tag: OtherPeoplesArt

Abramović and Ulay, Breathing In/Breathing Out: two faces locked mouth to mouth, trading one breath back and forth Abramović and Ulay, Pietà: he lies white-clothed across her lap over a spill of red cloth as she looks upward Duchamp's Air de Paris: a glass ampoule like a teardrop ornament, hooked at the top, hanging on a thread — fifty cc of Paris Urs Fischer's A Place Called Novosibirsk: a push broom standing in an empty gallery, held upright only by a red balloon tied to its handle Robin Minard's à voir, en silence: a black boxed edition holding a grey CD in the lid and a handwritten score sprouting wiry stems tipped with small piezo discs Kara Walker's Burn: black paper silhouette of a girl with braids standing in cut flames, a gnarled plume of smoke towering above her Leonardo da Vinci drapery study: brush and grey tempera on linen of heavy cloth over a kneeling figure, the folds modeled in white heightening Maerten de Vos, The Temptation of Saint Anthony: demons haul the saint into the sky by his cloak while below Anthony walks past lions, a devil-drummer and an elephant with a howdah Frans Floris, The Fall of the Rebel Angels: armored archangels with swords and shield drive a writhing avalanche of muscular demon bodies down out of the light Bill Viola's Dolorosa: a hinged diptych of two video portraits in the manner of devotional panels — a curly-haired woman and a bearded man, both weeping with closed eyes Early Netherlandish panel of Eve holding the apple beside the tree, the serpent coiled up the trunk wearing a woman's golden-haired face, the paint finely crackled Two hand-painted matryoshka-style dolls with sad pink faces — one hooded in cream, one with a golden bob — above a black pointed hood and a tiny red gem Yayoi Kusama's Fireflies on the Water: an infinity mirror room strung with countless golden points of light trailing into black water Wide still from Bill Viola's Going Forth By Day: a procession of people carrying bags and jackets walks steadily through a sunlit pine forest Janine Antoni's Lick and Lather: two self-portrait busts side by side, one licked-down chocolate, one washed-away white soap, on classical pedestals Kiki Smith's Lilith: a black bronze woman cast from life, crouching upside down high on the gallery wall, glass eyes looking back over her shoulder Mina Loy's Love Songs in manuscript, 1915: the poem beginning Spawn of Fantasies in a looping hand, signed and dated Teiji Furuhashi's Lovers: life-size nude figures projected walking and running around a dark room, a scaffold tower of projectors at its centre Marqueste's Perseus Slaying Medusa in marble, seen from below: the hero's arm grips the screaming gorgon by her snake-tangled hair Small verdigris bronze: a rough crouched form, part shell and part gilled fungus, raised on thin wire legs over a bed of cast leaves Susan Harbage Page's Palimpsest: black-and-white photograph of a nude torso covered in dark tally marks scored across the skin Beksiński painting: a figure with wild red hair and bared teeth, pearls at the throat, wrapped in a rotting ornate garment amid an orange haze Charles-Auguste Mengin's Sappho: the poet in black veils bare-chested on a sea cliff at dusk, lyre at her hip, eyes downcast Gallery corner installation of cut paper: red arteries, cream intestines, and green organs cascading down the white walls onto the concrete floor Hugo van der Goes's The Fall of Man: Adam and Eve stand naked by the fruit tree while the serpent, a lizard with a woman's head, watches Eve reach for an apple Daniel Lefcourt's The Invention of Public Relations: gold-painted nuggets, a slide projector and carousel, rulers, gloves, and archive photos knolled on grey Duchamp's To Be Looked at (from the Other Side of the Glass) with One Eye, Close to, for Almost an Hour: a striped pyramid and lens on shattered glass Close detail of a Van Gogh flower still life: asters and chrysanthemums in pink, ochre, and red built up in thick ridged impasto strokes Victor Hugo's ink and sepia-wash drawing of an octopus, its curling tentacles emerging from golden-brown stains Vija Celmins graphite ocean drawing: an even field of small waves rendered wave by wave, no horizon Vija Celmins night sky: white stars of varying sizes scattered dense across a black field Jean Fouquet's Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels from the Melun Diptych: the pale crowned Virgin bares one breast amid red and blue seraphim Painting of a huge grey wolf's head hanging upside down among pale birch trunks, jaws open, while a small child covers their face below Ingres's Jupiter and Thetis: the sea nymph kneels against the enthroned god's knee, one arm raised to his chin in supplication, an eagle at his side Mark Ryden-style painting in a heavy gilded frame: a big-eyed brown-skinned girl with a white hair bow and lace collar

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