Container with Lid (mid-/late 19th century), Northern Nguni, possibly from Zulu Swaziland or KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. In the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Will Oliver
A visitor looks out over the financial center of London from the Leadenhall Building, one of the City’s newest skyscrapers, by Will Oliver.
Chelsea Arts Club
On March 12, 1919, the Chelsea Arts Club held a costume party, called a Dazzle Ball, at Royal Albert Hall in London. It was inspired by the abstract geometric shapes on camouflaged ships in World War I , a method that was first employed by the British, who called it “dazzle painting” or dazzle camouflage. When the Americans adopted a comparable method, they referred to it by other names, among them “baffle painting,” “jazz painting,” and (rarely) “razzle dazzle.”
Fred Wilson
Fred Wilson, ‘Guarded View’ (1991)
Four mannequins with museum guard uniforms.