Iconography is the science of identification, description, classification, and interpretation of symbols, themes, and subject matter in the visual arts. The earliest iconographical studies, published in the 16th century, were catalogs of emblems and symbols collected from antique literature and translated into pictorial terms for the use of artists. The Read more…
The House of Peace is an unrealized proposal for a mobile monument by Studio Other Spaces of Olafur Eliasson that was developed by invitation for the House of Peace (HOPE) competition. An emblematic monument to world peace moored in Copenhagen’s Nordhavn harbor, the House of Peace is mobile – as a Read more…
The idea for My Bed was inspired by a depressive phase in the artist’s life when she had remained in bed for several days without eating or drinking anything but alcohol. Having recently broken up a relationship she remained ensconced in her room, in both a disconsolate state and stupor. Read more…
Bicycle Wheel Sculpture by Marcel Duchamp, Paris 1913 This readymade described by Duchamp as a “pleasant gadget,” combined a stool with a wheel, which was intermittently turned so that it would revolve for viewers. Duchamp called this an “assisted readymade” since it was based on the combination of two different Read more…
A Public Intervention by Olafur Eliasson on Museum-City Relation, executed in 2015 in the village of Dong Zhuang, China. In this intervention, two large spheres, one of glass and one of obsidian, appeared unexpectedly on a pile of rubble situated between houses in the village of Dong Zhuang, China. Executed Read more…