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Superflat is the Japanese postmodern art movement. A duck with movable wing-like attachments which rotate with the wind. Yard art can encompass virtually anything one chooses to install outside the house, shed, etc. in a decorative manner. Some yard art can have a functional role as well. Yard art is a public display, a community style installation. Many items are handmade. Others are older objects transformed from their original use such as the rubber tire as planters. Wind driven objects are the most common. These are sometimes called whirligigs. The movement of these pieces create sound. Brennan, Maura. Paper Trail: 15th Anniversary Celebration of the Burt Chewnow Galleries. Exh. cat. Bridgeport: Housatonic Museum of Art, 2012. Thomas Eggerer’s vertiginous new paintings portray fragmented young bodies from impossible angles, strangely coalescing around signifiers of consumption and authority. Painting from an aerial and perpendicular view, Eggerer’s vantage point underlines the use of … Read the rest