I adore these pieces from Beautiful Evidence, an exhibition by Thomas Allen inspired by his 8-year old daughter’s scientific wonder. It will be appearing at the Foley Gallery in NYC from September 9 - October 12. 

Chihuly Garden and Glass is an exhibition that opened at the Seattle Center on May 21st that provides a look at the inspiration and influences that inform the career of glass artist Dale Chihuly.

When gravity is too conventional for your architectural taste, Tomás Saraceno is your man. His defiantly outside-the-box project Cloud Cities is currently on exhibit at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin through January 15, 2012.

About the exhibit:

Tomás Saraceno’s installations shatter traditional concepts relating to place, time, gravity and traditional ideas as to what constitutes architecture. His works are utopian and invite the viewer to play a part in their impact on a particular space, as they reach up to the sky and down to the ground. The artist creates gardens that hang in the air and allow visitors to float in space, fulfilling a dream shared by all humankind. Saraceno draws inspiration from soap bubbles and the incredible strength and flexibility of spider webs.

The exhibition in the Hamburger Bahnhof will for the first time see approx. 20 of his balloon models go on show at one time. The exhibition will give visitors the chance to see for themselves how the hanging settlements interact with each other and the space, not merely by observing them from afar, but by actually entering them.

These are just a few of the images you’ll see at the new exhibit The Evolving Universe on display through July 7, 2013 at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. 

I’ve posted something about Canstruction before, but it seems like a great time to mention them again with the holidays approaching. Canstruction is a fantastic organization that puts together food drives with a real artistic flair. Each of these sculptures is made from cans to demonstrate how each can of donated food can be a building block to something great and to prove that every act of kindness can make a difference. After every public exhibition, these sculptures built by local architects and engineers are then donated to the local food shelter for distribution. Look for these exhibits happening soon in New York, Houston, Austin, and many other cities.

Carston Höller is part artist, part scientist, part trickster:

Mr. Höller’s works also set out to induce a general kind of madness: a troubling, anti-Enlightenment awareness that despite the certainties won by science over the past three or four hundred years, human beings still know relatively little about the world around them and have no good reason even to trust their senses. While such a state may seem disturbing, Mr. Höller views it instead as “truly productive,” an existential means of throwing off the bonds of determinism and treating human experience, if only for a little while, as a kind of artwork to be shaped and played with.

“What I’m doing is certainly not science, but maybe it’s not art, either; it’s something in between, a third thing,” said Mr. Höller…

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