It's Sci-Fi time at the British Library. The long-awaited, and destined to be a classic, exhibit Out of this World: Science Fiction but not as you know it, opens on Friday."This new exhibition will invite visitors to enter the world of the future, alien worlds, parallel worlds and virtual worlds, and speculate on how our universe might change. These imaginings can provoke hopes and dreams, exhilaration or fear – and shed light on the time and place in which they were created. We hope to encourage visitors' questions such as: 'Is there such a thing as a perfect world?' 'When...
Words as Spiritual Armor: The Art of Lesley Dill
Word Messengers (A Single Screw of Flesh is All That Pins the Soul), 2006, organza, ribbon, silk, glueThe current exhibit at The Columbia Museum of Art features the work of the contemporary American artist Lesley Dill.The show, I Heard a Voice: The Art of Lesley Dill, consists of 34 pieces and is "the first retrospective exhibition of the artist of this scale."A Word Made Flesh...Throat, 1994, photolithograph, mixed intaglio, thread, with text by Emily DickinsonFrom the press release:Her pieces give visual form to poetic texts by Emily Dickinson, Salvador Espriu, Franz Kafka and others. For Dill, words are her ‘spiritual armor’ and she freely...
The Book Piles of Ephraim Rubenstein
Book Pile XXXIII. Oil on linen. 36 x 28 inchesThey've been using books in still life painting for a long time. From the rise of the genre in the Netherlands in the the early 17th century to Van Gogh's Still Life with Bible to Mattise's Still Life, Bouquet of Dahlias and White Book the book has always had a prominent place in the artist's imagination. A solid contemporary example is Used and Discarded Books, a new series of paintings by Ephraim Rubenstein. These biblio-portraits breathe grace and beauty into books that have seen better days. Here the value transcends the monetary, and the seemingly unsteady, teetering piles mirror the...
Line of Sight: The World of Timothy Ely
Photo: Young Kwak for The Pacific Northwest InlanderNow on view at the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture is the largest exhibition of the work of Timothy C. Ely ever assembled under one roof.Since the early 1970's Ely has been creating unique, one-of-a-kind mind-bending bookworks. On the form of his work Ely says “I became really aware that the atlas form would be the springboard — the point of departure — for everything I needed to deal with.” Using few, if any, words and drawing heavily from science, geometry, and religion one can spend a lifetime reading and comprehending each...
A Visual Feast: War-Era Food Posters at the National Agricultural Library
Poster by Alva Edwards. Louisiana Agricultural Extension Division, c.1917“I had the conviction that the poster must play a great part in the fight for public opinion. The printed word might not be read, people might not choose to attend meetings or to watch motion pictures, but the billboard was something that caught even the most indifferent eye.” -George Creel, Chairman of the Committee for Public Information, in his World War I memoir, How We Advertised America. When Beans Were Bullets, an exhibit of food and agricultural posters from World Wars I and II currently on view at the USDA’s National Agricultural...