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The Dome Show – Intermedia builds geodesic domes, Vancouver Art Gallery, 1970
These photos of The Dome Show, an exhibition by art collective Intermedia at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1970, are all from the web archive Ruins In Process: Vancouver Art in the Sixties. (See...
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Architectural Jewellery, Dina González Mascaró
Jewellery by Dina González Mascaró, an Argentinian Vancouverite. Her shop on Main Street in Vancouver, Jeweller Bau, is itself a sculpture. Website, blog and Flickr. And this is her CV:
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Jen Stark – cutouts as sculpture
Paper cutout sculptures by Jen Stark. Thanks to Paul for pointing these out. It seems paradoxical that geometry can create a visceral response, but it does.
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Alastair Heseltine woodpile
Alastair Heseltine, sculptor, Hornby Island, British Columbia.
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Coloured plexi beach art installation, Sydney
I have an almost autistic desire for this sculpture installation of coloured plexiglas by Nicholas Elias. It’s part of the Sculpture By The Sea exhibition in Sydney, Australia. It’s a bit annoying...
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Walking bookcase by Wouter Scheublin
Walking bookcase by Wouter Scheublin. ”The movement is based on the principles of the walking platform devised by 19th century Russian mathematician Pafnuty Chebyshev… when pushed, the legs carry the...
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Mystery paper sculptures left in Edinburgh libraries & museums
A mystery sculptor (all that’s known is that she is female) has been leaving these sculptures made from book pages in libraries and museums across Edinburgh. When the sculptures numbered ten she...
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Best decoration of the 2011 holiday season – Xmas tree of books at Vancouver...
“Xmas greadings,” via Michael Turner’s site websit. It’s Vancouver Art Gallery librarian Cheryl Siegel’s annual Xmas tree.
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Karl Mattson’s sour gas escape pod, Rolla B.C.
Pod at Sweetwater 905 Festival 2012. Karl Mattson, an artist from the town of Rolla in Northern B.C., produced this “escape pod” artwork last year. I saw it a few weeks ago on the concert grounds of...
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Designer Tobias Wong at the Museum of Vancouver
A retrospective of the work of Vancouver designer Tobias Wong (1974-2010) opens tonight at the Museum of Vancouver. It’s curated by Todd Falkowsky who, along with his colleagues at the Canadian Design...
View ArticleSophisticated sundial clock in Medellín, Colombia
A little hard to tell from these photos how beautiful this clock is. Depending on which side of noon you are, you view either one side or another. I believe noon hits (more or less) the circle in...
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