I can’t get a bigger image thanks to the flickr settings on this photo, but click on it to see a larger version. The drawings in the style of Keith Haring at the bottom are a nice touch. Via the lovely and talented Jeff Simmermon.
My apologies for holding my camera a bit crookedly. I’m no James Kalm.
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Vlatka Horvat, Birds Shelf, 2009
Modified wood table top, 13 photo-sensitive bird figurines
You can see her show, along with Sarah Greenberg Rafferty’s at The Kitchen through March 7.
Currently running at Jack the Pelican Presents through February 9. From the press release:
Have a cup of tea, sit back on the couch and escape into the spectacular musings of the quaintly naughty Mr. Benn. The timely anachronism of Richard Wilson’s mechanistic renderings of super-tech ideas points to Britain in an era when unassuming people lived in modest circumstances. …It’s a remarkably different world than our own. …Or is it?
Visit Wikipedia for more on Mr. Benn.
Large poster of Hindenburg during the first ballot of the Reich presidential election, March 13, 1932
I am really enjoying looking through the images provided by the German Federal Archives to Wikimedia Commons. Look at that building! We can barely get anything that modern in New York in 2009!