I was passing through Liverpool Street station and this video advertising screen caught my attention. It seemed to aspire to art. Perhaps it wanted something bigger than it had been given.

Anish Kapoor’s work is often very stimulating and form-led. This one seems monolithic in scale. I think I may book the Eurostar.

Each year, the French Ministry for Culture and Communication invites a famous artist to throw up an installation in the Grand Palais, the stunning Beaux-Arts museum and exhibit space at the Champs-Élysées, in Paris. This year, Brit Anish Kapoor, of Chicago bean fame, was the chosen one, and he erected a set of giant, purple, rubber balls.

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I’m absolutely swooning for these wood block prints by artist Ray Morimura. His work has an amazing sense of balance between geometry, pattern, line and colour. There feels like there something hidden in each composition, whether tangible, or not.

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I love these portraits by artist Kerry James Marshall

Loving these paintings by Minoru Nomata and wishing they were real.

12:31 is the time that Joseph Paul Jernigan was executed. He was convicted of murder in 1981 and his sentence was carried out on 5 August 1993. Before his death he donated his body to medical science and subsequently his body was sectioned and photographed as part of the Visible Human Project.

The video above is a remarkable journey through the 1,871 slices of his body from head to toe.

Amazing as this animation is, this is not where the story ended. Artists Croix Gagnon and Frank Schott used the animation to create light paintings by photographing it (on a computer screen) with long exposures. The results are eerie, yet beautiful recreations of Jernigan’s cadaver ‘floating’ in space.

It’s not often I post about something straight away. My normal process is to put a pin in it. Come back to it. Think about it. And then may be post it some days later.

These sculptures by Anthony James caught my eye immediately though. I love the unnatural containment of these objects – Birch trees and the artist’s Ferrari 355 Spider, which he burnt out himself. Oh how me must love his art.

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These paintings flashed up on my radar today. I like them, for a number of reasons. The aesthetic fits me and I’m always interested in organic forms, but I think it’s the sense of unease which really attracts me. If it makes me feel uncomfortable, I generally like it.

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Just saw this great project that catalogues fruit and vegetables of the non-standard variety. You wouldn’t find these in your local supermarket, but maybe you should.

“Produce has become a highly designed, monotonous product. We have forgotten, and in many cases never experienced, the way fruits, roots, and vegetables can actually look (and taste). The Mutato-Project serves to document, preserve and promote these last remainders of agricultural diversity.”

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I think you might class the paintings of Tomás Sánchez as fantasy, which is not something I normally like – but I like this.