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Tours de Revolutions by Peter Eudenbach (2007).
Built to commemorate the French Revolution, the Eiffel Tower inspired Ferris to create a revolving wrought iron marvel to surpass it. Twenty years later Duchamp’s love of Ferris Wheels led to the first readymade and caused a revolution in art. Tours de Revolution is a Ferris wheel made […]

The Buccaneer was a Picturesque Fellow by Howard Pyle (1905).
Seeing as how Johnny Depp and co. are sailing the Spanish Main once more (to mixed reviews, unfortunately), now is perhaps a suitable moment to note the genesis of our popular conception of buccaneers. The famous characters of the Wild West were being mythologised while […]

Us and Them (Torn Map Collage on Canvas).
At first glance, from afar, Berrini’s works look like a collection of high-quality maps and atlases with unfamiliar continents and geographic markings. As you examine the details of the maps a bit closer, and try to follow the geographic and geopolitical information displayed, you do a double-take […]

If these galleries at the excellent Visual Telling of Stories site were around last year when I posted about Rex Whistler I evidently missed them. Includes pages from his ¡OHO! book of reversals, Gulliver’s Travels, The New Forget-Me-Not and illustrations for Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales.
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Dies Irae.
Jacques Sultana is a French artist whose paintings of naked men are very well-realised—photo-realist almost—but like a lot of gay art don’t do much apart from say “here’s a naked man.” However, his site also has a small gallery of homoerotic fantasy drawings which are equally well-done and far more detailed and imaginative than […]

Ballard on Dalí
The shock of the old.

Not art inspired by LSD but drawings done whilst under its influence.
These 9 drawings were done by an artist under the influence of LSD—part of a test conducted by the US government during its dalliance with psychotomimetic drugs in the late 1950s. The artist was given a dose of LSD-25 and free access to an […]

BLDGBLOG: The Book
From web to print.

Young couple with motor car, c.1910. Photographer unknown.
An exhibition of extraordinary Edwardian colour photographs opens today at the National Media Museum, London Bradford.
This exhibition will open on the 25th May. Marking one hundred years of the first practical process for colour photography—the Autochrome, invented by the Lumiere brothers—the National Media Museum presents a major summer […]

The London Oasis, first seen on Clerkenwell Green last summer, has been resurrected at the Chelsea Flower Show.
London Oasis opened on 19th June 2006 as a temporary structure on Clerkenwell Green.
Designed by architect Laurie Chetwood, the Oasis is a demonstration of sustainability and renewable energy working with architecture to provide a tranquil oasis for London.
The […]