library of Ireland. When you enter the tour, you can scan through 200 artifacts & manuscripts and “attend” three in-depth tutorials exploring the evolution of three major poems (‘Sailing to Byzantium’, ‘Leda and the Swan’ and ‘Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen’). You can also listen to Yeats, one of Ireland’s towering poets, reciting his famous poem ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree.’

Architecture Projection Art

Urban Screen building projection videos

Understanding Duchamp

Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp takes you on a journey through the art and ideas of the most influential artist of the 20th century. Animations and interactivity make ideas come alive with an immediacy that only multimedia can provide: you can spin the Bicycle Wheel, shake With Hidden Noise, and manipulate the elaborate allegorical automata of The Bride Stripped Bare by [...]

Cy Twombly at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

For the first time in many years – in some cases decades – visitors to these halls will be able to view works like Sunset (1957), Untitled (1962), exhibited in public for the first time ever, and Venus Anadiomene (1962), all from private European and American collections.

Modern Art. Modern Lives. Then + Now.

The Austin Museum of Art (AMOA) presents Modern Art. Modern Lives. Then + Now. This two-part exhibition, organized by the Austin Museum of Art, draws from AMOA’s permanent collection and local collections to explore how modern and contemporary artists merge art and life. It focuses on two distinct periods and areas: the start of modern art in the late 19th and early 20th century in Europe, and the late 20th and early 21st century from diverse cultures and art centers around the world.

“Modern Art. Modern Lives. Then+Now, comprised of rarely seen work drawn exclusively from local private collections and our own permanent collection, is one of the Museum’s most ambitious and broad-reaching exhibitions,” said Dana Friis-Hansen, AMOA Executive Director.

Hidden Van Gogh painting revealed by giant X-ray

It’s rare that new paintings by Old Masters are discovered. But that’s exactly what happened in the case of a recently uncovered work by Vincent Van Gogh. It was found at a museum in the Netherlands — but the painting wasn’t lost in some dusty corridor, it was hidden under the paint of another Van [...]

Spinning Plates by Ian McWhinnie

This painting by Ian McWhinnie will serve as my status update for the month thus far.

The Future of Making

Two future forces, one mostly social, one mostly technological, are intersecting to transform how goods, services, and experiences—the “stuff” of our world—will be designed, manufactured, and distributed over the next decade.

Displacements film installation

An archetypal Americana living room was installed in an exhibition space. Then two performers were filmed in the space using a 16mm motion picture camera on a slowly rotating turntable in the room’s center. After filming, the camera was replaced with a film loop projector and the entire contents of the room were spray-painted white.

The Telectroscope

Yesterday a giant drill bit broke through the surface in London near the Tower Bridge and a similar one appeared in Dumbo, Brooklyn near The Brooklyn Bridge. This was a sign that Paul St George is very close to completing work on an amazing project started by his great-grandfather Alexander Stanhope St George, The Telectroscope, [...]