Animals in art

Jeff Koons controversial sculpture of Michael Jackson & bubbles

Sculptures / 6 minutes of reading

Michael Jackson and Bubbles is a larger-than-life-sized gilded porcelain rendering of the late king of pop, Michael Jackson, and his chimpanzee pet, Bubbles. It’s based on a press photo of the two, and it is nearly indistinguishable from that image. Just like in the vacuum cleaner series, Jeff Koons reimagines the pop star as a […]

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Richard Jackson’s Bad Dog pees on prestigious Californian art collection

Sculptures / 3 minutes of reading

Richard Jackson’s Bad Dog was installed as part of the artist’s Orange County Museum of Art retrospective. The installation, titled simply as Bad Dog, was a giant 28-foot temporary sculpture of a black Labrador urinating yellow paint on the museum walls for his exhibition titled Ain’t Painting a Pain. It was an immediate hit. Crowds

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Yoshitomo Nara’s shining dog sculptures – What you should know

Sculptures / 6 minutes of reading

Yoshitomo Nara is a well-known and influential Japanese contemporary artist who lives and works in Nasushiobara. He grew up in post-Pacific War Japan. For some reason, throughout his work, he usually channels memory of his lonely childhood into his sculptures and paintings, evoking the viewers to revisit their own childhood memories. His projects and artwork

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Cai Guo Qiang’s stunning Watering Hole in Brisbane

Installations, Sculptures / 6 minutes of reading

What was it? Cai Guo-Qiang’s first solo exhibition in Australia was staged at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) from November 2013 to April 2014. Spanning the ground floor galleries of GOMA, this exhibition presented a large-scale installation by the Chinese artist. A centerpiece of the exhibition was a dramatic new commission, Heritage (2013), which

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Heartbreaking: The abandoned animals of Fukushima

Documentary photography, Photography / 2 minutes of reading

 A day after a tsunami damaged a nuclear reactor at Fukushima in Japan on 11 March 2011, inhabitants living within 20km of the power plant were forcibly evacuated. They had to leave their personal belongings as well as their household pets and farm animals behind. Three days later, there was a hydrogen explosion at the

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Jeff Koons controversial sculpture of Michael Jackson & bubbles

Richard Jackson’s Bad Dog pees on prestigious Californian art collection

Yoshitomo Nara’s shining dog sculptures – What you should know

Cai Guo Qiang’s stunning Watering Hole in Brisbane

Heartbreaking: The abandoned animals of Fukushima

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