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Peter Köhler Show
Posted by Martin R on December 31, 2009 My brother-in-law Peter Köhler is not only a very nice guy, but also a successful artist. He regularly exhibits his work at Magnus Karlsson’s gallery, one of Stockholm’s most prestigious venues. Peter’s next show there is scheduled for 9 Jan. through 7 Feb. and is titled “Black Magic”. “A study visit to the Museum of…
Medieval Genius Sculptor Vaporised
Posted by Martin R on December 3, 2009 Names are one of the things that separate historical and archaeological thinking from each other. History is full of people of whom little is known beyond their names and perhaps a royal or ecclesiastical title, yet still they are considered to be historical personages. Meanwhile, a dead person found in a nameless prehistoric grave can…
5th Century Regional Brooch Design
Posted by Martin R on September 15, 2009 Here’s a piece of fragmentology. In the 19th century a brooch (inset) was found at Vistena in Allhelgona parish, Östergötland. It’s a copper-alloy piece decorated with embossed silver sheet panels in the Nydam style, approx. AD 375-450. In 2008 a member of my metal detector team found part of a similar brooch at Sättuna in…
Phobos-bound Tardigrades Portrayed
Posted by Martin R on August 30, 2009 Stacy L. Mason is an Aard regular and a talented artist. Check out his awesome interpretation of the Swedish tardigrades that are going to Phobos! In other news, I have issues with the lyrics of the Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas podcast‘s theme song, a fine ska tune by 7 Seconds of Love. I’m gonna flip out…
Office Boredom Art Video
Posted by Martin R on August 6, 2009 From Birmingham art students Tanya Mircheva and Mihaela Calin, a clip about office-job boredom.
Baroque Lion Mask from the Peerless Palace
Posted by Martin R on June 8, 2009 Kai and Anneli recently gave us a very welcome present: a cast of a lion mask from the Peerless Palace in Stockholm. North European Baroque is such a weird and lovely style. The wreck of the Vasa is a prime example, and there’s a lot of it on the facades of houses in the Old…
Pipe Smoking, Tango Listening Auteur
Posted by Martin R on March 23, 2009 We’ve all had the same realisation: sooner or later somebody just has to make a series of several thousand short films of themselves smoking various tobacco pipes and listening to tango music, and put them all on YouTube. Well, fret no more: it’s been done. And don’t tell me this isn’t an art project on…
Djurhamn Sword Artwork
Posted by Martin R on December 4, 2008 Here’s something neat. Annika and Bengtowe Angare are photographers and digital retouch artists (check out their site and hover your cursor over each picture!). They’ve photographed the early-16th century sword I found at Djurhamn in 2007 and stuck it point first into the find spot on a vintage map of Djurö! This post is timely…
Tåby Figurine
Posted by Martin R on November 11, 2008 Last Thursday I went to Norrköping and checked out the Town Museum‘s collection of prehistoric metalwork. Most of it is decontextualised, but I did manage to collect some useful data on the movements of my 1st Millennium aristocrats across Östergötland. Among the things I handled was, unexpectedly, the Tåby statuette. It’s a stray find from…
Royal Medals Copied
Posted by Martin R on November 3, 2008 A year ago I showed some pictures of particularly cool finds that Claes Pettersson and his team from Jönköping County Museum had made in 17th century urban layers near their offices. One of them was the above clay mould depicting King Gustavus II Adolphus. Claes believes that it may have been used to make candy.…
