2007.43.7, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, suite of 82 prints, 1984-1986
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In the Equilibres series Peter Fischli and David Weiss cast everyday objects as players in a succession of elaborate, dynamic, and sometimes humorous scenes. Each object, many on the verge of collapse, is depicted in a fleeting moment of precarious balance.
2007.43.6, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, suite of 82 prints, 1984-1986
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In the Equilibres series Peter Fischli and David Weiss cast everyday objects as players in a succession of elaborate, dynamic, and sometimes humorous scenes. Each object, many on the verge of collapse, is depicted in a fleeting moment of precarious balance.
2007.43.5, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, suite of 82 prints, 1984-1986
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In the Equilibres series Peter Fischli and David Weiss cast everyday objects as players in a succession of elaborate, dynamic, and sometimes humorous scenes. Each object, many on the verge of collapse, is depicted in a fleeting moment of precarious balance.
2007.43.4, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, suite of 82 prints, 1984-1986
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In the Equilibres series Peter Fischli and David Weiss cast everyday objects as players in a succession of elaborate, dynamic, and sometimes humorous scenes. Each object, many on the verge of collapse, is depicted in a fleeting moment of precarious balance.
2007.43.3, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, suite of 82 prints, 1984-1986
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In the Equilibres series Peter Fischli and David Weiss cast everyday objects as players in a succession of elaborate, dynamic, and sometimes humorous scenes. Each object, many on the verge of collapse, is depicted in a fleeting moment of precarious balance.
2007.43.2, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, suite of 82 prints, 1984-1986
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In the Equilibres series Peter Fischli and David Weiss cast everyday objects as players in a succession of elaborate, dynamic, and sometimes humorous scenes. Each object, many on the verge of collapse, is depicted in a fleeting moment of precarious balance.
2009.28, Nigel Cooke, Thinker's Retreat, 2008
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In this impressively scaled and composed painting, Nigel Cooke presents a fantasy-laden tableau of a broken-down, modernist-looking dystopian architecture that houses what may be the last of the thinkers referenced in the title.
2009.27.a-k, David Altmejd, The Eye, 2008, wood, mirror
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The Eye was inspired by the 2005 John Adams opera Doctor Atomic, which tells the story of the first atomic bomb test, and was created in conjunction with the show's premier at the Metropolitan Opera.
2010.21, Edward Ruscha, On the Road, 2009
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Trained as a commercial artist and sign designer, Ed Ruscha developed an artistic practice that has been marked by his incorporation of typography, serial imagery, and graphic simplicity.
2009.20.a-b, Tacita Dean, "Michael Hamburger," 2007, 16mm color film, 28 minutes
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Michael Hamburger profiles the poet and translator of the same name who meets writer W.G. Sebald in a chapter of his book, The Rings of Saturn.