There’s another great exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum (in addition to their well laid out permanent collection) following on the heels of their Annie Leibovitz exhibit. Devorah Sperber has created an interesting installation called “The Eye of the Artist”. She uses thousands of spools of thread to recreate well known masterpieces, such as DaVinci’s Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. Here is her version of van Eyck’s Man in a Red Turban:

Each work is about 10 feet tall and you’ll notice that it’s done upside down. That’s because she has set up small stands with glass orbs in front of each piece- when you view the work through the glass, it is right side up and the image becomes clearer to the naked eye: The amazing part is that it’s totally composed solely of spools of thread yet it remains true to the original. The exhibit runs through May 6th.