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.
For one day only, residents of Bristol were offered just 360 'tickets to slide' (out of nearly 100,000 applicants) down a main city street at over 10 miles an hour, surrounded by thousands of ...
Like a mirage on the horizon, the structure seems to shimmer into and out of existence, playing tricks on the eye with a combination of see-through portals and reflective ...
Sometimes, a reclaimed piece of junk is all it takes to make a bus stop, bike rack, subway station or virtually any other urban setting more comfortable and fun. The Rotten Apple project consists ...
In a remarkable 24-hour collaboration, a series of artists banded together to build a replica of the infamous house from the Wizard of OZ - that ill-fated structure that carried Dorothy Gale so ...
Even when you can observe it fly by from outside, seemingly above the fray, experiencing rush hour traffic may not be as stress-free as you might imagine it would. But you can see and hear for ...
If city officials won't do their part to make public spaces more fun, efficient, useful, comfortable and creative, citizens will take matters into their own hands. DIY urbanism, or 'hacktivism,' ...
The childhood home of artist Ian Strange has literally landed right in front of the Art Gallery of South Australia as if it were picked up by a tornado and plunked there, Wizard of Oz style. The ...
Mirrors typically represent a way of facing reality, but depending on where they're placed, they can bend it to the point of surreality instead. Take, for example, this invisible fence, a ...
Giant faces measuring 25 feet in height emerge in three dimensions from an 'architectural Mount Rushmore' at the entrance of Sochi's Olympic Park. 'MegaFaces' is an interactive installation by ...
What will become of all that humans have created when we're no longer on the planet to preserve it? This project by artist Evan Holm is both a nod to the grief that the mere thought of losing so ...
