Photos from my art show/party last weekend

by Jack Brummet

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Louise Bourgeois's Mamon sculpture

by Jack Brummet

Maman (mother in French) is a thirty foot high sculpture by the artist Louise Bourgeois. She was 87 when she created it in 1998. I saw the original at the Tate Modern in London, and there are six bronze castings in other locations around the world, including one in Bentonville, Ark., home of WalMart.

Detail (The egg sac contains 24 marble eggs):

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Sculpture: The Unnown Official, 1993 by Magnús Tómasson, Reykjavík

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"Expansion," a sculpture in NYC by Paige Bradley

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Moscow Sculptures: Children are the Victims of Adult Vices

By Jack Brummet, Arts & Travel Ed.

In Moscow a few years ago, I had to talk my Kremlin guide into taking me to see these sculptures on the Moscow River. She said they had always spooked her and she waited up the street while I took them in. 

The sculptures by Mihail Chemiakin, "Children are the Victims of Adult Vices," depict 13 vices: alcoholism, child labor, indifference, drug addiction, prostitution, sadism, ignorance, pseudoscience, war, poverty, theft, capital punishment, and violence.

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Wood sculptor at work in Todos Santos

By Jack Brummet, NA American Travel Ed.

This amazing wood sculptor was hard at work in a hallway adjoining an art gallery in El Centro de Todos Santos.

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Photo: Damaged Julius Caesar

Photo by Jack Brummet

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Blue frog sculptures at the North Seattle Household Hazardous Waste Collection Facility

By Jack Brummet

[Photographed February 8, 2015 - click to enlarge]

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Photographs from Bogota's Museo del Oro

By Jack Brummet, Precious Metals Ed.

Bogota's Museo del Oro contains more gold than all the other museums I've seen across the world put together.  Gold is so interlinked with the history and destiny of Colombia that it's inevitable they have this museum.  It ranges from fascinating to amusing.  

My love of museums most often focuses on those that contain paintings (portraits in particular, and sculptures), but this was a glorious exception.  Naturally, I was most fascinated with the faces and masks, but I also include some other pieces here.  Even a couple that are not made of gold, like the carved stone diorama immediately below:

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A racy statue in Beijing's central business district

By Jack Brummet, China Editor

I stumbled onto this interesting sculpture not far from our office in Beijing's CBD. . .

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The Emaciated Siddharta

Keelin took this photo yesterday at a Buddhist art exhibition here in New York. . .this outdoes even some of the wildest sculptures we saw in India. . .

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Arts & Crafts, take 19: a new take on rice carving

Excellent arts & craft:  Jeff Clinton found this great set of photos (creator unknown, so far) on the inets...sort of a new take on rice carving.  The Elvis in particular is awesome.

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Photo: Aphrodite's legs, from the museum at Afrodesia, Turkey

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Bronze statuary group by the beach in Rhodes

click to enlarge The last thing we saw in Rhodes.

This bronze statuary group sat near the beach in Rhodes, fifty feet from where we caught a bus to the port, to sail to the wonderful madhouse that is Santorini/Thira. I have no idea what the subject matter is, or the provenance of the sculpture. . .but I liked it. Then again, I am a sucker for bronzes...

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