Remember the "very small object" guy and collecting we did as a community last summer? Our 2007 Children's Exhibit guest artist, Brian Collier, has reached a milestone.

Featured in the June/July 2008 issue of Art in America, Collier, environmentalist and biologist turned artist, is drawing national and international attention: first with Pika Alarm, an installation from Weather Report: Art and climate change at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in Colorado, and second with Teach the Starlings at Paragraph Gallery in Kansas City this year. The article, Global Warnings by Suzaan Boettger is part of the magazine's theme about the role art plays in politics. Art in America is one of the world's leading art magazines. Published since 1913, it is available monthly in Periodicals (the glassed-in reading room next to the Media and New Books area).

Collier's exhibit at the Sabatini Gallery, Very Small Objects: The Master Collection, can be revisited on the Library's Flickr page right here!

PS—can anyone identify the super-famous artist and work being parodied on the June/July cover (see image)? Hint: the Mulvane Art Museum at Washburn University owns one of the original prints and it was exhibited during our 2005 exhibit, Treasures of Topeka.

Image (c) Art in America, 2008.