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Ten objects that will amaze you

The visitor is provided with a list of buttons and no explanations. He is to do his own exploring. Each button releases a set of objects, each moving according to its own set of rules, that can, when a click is held, leave behind colored trails or make colored marks of a different sort. Mildy amusing, maybe more so if you care for abstract expressionism, which is the genre one tends to end up working in with this tool kit, almost inevitably.

The Chinese divide the subjects of painting into four principal classes, as follows: Landscape. Man and Objects. Flowers and Birds. Plants and Insects.

Where our painters have chosen wood or canvas as a ground, the Chinese have employed silk or paper. While our art recognizes that drawing itself, quite apart from painting, is a sufficient objective, drawing and painting have always been closely intermingled in the Far East.

Internationally acclaimed artist Subodh Gupta, who has been working with utensil installations, now explores connections of outer space and the cosmos in general, with that of the inner soul. Check out his philosophical bent and tell us what you make of it…

Public art projects are manned with an intention of eliciting some cultural feedback and significant finsings in the ethos of a city and its peple. Is this truly accomplished? Check out Baptiste Debombourg's work at Nantes and leaev us your views…