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.
When you look up a city on Google Maps, a little red icon shows you exactly where the center of that city is - and it even casts a shadow, making it seem as if it's a part of the cities itself. ...
Scaffolding is rarely attractive, but Google might just change that perception with a 450-foot mural by Brooklyn design studio Dark Igloo that wraps around its building in New York City. 'Chelsea ...
Watching the city go by from an elevated or even ground-level rail system can be relaxing, but the transition to an underground section is at best boring, at worst jarring. ...
The figures seem to float on air, hanging in unnatural positions, their limbs dangling. Made of a compacted growing medium, these sculptures by Mathilde Roussel are planted with grass seeds and ...
Light might just be the most captivating art medium of all, capturing our attention and transforming spaces in a way that paint can't. Some artists use it in combination with long-exposure ...
They hover, diaphanous, among their solid surroundings like ghosts of structures that have come and gone. These fabric installations by Korean artist Do Ho Suh transform the structures where ...
Nature lovers making their way through Seattle's Westlake Park or taking a leisurely stroll along the Burke-Gilman Trail are likely stopping, staring and scratching their heads at this very ...
What better way to immerse yourself in an artist's work than to walk into a space that has been altered in amazing and unexpected ways? Installation art transforms galleries and other spaces from ...
Hundreds of printed elastic strings come together to create strange and startlingly realistic portraits of human faces and limbs in this series by Hong Sung Chul. The South Korean artist creates ...
Jarringly out of place, a tiny, rustic cabin clings to the wall of an urban high-rise in the unlikely location of San Francisco, California. The cabin, which is fitted with a rocking chair and ...
