CLEOpAtra aNd AnTOny's CHiIDren REdisCoVerEd

Cleopatra's twin babies 'Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene' now have a face. An Italian Egyptologist has rediscovered their portrait in a forgotten sculpture at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

Discovered in 1918 near the temple of Dendera on the west bank of the Nile, the sandstone statue was acquired by the Egyptian Museum but has remained largely overlooked.

The babies weren't the firsts for Cleopatra. The Queen of Egypt had already given birth in 47 B.C., when she bore Julius Caesar a child, Caesarion. In 36 B.C. she presented Antony with another son, Ptolemy Philadelphus.

GREen GRAFfiti (Part II): MOSs ON THe WAll

GREen GRAFfiti

Libère ta colère, a photo by streetviability on Flickr.

A great urban art concept. Taggers clean the walls with a pressure-washer instead of spray-painting them.
Translation: "Free your anger"

UReBAN: Think Green

Photo Credit: Andre Forget

David Gallaugher, Kevin James, and Jacob Jebailey.

If you’ve gotta run the wheel, you might as well do it in bare feet. Many of us are so busy being good little hamsters that we never have face time with green space. On one hand, it’s a playful protest to the lack of public green space in Halifax. On the other hand, using sod for their material offers a deeper critique on urban greenery.

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ANGELIQUE: Rethink Sculpture

Translucent sculptures: we look through them, inside them; and if they seem to be floating, we nevertheless feel the weight of their existence. Angelique Lefebvre curiously resolves the ever-present tension between the full and the empty. Her medium? Organza: a material that inspires a strange sensation of mixed immateriality and immanence. The idea of impenetrability imposes itself  with force: we see ‘all’, but the ‘all’ resists us; we are invited to delve within, but all we perceive there is a void, a blankness. 

Contemporary Art Around the World

Flickr Gallery by ARTtune

Ursus Wherli: Tidying up Art

  An obsessive compulsive way to look at art!    Wherli deconstructs and reassembles famous 20th century paintings according to his own aesthetic view point. A fascinating, humorous and engaging 17 min talk on the TED stage. Definitively worth a watch.