Alternate Realities

Giolight chandelier Johanna Grawunder 2008

„Because memory and sensations are so uncertain, so biased, we always rely on a certain reality – call it an alternate reality – to prove the reality of events. To what extent facts we recognize as such really are as they seem, and to what extent these are facts merely because we label them as such, is an impossible distinction to draw. Therefore, in order to pin down reality as reality, we need another reality to relativize the first. Yet that other reality requires a third reality to serve as its grounding. An endless chain is created within our consciousness, and it is the maintenance of this chain which produces the sensation that we are actually here, that we ourselves exist.”

Haruki Murakami: South of the Border, West of the Sun

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Roly-Poly

Seated Female Figure

2500-1500 BC

Northern Afghanistan

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Sculpto-Painting 2

Provocative and Natural Form Organization

Knud Merrild

1933

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Sculpto-Painting

Woman with Hat

1916 

Coquette

1948

Alexander Archipenko

"faceted planes and negative space to create a new way of looking at the human figure, showing a number of views of the subject simultaneously"

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Spiritual Expressionism

The Newspaper as National Voodoo:

A Brief History of the USA

1986

Some Things from Sleep:

For Jane and Charlie

1986 

David Wojnarowicz

Ends and Exits

"illustrative fusion of man and machine... inflammatory 

symbolism... cadence of aggression and agony"

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Visual Models

Figures

Sarah Charlesworth

1983

Ends and Exits

"drawing attention to and reformulating the visual models by which we picture the world"

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Vinyl Art

Haim Steinbach

Vinyl That Already Looks Wet

1986

Ends and Exits

"arrangement of everyday objects with added structure and frame radically redefining the status of the object is art"

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Portrait Still Life

   Still Life with Portraits

Meyer Vaisman

1988

Ends and Exits

"bringing together Pop, Minimal and Conceptual art with social theory ...applying strategies of mass production to handmade objects..."

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Grey Shadows

Art of the Pacific

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Keeping an Eye

in Papua New Guinea

Art of the Pacific

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Painting

Korean Art Gallery

a place to learn about brush painting and art from Korea and China

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Story Time

Children's Gallery

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Painter and Painting

Art Camp

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ABC Architecture

Resnick Pavilion

Renzo Piano

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Art-chitecture 4

The 2000 Sculpture

Walter de Maria

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Art-chitecture 3

Shafted

Barbara Kruger

a three story artwork installed inside of the massive glass-enclosed elevator shaft

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Art-chitecture 2

 Smoke

Tony Smith

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Glass Music

Music

Véra Lysková

The Studio Glass Movement

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Art-chitecture

Chris  Burden

Urban Light

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