Metropolis II
Chris Burden’s Metropolis II opens this week at LACMA. According to Burden, “The noise, the continuous flow of the trains, and the speeding toy cars, produces in the viewer the stress of living in a dynamic, active and bustling 21st Century city.” And also, I would add, the thrill and the wonder…
The Lion Man of the Hohlenstein Stadel is 32,000 years old
Everything that has happened since the time of Augustus Caesar takes up only 6.25% of the time that the Lion man…
Book Autopsies
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Brian Dettmer creates these fascinating sculptures by carving into books and revealing the illustrations…
Head On (2006)
With few wolves scattered in the front gallery, all ninety-nine wolves run, gallop, and jump toward the far…
Sketch Furniture
Is it possible to let a first sketch become an object, to design directly onto space? The four FRONT members have…
Theo Jansen’s Strandbeest
A scientist-turned-artist, Jansen’s bizarre beach animals have their roots in a computer program…
