I Art You: The Miniature Art on the Tip of Pencil by Dalton Ghetti

I am speechless. Speechless can mean bad or good, but in this case it means magnificent! Artist Dalton Ghetti said, ““At school I would carve a friend’s name into the wood of a pencil and then give it to them as a present. Later, when I got into sculpture, I would make these huge pieces from things like wood, but decided I wanted to challenge myself by trying to make things as small as possible. I experimented sculpting with different materials, such as chalk, but one day I had an eureka moment and decided to carve into the graphite of a pencil”

 

 

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Double Helix by Franco Castelluccio (ART)

Sculptor Franco Castellucio confronts science and art in his latest work, “The Double Helix XX-XY.” The work images an animated strain of DNA, with sinuous male and female bodies twisting to the top. Castellucio also twists the notion of “survival of the fittest,” his desire being that people confront, in his work, the notion of enduring compassion.

The sculpture is accompanied by a new book, Double Helix.

MoMA Meet terrarium. Terrarium Meet MoMA

The MoMA in New York is showing terrariums now!! Wow, terrariums as art.

Living and Growing at MoMA: Paula Hayes’s Installation in the Museum Lobby

 

Paula Hayes. Installation view of Nocturne of the Limax maximus (Slug at left, Egg at right) at The Museum of Modern Art. 2010. Installation: cast acrylic, hand-blown glass, CNC-milled topographical wall and ceiling attachment, full-spectrum lighting, tropical planting. Commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art. Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery. © Paula Hayes. Photo: Jason Mandella

MoMA’s lobby is a site of perpetual flux and frenzy, a public passageway for people to meet, greet, rest, or chat before embarking on their next experience, either inside or outside the Museum’s walls. When asked by Ann Temkin, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture, to think of forms that would visually complement and invigorate the rectangular and column-filled lobby space, Paula Hayes, a New York-based sculptor and landscape designer, who enjoys “knocking something off kilter a bit,” was ready to take up the challenge.

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