American Glass Paintings

Oh how I like. These are from New Orleans St. Louis Cathedral.

Food for the soul

Enough with the traveling for a while now. These are from Sculpture Garden at New Orleans. One of the best parts in town. 

From the top by: Robert Indiana, Jaume Plensa, Coosje van Bruggen and Claes Oldenburg, Arman

Thank you Fia!

I met these wonderful pieces by Fia Backström last year at Stockholm's Moderna Museet. 

Guess who is missing her artsy hobbies

Never Sorry

The documentary starts with a story of a cat. One that is different from all the other numerous beasts living in the artist's home. This one can open doors. Just like the other cats it has seen humans do it many times. One day it decided to do the same.

What's the difference between a human and a cat? Only the former feels the need to close the door he has opened.

I'm angry too!

Never quite made it to New York, but I did visit Occupy at St. Paul's in London. This is Sebastian Errazuriz's view. It's an actual chair to sit on.

Loads of Foam and Paint

Now this is how you make album covers. Foam sculptures by Dave Konopka of Battles. Ice cream anyone?

One more

Have I ever mentioned how much I love glass paintings?

Summer and Spring love

Beatriz Milhazes is a Brazilian artist whose works were on display in Lisbon. Three words: colours, life and joy. Love 'em! (The pics are close-ups due to some.. technical problems.)

Gimme something to spray

Back home from well a earned holiday. Portugal was cool. Here's some of the street art I came across. Wish I could add some names.

Freddie Mercury's Garden Door

A replica of it by Graham Dolphin. This you can see in an art gallery the original somewhere in the UK. I spent one chilly and gray afternoon looking for the grave on Jim Morrison in Paris. Not that I'm a huge fan, I do like his music, but more cause it's the thing to do when you're there. Well as it happened I was completely lost and at the wrong cemetary so I got just what I deserved.

Happy Birthday

Thing's have been packing up lately.

This month has been just as cold, snowy and dark as the previous one. Luckily there's cause for celebration. That is to say I have no idea how to party over someone whose been dead for decades.

One of my absolute favourite authors is Charles Dickens. His villains are truly bad, heroes innocent and there's always a happy ending. Some of his novels were originally published in newspapers as serial stories so you can find twists and turns as the story goes along. My favourite it A tale of two cities. Unfortunately Andrew Davies hasn't go his fingers on this one. Yet. So I'll post a wonderful scene from Little Dorrit. Britain's got talent.

Worth an Oscar?

As the year is coming to an end..

I've been going through my pics for the past twelve months. And what treasures have I found. Like this one. The artist is called Edgar Doctor and the painting Green Country.

I'm back

Seen much and experienced more than I can handle.
I'll try to add more of the jungle pics later.

This clip has been on my mind for months.
I love it.
Though I'm not sure if this add does justice to it. Exhibition hall vs. blog site.

Maria van Riebeeck, living in the Cape of Good Hope, sings a lullaby to her adopted indigenous child. The language is not generally known by the 17th century Dutch and she vows to love this girl more than her biological children. I've seen the lyrics in English but failed to find them to add here.




The artist, Andrew Putter works in Cape Town.

The things modern art can do to you

"What a hoax!" I once thought standing in front of toilet doors at a gallery displaying modern art. It took a while 'till I realized they actually were real toilets and that the exhibition was just around the corner.

Here's something I experienced by Peter Kogler last year. Standing in that space all alone was rousing and dizzy at the same time. I could hear epilepsy coming. Loved it.