The Art Of The Brick – Lego?

Nathan Sawaya is currently touring the United States with his “The Art of the Brick” exhibition. He just finished exhibiting at the Lancaster Museum of Art where record crowds came to see his work.

The director of the museum said “On opening day, we had to open the doors five hours early to accommodate the hundreds of guests waiting in line outside. In my 28 years in this business, I have never seen a response to a show like this before.”

The Art of the Brick has now opened at the Discovery Center Museum and will run through to September 3.

The unusual thing about the sculptures of Nathan Sawaya is that they are made entirely from LEGO bricks! The Art of the Brick exhibition has more than thirty works on display with almost one million pieces of lego used to make them.

I wonder how difficult it is to convince collectors that LEGO is of as much value as oils or marble to create art. I like his mosaic portraits here.

Most Popular Art Museums In The World

The Art Newspaper has released their annual list of the most popular art museums in the world, with the Louvre in Paris coming in first place with an estimated 8,300,000 visitors.

The most popular exhibition was at the Tokyo National Museum in Japan which attracted more than 10,000 people each day. It was more of a single painting than an exhibition, which makes the figure even more remarkable. Leonardo da Vinci’s painting “Annunciation” was loaned by the Uffizi gallery in Florence.

“For the fourth year running, the Tokyo National Museum tops the list. Tokyo routinely produces enormous visitor figures, thanks to a combination of vast exhibition spaces and a 35 million-strong conurbation. But “Leonardo” was even higher than 2005’s record-breaking attendance for “Hokusai” at the same museum, which averaged 9,436 a day.” Art Newspaper

Here’s the top 20 most popular art museums in the world compiled by Art Newspaper. The list below includes the number of visitors, name of the museum, and the city that the museum is located in.

8,300,000 – Louvre Paris
5,509,425 – Centre Pompidou Paris
5,191,840 – Tate Modern London
4,837,878 – British Museum London
4,547,353 – Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
4,518,413 – National Gallery of Art Washington
4,310,083 – Vatican Museums Vatican City
4,159,485 – National Gallery London
3,166,509 – Musée d’Orsay Paris
2,652,924 – Museo Nacional del Prado Madrid
2,650,551 – National Palace Museum Taipei
2,435,300 – Victoria and Albert Museum London
2,395,075 – State Hermitage Museum St Petersburg
2,232,475 – Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum Glasgow
2,219,554 – Museum of Modern Art New York
2,133,149 – Field Museum Chicago
1,772,255 – Tokyo National Museum Tokyo
1,674,607 – CaxiaForum Barcelona Barcelona
1,650,000 – Moscow Kremlin Museums Moscow
1,649,969 – Museum of Fine Arts Houston

WRG? Black History Month Skateboard

 

While Black History Month never fails to recognize important African-Americans like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Rosa Parks, WRG? (What’s Really Good) Magazine celebrates February with icons that get little notice from the historical society: skateboarders. Pop quiz: Late ’80s pioneer. Rode for Powell Skateboards. No? What about the #23 of skateboarding? Give up? WRG? and Series skateboards have come up with a special crossword puzzle deck that you can fill in, take out, and scratch up. Go over to the website and take a crack at the Black History Month project online. Video clips attached to the clues make it easier, but this puzzle ain’t for the Saturday New York Times crowd.

Via: JoshSpear