Chimera

Have a weird Christmas with a bird-legged ornament

For a creepy Christmas, Conceptual artist Peter Eudenbach sculpted 100 of these pieces called “Chimera,” a sort of traditional Christmas ornament-with-legs. Eudenbach formed the globe itself from turquoise glass, attaching a set of cast pewter bird feet; the decoration is the perfect accessory for a darker holiday. Released through Artware and to be available online next month, each piece sells for $150, measures about 4″ …

Alexis Hyde

Our chat with the curator of a new online concept championing young creatives

Advertorial content: Pushing insistently at what a blog is and can do, the recently-launched The Smartest Thing She’s Ever Said is an interesting take on storytelling in the digital age. Teams of visual artists and writers collaborate to create a loose serialized narrative over the course of three weeks under the sharp eye of curator Alexis Hyde. Supported by Ann Taylor, the project is essentially …

Miller-Urey Bong, 2010

Bring your own combustible material to an installation recreating the origin of life

A scientific art installation involving high-powered lasers and combustive materials, Miller-Urey Bong is a BYOW (Bring Your Own Whatever) exhibition based on the 1952 Miller-Urey experiments that attempted to prove the genesis of life on Earth. “We really don’t know what the Earth was like three or four billion years ago,” the late scientist Stanley L. Miller said more than forty years later. “So there …