Author Topic: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.  (Read 32341 times)

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #100 on: 13 November, 2021, 12:52:03 pm »

What is this alien landscape? Sheep grazing among rows of 10-foot high glass pyramids? It's faintly surreal. Maybe a set from a sci-fi film.

It's the roof of James Marshall's Temple Mill, a flax factory built in Leeds in 1840. The glass pyramids were conical skylights to illuminate the factory floor. The whole building was styled like an Egyptian temple, with columns and an obelisk hiding the chimney.


http://www.aleedsrevolution.co.uk/design-re-defined-the-audacious-brilliance-of-temple-works-
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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #102 on: 19 November, 2021, 08:38:07 am »
I saw that Shaun Ryder on my tellybox the other day.

I think I also saw him in Star Wars.
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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #103 on: 08 December, 2021, 01:37:32 pm »
This seems like the right place...


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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #104 on: 08 December, 2021, 01:46:30 pm »
You will of course  be sending a copy to No 11 Downing St.   I'm sure Carrie Antoinette would love one for the kitchen....
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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #105 on: 08 December, 2021, 02:39:46 pm »
They don't deserve it.

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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #106 on: 09 December, 2021, 12:05:42 am »
Right, everyone who said they wanted one in advance has ordered, so I'll open the remainder up to the peanut gallery: clicky to order



(Apologies for the crudity of the order page.  I didn't have time to build it to scale or to paint it.  Rest assured the abandoned fridges are absolutely top-notch, and only one was harmed in the process of making the sample images.)

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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #108 on: 29 December, 2021, 11:56:14 am »
Top left: is that a narwhal?  RAAAAWWWWWRRRRR!

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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #109 on: 29 December, 2021, 12:24:46 pm »
Actually, it is a doe wearing a not-party hat not-attending the not-party that was not-held by not-the PM.

They are all rather beautiful and eating them would be a shame, but probably delicious.
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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #112 on: 31 January, 2022, 10:37:12 am »
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-59639548   &    https://museumcrush.org/sheffield-celebrates-the-forgotten-artwork-of-kenneth-steel/






A friend went to see this yesterday & said it was fantastic.   I might pop over next weekend to see it and also the Bloomsbury exhibition at the Millenium Gallery.


https://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/museums/millennium-gallery/exhibitions/beyond-bloomsbury-life-love-and-legacy
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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #113 on: 31 January, 2022, 12:02:45 pm »
Is the figure a representation of Bloody Stupid Johnson spreading Tory munificence to the adoring proles of the Red Wall?

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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #114 on: 01 February, 2022, 11:00:54 am »
No idea how I ended up here, but this definitely raises a smile - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkOAUht3G5o

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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #116 on: 07 March, 2022, 03:50:58 pm »
"A virtual, temporary, ad hoc Bauhaus."
https://www.ft.com/content/a31374e9-b007-4c4c-9b20-0cef13f5c997
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(also posted in "Random entertainment things" – debatable which is more appropriate; I didn't even realize we had two threads!)
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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #117 on: 07 March, 2022, 09:30:00 pm »
I'm watching Daniel Barenboim conducting the Berlin Staatskapelle in a concert for peace.

He really has an idiosyncratic conducting style. I normally expect conductors to beat time with the hand in which they hold the baton, and give specific directions with the other hand. I've noticed before that Barenboim spends quite long periods on the rostrum hardly moving at all. I'm guessing that, as he invariably works with such well-rehearsed, talented musicians, by the time they are in the concert hall, he hasn't got a lot to do.
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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #118 on: 08 March, 2022, 10:37:07 am »
Mary Anne Hobbs has opened her show today, International Women's Day, with X Ray Spex Oh Bondage! Up Yours!

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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #120 on: 03 April, 2022, 06:53:29 pm »
Apropos of nothing at all, I recalled two brilliant BBC programmes from quite a while ago, the sort of thing that really ought to be on iPlayer

The first was He Dances for his Cormorants, originally broadcast in 1995, and about a Chinese fisherman raising and training cormorants to fish for him - filmed on the Lijiang river.

The other was China; Beyond the clouds, a cinema verite series about life (and death - I recall the public executions of drug dealers) in the Chinese town of Lijiang, from 1994.
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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #121 on: 04 April, 2022, 03:21:23 pm »
To Southend yesterday for the last day of the East London Group exhibition (been meaning to go for months). Very good.

Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #122 on: 13 April, 2022, 02:06:16 pm »
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/jewish-country-houses/


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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #123 on: 14 April, 2022, 10:09:15 pm »
Radio 3 have spent a good deal of the past week broadcasting very fine music from all over Europe as part of the European Broadcasting Union's week of Easter Music.

They seem to be completely unaware that we've got a war on brexit done.
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Re: A random thread for small art things not warranting their own thread.
« Reply #124 on: 14 April, 2022, 10:29:33 pm »
The EBU is an alliance of broadcasters for cooperating on technical issues.  It has nothing to do with the EU or even the continent of Europe, so I don't think the BBC ever had reason to leave.