Portable Cities: Suitcase Architecture Made from Clothing
What connection does a discarded sweater on a subway have with the city in which it's found? For Chinese artist Yin Xiuzhen, the used clothing of a city's inhabitants take shape as ...
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.
3G Geek Art Show: Ghostbusters, Goonies & Gremlins
Ghostbusters, Goonies and Gremlins: Is this the trifecta of geeky '80s awesomeness? Clearly, LA's appropriately named Gallery 1988 thinks so, as they've dedicated three weeks in September to ...
Camouflaged Human Canvas: Faux Body Art by Kim Joon
Jumbles of beheaded bodies, limbs entwined, torsos twisting, hands reaching out – in compositions that are both glaringly Asian-influenced and psychedelic – call to mind some orgiastic body ...
Ghost in the Machine: Uniquely Musical Cassette Tape Art
The relationship between art and the medium in which it is created isn't often as perfectly matched as it is with these cassette tape art pieces. Atlanta-based artist Erika Iris Simmons (better ...
Walk This Way: 99 Diverse ‘Walking Man’ Figures in Manhattan
All around the world, wherever traffic lights beckon cars to traverse intersections in an orderly fashion, one man keeps pedestrians safe. He is one of the most recognizable figures on the planet ...
Larger than Life: 10 Giant Portraits, Murals & Sculptures
Portrait artists all have their own ideas about what makes for a great portrait: something that glorifies the subject, something that shows it in harsh realistic detail, or something that ...
Hiding in Plain Sight: Even More Stealthy Urban Camouflage
With their stacks upon stacks of random objects like boxes, bottles and other goods, perhaps there’s nowhere better to experiment with urban camouflage than a big-box retail store like IKEA, ...
10 Pimped Out Pump Jacks Give The Nod To Urban Oil Art
Mechanical "nodding donkeys" have been grazing the surface of uninhabited oil fields for many decades but in urban settings they can look, well, crude. Making these horsehead pumps look ...
Big Screens, Big Fun: 2 Simply Silly Public Art Projects
Once we move from childhood to adulthood, playfulness seems to take a back seat to responsibility. Many of us lose that sense of wonder and fun that makes all of our daily activities seem ...
Vectorial Elevation Vancouver: Telerobotic Art Installation
As beautiful as a display of fireworks can be, they’re passive: viewers are just viewers, rarely having a hand in the actual design of the show. But a project going on right now in Vancouver ...
