The poem begins… A Ghost in the shell, >dancing the procedural revolution<. You know how every child puts a blanket over their head and the world instantly turns into magic? It’s the first game my babies learned to play. Then they learned to play chase while running around with blankets or buckets on their heads. Blind chase, running into doors …
During my trip to Atlanta, I took my littles to the High Museum of Art. A beautiful museum that I would visit for the architecture, courtyard, and atrium alone. In the lower galleries, there is an exhibition of collages by Eric Carle, a prolific illustrator who is best know for writing The Very Hungry Caterpillar. His first book, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What …
I stopped by Kelly Kristin Jones’ solo exhibition to see the artwork she made at construction sites in Atlanta. If you are a caregiver or parent of truck-crazy preschoolers, Kelly Kristin Jones’ Gray Space exhibition has a moment for you. Kelly Kristin Jones won the 2015-2016 Emerging Artist Award from the Swan Coach House Gallery in Atlanta. She is an Atlanta-based artist with an MFA …
At the Gagosian Gallery in London through the end of May, Jenny Saville is showing new artworks in a solo exhibition called Erota. In a recent article about this exhibition, Saville tells the Guardian that “It was having children that changed her work.” That’s not a statement you hear very often from an artist, especially not publicly. I would …
Theo Jensen’s YouTube playlist is just what we need after a busy weekend. This summer the Exploratorium will show the first North American exhibition of Strandbeests by Theo Jansen. The music in many of his videos and the rhythm of his sculptures sets the tone for a relaxing moment and checks off our STEM lesson for the day (which we don’t really …
In an interview, Oliver Jeffers explains that when he started making picture books, he started asking questions instead of telling stories. His children’s book “The Day the Crayons Came Home” has been on the NY Times Bestseller list for 30 weeks and counting. Topped by his book “The Day the Crayons Quit,” which has hit the list for …
Counting art. The art of counting. Tatsuo Miyajima’s “Time Waterfall” was up for five days in Hong Kong during the recent edition of Art Basel. Jim Campbell and Cao Fei have also made light installations for the same building. This crossed my feed soon after I posted yesterday about counting in art museums. My full list of art books on counting …
What do we do in art museums with a preschooler? A lot of counting. We count monkeys, mirrors, animals, hats, etc. It’s surprisingly fun. The monkeys in the video above are part of an installation by Hew Locke. Below are a few more examples of his work, including public art in a field, a church, …
My parenting vocabulary is thick with cues, commands, or consequences related to listening. How many times a day do I ask my preschoolers, “Are you listening?” But Christine Sun Kim’s artwork makes not hearing beautiful. In her most recent installation, “Game of Skill 2.0,” at PS1 in New York, the audience has to walk along the path to power a console that is …
For one week Andrew Raffo Dewar moved his studio into the Ferguson Gallery inside the student center at the University of Alabama (home to 36,000 students). Every day Dewar created a new installation. At the same time, he invited a guest artist to share the space and also make a new artwork. The doors were open, …