Object Notes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Geoff Winningham's photographic essays record daily street life and ritual.

"There exists no self-portrait by me. I am not interested in a specific personal appearance as a 'subject for a picture,' but rather am I interested in other individuals, above all women."—Gustav Klimt

Centered in this hypnotic assemblage of scenes, an elegant diner blindly stares forward as she is bitten by a man. To the left an aged tramp leans towards the lady. On the right, the diner's fellow guests become entwined with ghostlike personages in terrifying encounters. These apparitions form a mass of dark fog comprised of anonymous faces.

The plump, furry body of Caliban sits on a sea shore. His wide curious glance upward and unstable perch suggest a distracted pause in motion. Caliban is a principle antagonist in Shakespeare's The Tempest. He is a beastly, lonesome native of a deserted island suddenly occupied by a pompous, exiled duke.