Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts

Sunday, 15 April 2012

A dramatic surprise on a quiet square

To launch the high quality TV channel TNT in Belgium they placed a big red push button on an average Flemish square of an average Flemish town. A sign with the text "Push to add drama" invited people to use the button. And then they waited...

Friday, 10 February 2012

Kusama's mirrored rooms

The Passing Winter © Tate.
Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has made a rare appearance in the UK to mark the opening of a major retrospective of her work at Tate Modern. It is her first visit outside Japan for 12 years. The 82-year-old has lived voluntarily in a psychiatric institution since 1977 but works in a studio across the street to create her art. She  is known for the signature recurring polka dots which dominate her work.