Tetiana Pfaifer on Instagram: "The Peacock Clock is one of the most famous masterpieces of decorative automaton art.. When activated, the peacock slowly opens its tail, the owl turns its head, the rooster crows — and time becomes a performance. The time is shown in a slot in the cap of the mushroom. Today this is the only large 18th-century automaton that has come down to use altered and in functioning condition. Created in London by James Cox in the 1770s and later acquired for Catherine the Gr

Transforming Roadside Wood into Masterpieces with Epoxy

@art on Instagram: "To mark the beginning of his collaboration with Hublot, Daniel Arsham unveiled ‘Light & Time,’ a monumental, site-specific sundial carved into the snow high above Zermatt, Switzerland. Measuring 20 meters in diameter and set against the backdrop of the Matterhorn, the work functions through the shadows cast by a quartz-crystal-shaped obelisk, transforming snow and light into a working instrument of timekeeping. Visible only from the summit via ski lift, the installation merge