Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery - Industrial Gallery - The Soho House Sphinxes

A few nice photo galleries images I found:

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery - Industrial Gallery - The Soho House Sphinxes

Image by ell brown
Now that I know that you can take photos inside the Birmingham Musuem & Art Gallery, thought I'd go along and take what I wanted (not the paintings).

This is in the part of the museum near Great Charles Street Queensway.

On Friday it opened at 10:30am and I got here just in time before the crowds showed up.

The Industrial Gallery - usually I keep forgetting to go this way.

But then I started in reverse order than usual (Great Charles Street entrance to Chamberlain Square entrance / exit).

Been wanting to take these for a while.

Sure I saw them 3 years ago near the Gas Hall entrance.

The Soho House Sphinxes.

I believe that there are plans to move them back to Soho House, so wanted to get them in the Museum & Art Gallery before they move them.

Made of Carved Portland Stone. Supplied by Edward Gray Saunders in 1795.

Originally they were either side of "Sphinx Walk" in the landscaped garden created at Soho House.

They were up for auction in 2001, and the Birmingham Museum managed to secure a licence to purchase them due to their national importance.

The spinx on the left.


The Industrial Gallery is all in exposed ironwork: seven aisled bays with columns in two tiers, semicircular arcades and cross-arches in the aisles, larger semicircular trusses supporting the roof, all of them exposed I-beams with the rivets prominent. Like a classical version of the Oxford Museum; but the immediate inspiration must be J.H. Chamberlain's Board Schools. Huge pendant gas burners. T-plan staircase of 1893, with a different design of railings.

From Pevsner Architectural Guides: Birmingham by Andy Foster

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery - Industrial Gallery - The Soho House Sphinxes

Image by ell brown
Now that I know that you can take photos inside the Birmingham Musuem & Art Gallery, thought I'd go along and take what I wanted (not the paintings).

This is in the part of the museum near Great Charles Street Queensway.

On Friday it opened at 10:30am and I got here just in time before the crowds showed up.

The Industrial Gallery - usually I keep forgetting to go this way.

But then I started in reverse order than usual (Great Charles Street entrance to Chamberlain Square entrance / exit).

Been wanting to take these for a while.

Sure I saw them 3 years ago near the Gas Hall entrance.

The Soho House Sphinxes.

I believe that there are plans to move them back to Soho House, so wanted to get them in the Museum & Art Gallery before they move them.

Made of Carved Portland Stone. Supplied by Edward Gray Saunders in 1795.

Originally they were either side of "Sphinx Walk" in the landscaped garden created at Soho House.

They were up for auction in 2001, and the Birmingham Museum managed to secure a licence to purchase them due to their national importance.

The sphinx on the right.


The Industrial Gallery is all in exposed ironwork: seven aisled bays with columns in two tiers, semicircular arcades and cross-arches in the aisles, larger semicircular trusses supporting the roof, all of them exposed I-beams with the rivets prominent. Like a classical version of the Oxford Museum; but the immediate inspiration must be J.H. Chamberlain's Board Schools. Huge pendant gas burners. T-plan staircase of 1893, with a different design of railings.

From Pevsner Architectural Guides: Birmingham by Andy Foster

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery - Industrial Gallery - The Soho House Sphinxes

Image by ell brown
Now that I know that you can take photos inside the Birmingham Musuem & Art Gallery, thought I'd go along and take what I wanted (not the paintings).

This is in the part of the museum near Great Charles Street Queensway.

On Friday it opened at 10:30am and I got here just in time before the crowds showed up.

The Industrial Gallery - usually I keep forgetting to go this way.

But then I started in reverse order than usual (Great Charles Street entrance to Chamberlain Square entrance / exit).

Been wanting to take these for a while.

Sure I saw them 3 years ago near the Gas Hall entrance.

The Soho House Sphinxes.

I believe that there are plans to move them back to Soho House, so wanted to get them in the Museum & Art Gallery before they move them.

Made of Carved Portland Stone. Supplied by Edward Gray Saunders in 1795.

Originally they were either side of "Sphinx Walk" in the landscaped garden created at Soho House.

They were up for auction in 2001, and the Birmingham Museum managed to secure a licence to purchase them due to their national importance.

The spinx on the left.


The Industrial Gallery is all in exposed ironwork: seven aisled bays with columns in two tiers, semicircular arcades and cross-arches in the aisles, larger semicircular trusses supporting the roof, all of them exposed I-beams with the rivets prominent. Like a classical version of the Oxford Museum; but the immediate inspiration must be J.H. Chamberlain's Board Schools. Huge pendant gas burners. T-plan staircase of 1893, with a different design of railings.

From Pevsner Architectural Guides: Birmingham by Andy Foster

The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art visits the South Carolina State Library

Some cool picture collages images:

The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art visits the South Carolina State Library

Image by South Carolina State Library
Rosemary Agoglia, Curator of Education for the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art speaks at the South Carolina State Library


Picture Book Art Comes to South Carolina

COLUMBIA, S.C. – On February 8-10, over 150 librarians, educators, and graduate students attended three South Carolina State Library sponsored workshops presented by Rosemary Agoglia of the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. Attendees learned about visually engaging young readers and the importance of inspiring children to read.

