Simon Tait’s Mews – No.2 Here’s an interesting work of art to mews upon. It’s a sculpture by the eminent French artist Jean Tinguely and he called it Meta-Matic. It…
If you are in the UK this summer it is worth visiting San Francisco based artist Bernie Lubell’s ‘A Theory of Entanglement’ exhibition which opened at FACT, Liverpool, last month.…
Simon Tait’s Mews – No.1 This is the first in a series of posts from the journalist Simon Tait. He will be musing on all things mechanical once a month.…
We are delighted to announce the launch of Paul Spooner’s Virtual Exhibition today. Paul Spooner was 60 earlier this year, and we are celebrating with this new exhibition of pieces…
I was recently at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. The Amazing Machines Gallery has some of the best examples of basic mechanics that I have seen. You can experiment with…
Over the past 10 years we have worked regularly with Mike Petrich and Karen Wilkinson from the Exploratorium, in San Francisco. Mike and Karen have enormous energy, and a unique…
Springs Sprockets & Pulleys: The Mechanical Sculptures of Steve Gerberich, Waterloo Center, Iowa, USA until January 2009. We are great fans of Steve Gerberich and his work, so if you…
Something unforgettable is about to happen in Liverpool as a highlight of the Liverpool European Capital of Culture celebrations. Vast in scale and spectacular in execution, this breathtaking new commission…