Green Carpet: Grass Trail Winds Through City Streets
It flows down the streets, up staircases and around corners - a green carpet, unfurled like a leaf, in a city of stone. This path of grass was installed in the picturesque French village of ...
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.
Street Seats for the People: Bold Guerrilla Furniture
Just try to locate a truly comfortable outdoor, public place to lounge around your city. Typically what you'll find are rigid benches that discourage people from lingering too long. Artist Oliver ...
Sounds of the Street: 13 Melodic Works of Musical Graffiti
From lively street festivals to the blaring stereos of passing cars, music is a mainstay in urban environments. This series of musical-themed street art, including graffiti by the likes of MTO ...
Disorienting Depth: Amazing Optical Illusions in Art Galleries
With some simple black markings that mimic the architecture of the gallery walls and windows, artist Regina Silveira makes visitors feel as if they're walking on air. In an installation called ...
Wild Child? Chaotic Museum Art Created by Kids
It's a parent's nightmare: a stark, modern living space so clean it practically sparkles that, after the intervention of 1,000 children, ends up looks like the world's largest finger painting. ...
Good Clean Fun: Interactive Games Tidy Urban Spaces
It doesn't matter where you go in the world: it seems like litter is always an unwelcome part of the scenery. The Swiss city of Lucerne decided to do something about their litter problem by ...
Flying People Zoom Through the Sky in Manhattan
If you saw human figures zooming through the sky - just flying on their own, with no parachutes or jet packs apparent - what would go through your mind? Would you think you were losing it? ...
Feeling the Earth Move: Urban Sidewalk Liquid Intervention
The normal urban environment is hard, angular and not often playful. We go about our business with the type of calculated indifference cultivated through years of city dwelling. But when that ...
Wood Rings Translated Into Moody Piano Music
If trees could play music, what would it sound like? That may seem like a silly question, but artist Bartholomäus Traubeck has found a way to answer it. The appropriately titled 'Years' project ...
Captured Live: ‘Trapped People’ Street Art Project
How would you react if you were walking down the street and happened to notice a pair of hands or a face pressed up against a ventilation grate on a wall? Getting over the initial shock of fear ...
