The Tastemakers Society

If you’re walking thru the streets of Sydney, Australia anytime soon take a look up to see if you see these glowing Tetris blocks hanging from buildings. The blocks are positioned to appear to be falling from the sky, I’m not sure who made the blocks but I know you can find more images of the Tetris sculptures here.

susy oliveira - sculptor

It’s no secret that I enjoy love big art and sculpture work, the bigger the better. So when Wallpaper* magazine featured some work from sculptor Anish Kapoor it struck a chord in me, I was in awe, the first time you saw The Never Ending Story, awe. Anish Kapoor’s work is not just big but gigantic, his sculptures causes scenes, stopping people in there tracks gathering into crowds making his art a constant centerpiece of whatever environment he puts its. Take a look for yourself.

The Tree of Life, sounds like the fountain of youth right? Well, the only difference is one really exist, and neither really give you any extra time on your lifespan. The Tree of Life is a 145 ft high, 50 ft wide and is a  sculpture created by the work of over a dozen artist, with 325 animal carvings placed all over it. The tree is the centerpiece of Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Florida. This just adds the whole magical experience that is Disney World, were life changes after you walk thru those Disney gates. the images…

Landscape art is what I’m calling these series of works by LA artist Joshua Callaghan. He’s making ordinary objects, like a street utility box, into blending art works, the works blend in with the natural environmental surroundings of the object that’s getting Callaghan’s vinyl graphic put on.  

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Zoltar the magnificent not the machine is a design collective created by Dan Macmillian and Keiron Livingstone in collaboration with Nike has made a Wunderland. It’s an instillation made up of sculptures and illustrations using Nike inspired influences as the focal point for all the pieces, it was debuted at the London Frieze Art Fair. Wunderland was such a hit at Frieze that Nike decided to run it again at the upcoming Art Basel (Dec. 4-7). Check out an interview with the Zoltar creators and image of some of their sculpture pieces here.

Back in 2000 Bruce Gilchrist and Jo Joelson wanted to create an organization that they could house all their creative and art driven projects thus London Fieldworks was born. Their projects usually consist of some type of collaboration between art and science resulting in some interesting things, like their blue man head project or their current project Super Kingdom (picutred after the jump).

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This 26ft interactive sculpture piece done by Jean Shin for The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia used thousands (22,528) of recycled computer keycaps and 192 custom keycaps. The keys spell out line by line the email correspondents between Jean Shin and the museum regarding making the exhibition. So in a sense the process of making the piece is actually the cause of the piece in the first place, using it’s own making to be the final end piece to it all. You can also type new messages that will show up on the monitor allowing you to continue the conversation that was started between Shin and the museum. TEXTile images after jump.

Theo Yansen a sculptor from Holland uses wind to make his creations come to life.

So apparently I don’t watch as much TV or am as global as I thought, but good thing other people are. Like K-Fresh, I was on her site looking around when I ran across this all grenade-wood jewelry box made by an art group out of Cuba known as Los Carpinteros. There work is amazing and you can go visit their site here or even better look at this feature done by Frontline/world about the Cuban art revolution.

Have you ever wondered what it be like if cartoons were real, would bugs bunny be like one of the coolest dudes ever, would elmer fud get protested on by PETA, would donald duck be that dumb ass who never seems to go away, would wiley cyote have a good health insurance, who knows. Do I wish they could be real, sure, why not I’d like to get  CC and coke with bugs any day, but since that will never happen we can aleast imagine some what through art. There’s an exhibition up at the natural history museum in Basel, Switzerland that imagines what the bone structure of cartoons would be if they were real.

cartoon skeletons

The NY Times has a photo gallery of Jeff Koons sculptures that are on display at the Chateau de Versailles. The exhibition at Versailles is showing until December 14th and has 17 Koons sculptures showing.

Jeff Koons photo gallery