WILLIAM TURNER – Donati’s Comet  – watercolor on paper, 1858

JAMES ABBOTT MCNEILL WHISTLER nocturne in black and gold – the falling rocket circa 1872–77 oil on canvas 60.3 cm × 46.6 cm (23.7 in × 18.3 in) detroit institute of arts, detroit

12th august 2013 – A meteor streaked across the sky over the Mojave Desert in Landers, Calif., Monday. The Perseid meteor shower occurs every year in August when the Earth passes through debris and dust of the Swift-Tuttle comet. (Paul Buck/European Pressphoto Agency)

BILL HENSON lux et nox

Steve Harper – Self Asleep – 4.5 Hours – Potrero Hill, San Francisco, CA, 1984

Frank Hallam Day from the series “Alumascapes”

Benoit Paille – LSD 4

Giusy Calia, Corpo Celeste (2012)

James Cagney as Bottom and Anita Louise as Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935, dir. William Dieterle & Max Reinhardt )

SONJA VORDERMAIER – Streetlampforest a collection of 30 european streetlamps from different origins and times : Amsterdam, Berlin, Erfurt, Leipzig, Glasgow, Innsbruck, Milano, Hamburg, Prag, Cagnes-sur-mer (France), Sarajevo, Stuttgart, Belgrade, Lippstadt, Munich, Sofia, Trieste,Wolfsburg and Vienna. approx. 29 x 46 x 33 ft Mangfallpark Rosenheim, talking place at the horticultural show Rosenheim 2010

Charles Piazzi Smyth – The Great Comet of 1843, oil on canvas

Attention Seekers (2010-2011)

OLIAFUR ELIASSON – The weather project 2003 Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, UK, 2003 Selected publications: Olafur Eliasson: Minding the World. Edited by Olafur Eliasson and Gitte Ørskou. Denmark: ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, 2004. Olafur Eliasson: The Weather Project. Edited by Susan May. London: Tate Publishing, 2003.

Starry Night, Jean-François Millet, circa 1850-1865, Yale University Art Gallery

Brandon Thibodeaux – When morning comes

Fireflies at Ochanomizu Alternate Title: Ochanomizu hotaru Kobayashi Kiyochika (Japan, 1847-1915) Japan, circa 1880 Prints; woodcuts Color woodblock print