Agoglia presented sessions, The Whole Book Approach and Picturing Stories. The Whole Book Approach supports critical engagement with the picture book as an art form, places emphasis on reading with children rather than reading to children, and engages the group in a collaborative experience. In Picturing Stories, attendees were introduced to various visual literacy principles and used Carle’s exhibitions to explore approaches to “reading pictures” and apply this information to create a visual story using cut-paper collage.

The sessions received rave reviews: “This workshop opened a whole new world involving picture books for me. I’ve always thought of art as being an on-going visual conversation … now I know pictures are the introduction to that conversation.”

“Picture books are E for Everyone, not E for Easy. In our country, there are few cultural opportunities for visual literacy. This is something I do already and now I know the WHYS behind it.”

“I truly enjoyed myself—a reminder of what little art miracles picture books are.”

The mission of The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art is to inspire, especially in children and their families, an appreciation for and an understanding of the art of the picture book. In fulfilling that mission, the Museum aspires to build bridges to an appreciation of art of every kind and to provide an enriching, dynamic, and supportive context for the development of literacy. The Museum delivers this mission by collecting, presenting and celebrating the art of the picture book from around the world and by providing interactive experiences and programs that are engaging and educational.

For more information about the Museum, please visit www.carlemuseum.org. For more information about the State Library’s continuing education offerings, please contact Denise Lyons, Director of Library Development Services at dlyons@statelibrary.sc.gov or 803-734-6061.

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About the S.C. State Library
The South Carolina State Library is the primary administrator of federal and state support for the state’s libraries. The Library is a national model for innovation, collaboration, leadership and effectiveness. The Library’s mission is to optimize South Carolina’s investment in library and information services. In 1969, as the result of action by the General Assembly, the State Library Board was redesignated as the South Carolina State Library and assumed responsibility for public library development, library service for state institutions, service for the blind and physically handicapped, and library service to state government agencies. Headquartered in Columbia, S.C., the Library is funded by the state of South Carolina, by the federal government through the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and other sources. For more information, visit www.statelibrary.sc.gov or call 803-734-8666.

Pictures within Pictures

Image by rakugo
One of those photos composed of lots of tiny photos. Found it in Chinatown London

"Beautiful Beasts" Exhibit at the Sam Noble Museum

A few nice image gallery images I found:

"Beautiful Beasts" Exhibit at the Sam Noble Museum

Image by Thomas Shahan
(Image Courtesy SNOMNH)

The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History and I recently organized an exhibit called "Beautiful Beasts: The Unseen life of Oklahoma Spiders and Insects" which features several large-scale prints of my macrophotographs. The exhibit layout and printing turned out fantastic and I am immensely proud of everyone who helped put it together.

The museum is located in Norman, Oklahoma and the exhibit runs until September 8th, 2013. Also worth noting - my girlfriend, Kathleen Neeley did several illustrations (many of salticids!) for the didactic panels in this exhibit - more information on her illustration/artwork can be found here: www.kinkprints.com

The exhibit is definitely worth visiting if just for the giant inflatable Phidippus mystaceus!

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In other big news: I will be once again co-instructing Bugshot, a macro-photography workshop with Alex Wild, John Abbott, and Piotr Naskrecki - this time in BELIZE! More information can be found here and here.

Exposición Porno Tapados de Paloma Blanco en Duduá

Image by Alícia
Enero 2009 - Exposición Porno Tapados de Paloma Blanco en Duduá:

Paloma Blanco pinta sobre imágenes de revistas pornográficas cambiando las situaciones sexuales por otras escenas cotidianas como cocinar, comer, ver la tele, cantar, bailar, leer, hacer deporte, etc. Pero conservando las mismas caras de éxtasis de las fotografías originales y los mismos textos eróticos que las acompañaban.

En el 2006 la editorial vasca Belleza Infinita ( www.bellezainfinita.org ) publicó un libro con toda la obra utilizando el mismo formato, papel y encuadernación que las revistas pornográficas.

En esta exposición se podrán ver obras del libro y obra nueva inédita.

Inaiguración el viernes 9 de enero a las 20h en Duduá c/Rosic 6 Barcelona ( www.duduadudua.com , duduadudua.blogspot.com ).

+ info: www.bellezainfinita.org/publicaciones_13.html

Expo porno tapados en facebook.

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January 2009 - Porno Tapados by Paloma Blanco at Duduá.

The artist Paloma Blanco has painted over images from pornografic magazines, changing the sexual situations for other every day scenes such as cooking, eating, watching TV, singing, dancing, doing sports, etc. The artwork was published by Belleza Infinita ( www.bellezainfinita.org ) in 2006 and now is showing old and new pieces at Duduá (c/Rosic 6 Barcelona, Spain www.duduadudua.com , duduadudua.blogspot.com)

Opening 9th January starting at 8pm.

+ info: www.bellezainfinita.org/publicaciones_13.html

And Sew to Bed poster

Image by craftivist collective
image used for advertising and recruiting for the event