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The New York City Waterfalls

Olafur Eliasson’s big new art project commences in New York today, with four waterfalls being installed at various places around the city. The photo here shows the Brooklyn Bridge installation during its test run on Tuesday and the project begins just as Eliasson’s NYC art show is drawing to a close. Brooklyn Bridge, meanwhile, was memorably trashed earlier this year by the Enormous WTF in Cloverfield.

• From a Master of Weather, 4 Waterfalls for New York

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• Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson
• Olafur Eliasson’s BMW
• Olafur Eliasson’s Serpentine Pavilion
• New Olafur Eliasson

Su Blackwell’s book-cut sculptures

Alice—A Mad Tea Party (2006).

More amazing examples at her website. In the pulp paperback world, meanwhile, there’s Thomas Allen.

Alice Through the Looking Glass (2007).

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• The Illustrators of Alice
• Thomas Allen’s paperback art

The art of Rune Olsen

For Everything I Long to Do (2005/08).

A sculpture which resurrects the old tentacle sex motif, part of a series of sculpted works by Rune Olsen exploring unusual erotic permutations; this one of a naked man sniffing round the hind quarters of a wolf (?) also caught my attention.

The octopoid sculpture reminds me that I’d been intending on looking at some of the lesser-known treatments of the tentacle sex theme since I keep running across new examples. Soon maybe, when work here has calmed down a bit.

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• Octopulps

The art of Arnaldo Pomodoro

One of the Italian sculptor‘s many Sphere works, part of a series which began in the Sixties. This one is situated at Trinity College, Dublin.

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• Sculptural collage: Eduardo Paolozzi
• The art of Igor Mitoraj

Saint Sebastian in NYC

The Archer & Saint Sebastian by Lubomir Tomaszewski.

Saint Sebastian is an exhibition of new interpretations of the image of the pierced saint currently running at the CFM Gallery, New York, in association with JKK Fine Arts, “the Gallery of Modern Symbolism”. The show runs from May 9th to June 8th, 2008, and among the artists there’s Michel Henricot who was featured here recently. You can see more of the works in the PDF brochure. Thanks to Jan for the tip!

Saint Sebastian by David Vance.

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• The gay artists archive

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• The art of Michel Henricot
• Guido Reni’s Saint Sebastian
• The art of Takato Yamamoto
• Fred Holland Day