Category Archives: installations

The Fallen 9000

Posted on June 6, 2014 by jyourist

Last September on Peace Day, British artists Jamie Wardley and Andy Moss, along with 560 volunteers, created 9000 stenciled silhouettes representing those who died on Normandy Beach, Arromanches, on June 6, 1944, 70 years ago today. This visual representation, The Fallen … Continue reading →

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When is a book a book VI: or a wall or a bench or a floor

Posted on December 11, 2012 by jyourist

Rodney LaTourelle, artist, and Thilo Folkerts, landscape architect, created Le Jardin de la Connaisance (Garden of Knowledge) in 2010 in Quebec, an environmental piece created in the outdoors of 40,000 books forming walls and benches and floors. The idea was … Continue reading →

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Four for the fourth—riffs on Old Glory

Posted on July 4, 2012 by jyourist

Nam June Paik’s Video Flag:

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“We the People” ….. in pieces

Posted on June 23, 2012 by jyourist

In a metal workshop in Shanghai, the artist Danh Vo is in the process of having a full-scale copy of Bartholdi’s 1886 Statue of Liberty recreated. However, the intention is that the pieces will not be connected together, but will … Continue reading →

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Inspired by Kiki

Posted on August 16, 2011 by jyourist

Kiki Smith is an artist whose work has always inspired me. Primarily known as a sculptor, she also works in many media including photography which was the focus of I Myself Have Seen It: Photography and Kiki Smith, an exhibition … Continue reading →

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Mmmm….OM…

Posted on July 5, 2011 by jyourist

I have blogged about collections before. In one of my earliest posts I looked at the history of collections and connected it to the ones we have in our home. Later I blogged about MG and GM’s In the Table/ … Continue reading →

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Negotiating boundaries…

Posted on June 26, 2011 by jyourist

Part of JB’s art studio in the house is in half of our bedroom and has been for years. Though this is fine with me on an intellectual level, there has always been a piece of me that finds sleeping … Continue reading →

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In the Table/ On the Wall

Posted on January 16, 2011 by jyourist

Last night was our first public art display in our home by artists other than ourselves– “Michael collects and Gregory paints.” In a previous post, I described our new Amish built display table for our living room, which has allowed … Continue reading →

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Confluence of calligraphy and henna

Posted on November 29, 2010 by jyourist

Lalla Essaydi is an artist who grew up in Morocco. Her work is about the confluence of arabic calligraphy, culturally and historically done by men usually in the transcription of the Qu’ran, and of henna painting traditionally done by women … Continue reading →

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Michael Johansson

Posted on September 2, 2010 by jyourist

This is art made of collections. This Swedish artist takes objects found at flea markets and other places of resale and positions them carefully together in a kind of ultimate packing art, a sculptural tetris, if you will. These are obsessively … Continue reading →

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