Still thinking about…: A Roundup

Posted on by Zoe S.

Alyson Shotz‘s sublimely beautiful, scientifically informed installations.

Alyson Shotz, White Wave, 2013. Edythe and Eli Broad Museum, East Lansing, MI. Robert Hensleigh.
Alyson Shotz, White Wave, 2013. Edythe and Eli Broad Museum, East Lansing, MI. Photo by Robert Hensleigh.
Alyson Shotz, Geometry of Light (2011). Photo by Jeremie Souteyrat.
Alyson Shotz, Geometry of Light (2011). Photo by Jeremie Souteyrat.

Theaster Gates‘s visually and aurally stunning video Billy Sings Amazing Grace.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAaLXBUXEcA&feature=youtu.be

Jehan Georges Vibert’s challenge to 19th century photography in black and white oil paint.

Jehan Georges Vibert, Apotheosis of Louis-Adolphe Thiers, c. 1878. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Benjamin S. Bell.
Jehan Georges Vibert, Apotheosis of Louis-Adolphe Thiers, c. 1878. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Benjamin S. Bell.

Wolfgang Laib’s cozy wax room at the Phillips Collection.

Wolfgang Laib, Wax Room. (Wohin bist Du gegangen-wohin gehst Du?/Where have you gone-where are you going?), 2013. The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. Photo by Lee Stalsworth.
Wolfgang Laib, Wax Room. (Wohin bist Du gegangen-wohin gehst Du?/Where have you gone-where are you going?), 2013. The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. Photo by Lee Stalsworth.

Fallen Fruit‘s tasty wallpaper and even tastier public engagement project at the Skirball.

Anish Kapoor‘s black (blue) hole.

Anish Kapoor, At the Hub of Things, 1987. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of the Marion L. Ring Estate, by Exchange, 1989.
Anish Kapoor, At the Hub of Things, 1987.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of the Marion L. Ring Estate, by Exchange, 1989.

Jean-Michel Othoniel‘s giant peony-colored tangle of handblown glass beads.

Francesco Pesellino’s intimate and tender Virgin and Child.

Francesco Pesellino, Virgin and Child with Swallow, mid-1450s. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
Francesco Pesellino, Virgin and Child with Swallow, mid-1450s. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

Alice Oswald’s heartbreaking performance of her book Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad at the Hammer last year.

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