All Blog Posts Tagged 'museum' (21)

A bright installation has just popped up in Montreal! Inspired by Claude Monet's famous 1873 painting Poppy Field, landscape artist and architect Claude Cormier has taken 5,060 red, green and white temporary overlay markers (or those raised markers that delineate temporary lanes on highways) and turned them into a pixelated poppy field. The "poppies" cover Du Musee Avenue, a…

On display at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art until February 23 are Megan Geckler's new site-specific installations constructed with her signature material - flagging tape. Using careful mathematical calculations, she transforms the space with bright bursts of color. The show, titled “…

Japanese artist Shinji Ohmaki just sent us these photos of his latest installation at the Singapore Art Museum. Known for bringing bare white rooms to life with his use of pigments and stencils, Ohmaki worked with a team, over the course of 10 days, to create this colorful wonderland.…

On September 22, a new art gallery space will be unveiled at France's famous Louvre museum that has an incredibly striking feature. The permanent home to the museum’s extensive collection of Islamic art, the new Department of Islamic Arts will be covered with a "Golden Cloud" which will seem like it's floating. The undulating, iridescent roof is meant to be a "gentle and non-violent…

While children's author and illustrator Maurice Sendak will always be known for his classic book Where the Wild Things Are, he produced nearly 10,000 works of art and related material. In the early 1970s, Sendak chose the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to be the repository for this work. They hold everything from his…

I received an email this morning from The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Corporate Communications department that contained a beautiful gif that I just had to share. First issued in 1925, this old polychrome woodblock print, called Zojoji Temple in Shiba by prominent Japanese artist Kawase Hasui, has…

A new exhibit at the V&A gives seven experimental architects the opportunity to showcase small structures. The spaces will be installed at a number of locations throughout the museum. Despite their size, they are meant to act as an immersive place reflection where visitors can directly experience the architecture.



"This exhibition will investigate small-scale structures and how they can define and enhance notions of everyday life and…

Car history buffs rejoice! If you ever wanted to see a complete timeline of 120 years of automotive history, you'll want to check out the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany. You'll have to trek through nine levels as the…

If you happen to go to the Bristol Museum to see Banksy's new show, look up and you'll see this distraught Ronald McDonald sitting on top of the main entrance. With mascara-stained tears running down its cheeks and a half-drunk bottle of Bell's whisky standing next to it, this is one Ronald you'd never see inside a McDs!…