BEAUTY: Sculpture and Installation--Ron Mueck

Known for his extremely realistic sculptures of human figures, scaled either unusually small or unusually large, artist Ron Mueck has created his largest and possibly most engrossing piece yet. Called Mass, the collection of 100 gigantic human skulls takes up a large room at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia. Mass is on display through April 18, 2018.

https://www.facebook.com/Ron-Mueck-22193729909/

The proximity of the skulls to the classical paintings reminds me of Holbein's painting The Ambassadors, on view at the National Gallery in London. This Tudor-era painting shows a skull, rendered in anamorphic perspective on top of a double portrait and allegorical still life; one must approach the painting closely from high on the right side, or low on the left side, to see the form as an accurate rendering of a human skull.

"Ode 2 Summa" by Jamil Zacharia

Lazy, trippy, lightly psychedelic, hazy..."Ode 2 Summa" by Australian musician Jamil Zacharia.

I have yet to find a good "summer song." Maybe this one is it?
"In the summer, we fly high..."

https://www.facebook.com/jamilzacharia

Holiday Cookies by Nectar and Stone

Located in Melbourne, Australia, Nectar and Stone is a fantastic bakery/confectioner run by Caroline Khoo. I am loving her "abstract" holiday cookies... look at that incredible icing, looking like modern art or agate...

http://nectarandstonemelbourne.com/

"Heartful (Burial Reprise)" by Wintercoats

Tender, compassionate, with a cosmic sense of agape, listen to "Heartful (Burial Reprise)" by Wintercoats (previously here), the nom de musique of Australian artist James Wallace.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Wintercoats/120050614689124
http://wintercoatsmusic.tumblr.com/

BEAUTY: Installation--luzinterruptus

I have posted about the light installation work of the Spanish art collective luzinterruptus before, here and here, but here is their most recent site specific installation, entitled Literature vs. Traffic, at the Light In Winter festival in Melbourne a few months ago. Over ten thousand books were lit from behind their pages and scattered like a river through a public space and into a lane of traffic on a busy street.

http://www.luzinterruptus.com/