This image is a photomosaic of the famous painting ‘Starry Night‘. The image is made with over 210.000 tiny photographs and a total size of over 1.500.000.000 points in other words it is a 1.5 Gigapixel Image. Click over the image (Zoom In) until you start to see the tiny images.
The crew at Mythbusters shows us how:
Artist Tim Fraser has created a reproduction of Édouard Manet’s ‘Bar at the Folies Bergere’ made entirely of old Pantone chips.
Over 5,000 unused chips were painstakingly colour matched and and stuck down over four long nights, and acted as centre piece for a boozey party in our design studio.
This has to be the coolest place to live ever. Architectural designer Eric Clough embedded the New York City Apartment of the Klinsky-Sherry Family with clues, puzzles, hidden compartments, coded poems, and even a secret soundtrack. Definitely the ultimate house for the mistery solver!.
Art Basel the largest art trade show int he world opens tomorrow. From the press release:
The world’s premier international art show for Modern and contemporary works, Art Basel features nearly 300 leading galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa. More than 2,000 artists, ranging from the great masters of Modern art to the latest generation of emerging stars, are represented in the show’s multiple sections. The exhibition includes the highest-quality paintings, sculptures, drawings, installations, photographs, video and editioned works.
Opens throught June 8, take a look at the online catalog.
The Indianapolis Museum of Art plans to announce that it has acquired a trove of work and correspondence by Weegee, the New York photographer whose visceral pictures became a template not only for artists like Diane Arbus but also for much of the uncomfortably close tabloid imagery that exists today.
The photos were found in a trunk bought by two Indiana women that contained 210 vintage prints by the photographer.. The trunk is assumed to have once been the possession of Wilma Wilcox, a social worker who was Weegee’s companion and lived with him from 1957 until his death in 1968.
Enjoy this slideshow of some of the photos found on the trove.
4 priceless works of art stolen in 2007 were recovered by the french police near Marseille. Ten people involved in the robbery have been arrested. Among the works recovered is “Falaises pres de Dieppe,” (Cliffs near Dieppe) painted by Monet in 1897, pictured above.
Through December 30, Damien Hirst presents the sculpture “End Game”:
From the museum’s press release:
End Game, a sculpture completed in 2004 by British artist Damien Hirst (b. 1965), is now on view at the MFAH, in its first public showing in the United States. The work, a loan from local collectors Jereann and Robert Chaney, is one of the artist´s masterpieces, asking the ultimate question: what does it mean to be human?
More information at the museum’s website for the exhibit.
Check these brilliant new coin designs for the UK currency, when arranged properly the form the Royal coat of arms. The designs were chosen from an open competition and belong to Matthew Dent, originally from Bangor who now lives and works in London as a graphic designer.
Vandals broke sunday night into the Museè d’Orsay and punched a 4 inch hole into Monet’s painting “The Bridge of Argenteuil”. You can see details of the damage done to the painting above. This makes me cringe, unforgivable behavior.
