The speckled green glaze is typical of medieval ceramics from the kilns at Mill Green, about forty miles northeast of London. For about a century, beginning around 1270, potters there created tableware both for local use and for sale in the capital and at other locales within about a forty-mile radius, including Kent, Cambridge, and […]
Semi-opaque turquoise blue ground; additions in opaque white and translucent cobalt blue. Squat spherical shape with rounded ends to large vertical hole. Staggered pattern of six white disks, each with rosette of seven eyes in white and blue, but with one disks having only six eyes. Intact; dulling, some pitting, and faint creamy iridescent weathering. […]
Translucent blue green. Fire-rounded, thick, uneven rim, forming end of handle; long hollow neck, tooled in around base, forming handle; body shaped into bowl of spoon with angular bottom and tubular edge. Intact, but small weathered chips in bottom edge of bowl; some elongated bubbles in neck; slight dulling and pitting, and faint weathering on […]
Translucent pale yellowish green; trail in opaque white. Outsplayed rim, folded down, round, and in, with flattened top surface and inner lip around mouth; wide cylindrical neck, with horizontal tooled indent around base; piriform body; slightly concave bottom with pontil scar. Trail applied to center of bottom and wound up in a spiral, extending to […]
Earthen tomb mounds, common burial practice on the Asian continent, were brought to Japan around the third century. Haniwa (clay cylinders)—at times numbering in the thousands—were placed in rows or scattered outside these tombs. Sculptors sometimes topped cylinders with figures or animals, themselves often almost abstract in aesthetic. The shape of this poignant example recalls […]
The store features two new books, “Artists on Walter De Maria” and “Walter De Maria: The Lightning Field”, and a limited edition wallet designed by Comme des Garçons to commemorate the occasion.
Following the first special edition in May 2017, “LA GRANDE OCCASIONE”- Special Edition ofVIDEO SOUND ART, festival and contemporary art production centre – returns to Milanfrom 4th to14th October.The objective isto promote ground-breaking languages and contamination experiences, incentivizing research and new technologies in the arts. Supported byComune di Milano, Regione Lombardia, Fondazione Nuovi Mecenati, and […]
Design by Jeff Ramsey, series cover design by Liam Gillick July 2017, English 10.8 x 17.8 cm, 360 pages, 11 b/w illustrations, softcover ISBN: 978-3-95679-267-0 Publisher: Sternberg Press Berlin Launch: July 14 at Miss Read New York Launch: Sep 14 at e-flux