In France in 1975, screenwriter Dan O’Bannon was collaborating with Director Alejandro Jodorowsky on an adaptation of Frank Herbert‘s 1965 novel, Dune, when he met the artist HR Giger. Jodorowsky had been introduced to Giger’s work by Salvador Dali, and had brought him on to create designs for the film.
While the feature ultimately fell through, O’Bannon couldn’t get Giger’s drawings out of his head. The screenwriter recalled “ending up writing a script about a Giger monster,” which would eventually become the influential franchise Alien. Continue reading Eye On Design: HR Giger’s Necronom 2005 (Alien 3 Model)→
What if you could actually see what was going on inside someone’s head? Erwin Wurm offers his own wonderfully strange answer with It’s Not Me, It’s Not You (Mind Bubbles), a 2025 sculpture that was part of the artist’s Double Dream exhibit at Lehmann Maupin.
To me, the sculpture looks like a character from some surreal cartoon: A cloud head / body perched atop pair of extremely long, skinny legs that bend awkwardly beneath the enormous, amorphous form. The entire figure is rendered in a soft, dreamy pale blue right down to its little lace-up boots. Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Erwin Wurm, It’s Not Me, It’s Not You (Mind Bubbles)→
In the spring of 1911, Joaquin Sorolla visited the United States for a second exhibition tour organized by Archer Huntington. As he had done on his first tour in 1909, Sorolla used the opportunity to take on portrait commissions. Among the Americans seeking a portrait from Sorolla was the renowned designer Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848 — 1933), president of Tiffany Studios and son of the founder of Tiffany and Company. Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Louis Comfort Tiffany By Joaquin Sorolla Y Bastida→
These seven totemic forms entitled Sweet Charity (2026) represent the culmination of Carol Bove’s “collage sculptures,“ a body of work that has occupied a central place in her practice for the past decade. Conceived for this double-height gallery, the soaring sculptures entwine steel construction tubing with elongated shards of industrial steel plate.
When most people hear the name Fab 5 Freddy, they might first think of Blondie’s Debbie Harry giving him a shout-out in their song “Rapture.” Of course, as the original host of Yo! MTV Raps, Freddy helped introduce rap music to millions of viewers around the world. But long before that, Fred Brathwaite — a he was born —was an influential figure in New York City’s downtown art scene, moving effortlessly between graffiti culture, contemporary art, music, and film. His painting The Return of God to Africa (1984) is a vibrant reminder that his creative vision extends far beyond music. Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Fab 5 Freddy, The Return of God to Africa→
