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Canaries playing pianos: an incredible installation by Robert Gligorov

Posted on 20 November 2011 by

Dollar Note is an incredible installation by Robert Gligorov, which features a bird cage full of canaries, mounted on two vertical pianos positioned back to back. As the canaries fly from perch to perch, their weight on each post strikes … Continue reading →

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Jane Howarth’s beautiful bird guts and a rant about lousy artist statements

Posted on 27 September 2011 by

I recently came across this arresting image of a taxidermied seagull with luxurious pearl entrails spilling out of its split carcass. It was repinned on a certain nameless photo sharing site with no credit or links to the artist (a … Continue reading →

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Birds in little sweaters: Annette Messager’s “Le Repos des Pensionnaires”

Posted on 1 August 2011 by

I adore this 1971-72 work by Annette Messager, Les Repos des Pensionnaires (roughly translated to “Boarders at Rest”). In this work Messager clothed dozens of taxidermied sparrows in tiny knitted garments, then carefully laid them out in natural-history-museum-style display cabinets. … Continue reading →

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