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Category: Installation & Sound

Art on the wall is one thing, but installations engage us with texture, light, color and sound, surrounding us and begging for interaction. They challenge conventions of the art world as well as the context of art itself, as these uncanny and unique projects illustrate in vivid three-dimensional form.

Across the Verse: Over 100,000 Characters Create “Universe of Words”

Fields of floating paper hiraganas hang to create colorful screens and passageways in this spectacular work of installation art. Designed by Emmanuelle Moureaux, it is part of a larger 100 ...

120,000 Fabric Streamers Flutter Above the Former Berlin Wall in Germany

In Berlin, spanning the 450-foot length of the Brandenburg Gate where the former Wall divided the city, a kinetic installation ripples in the wind, bearing hand-written messages from city ...

VIGIL: Jenny Holzer’s Statements on Gun Violence Loom Large at Rockefeller Center

Artist Jenny Holzer is known for making public statements that can’t be ignored, and her latest project brings stark messages about gun violence to the facades of New York City’s Rockefeller ...

Leafy Landscapes: Artist Reshapes Autumn Leaves into Mazes, Circles & Suns

Famously beautiful ginkgo trees provide the raw materials for this falling leaf artist, which are carefully raked to create site-specific, all-natural art on the campus of Sacramento State ...

Megaliths in the Bath House Ruins: New Digital Illusions by TeamLab

In Japan, digital megaliths emerge from the floor of an abandoned bath house, coming alive with animated flowers and water in a beautiful mash-up of light art, projections and abandoned places. ...

Car Parklet: Bold Intervention Takes Over Occupied Parking Spaces

Artist Benedetto Bufalino has never shied away from the wild, surreal and unexpected; previously, he has transformed abandoned cars into pizza ovens, phone booths into aquariums, concrete trucks ...

Secret of the Great Pyramid: A New Optical Illusion at the Louvre by JR

For a few precious hours outside the Louvre, the ground around the iconic Pyramid appeared to be in the process of excavation, revealing a hidden portion of the structure. Rendered on paper in ...

Mirage: Mirrored House Reflects Snow-Covered Landscape in Switzerland

Mirrored inside and out, a new installation set in a snowy valley in Switzerland will never look exactly the same twice. Created as part of this year’s alpine arts festival Elevation 1049 by ...

Reading the Road: River of 11,000 Glowing Books Flows Down City Street

Thousands of books spanned from sidewalk to sidewalk in Ann Arbor's Literature vs Traffic installation, creating a space for quiet reflection on the value of pedestrian-friendly public spaces ...

Big Data Art: Printed Visualizations Highlight Daunting Tech “Terms of Service”

Everyone knows that actually reading a "terms of service" agreement is rarely (if ever) done by consumers using large digital platforms, but there is something powerful about seeing just how ...

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