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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.

Plaza Play: 13 Artistic Installations Make Public Squares A Lot More Fun

An infusion of art revives a cold, gray public square like a healing draught, drawing people in and encouraging them to stay a while, interact with each other and see their city from a new point ...

Slide on Down! Double Helix Installation Zooms Visitors Through a Renaissance Palace

You’ve never experienced Italian Renaissance architecture quite like this. German artist Carsten Höller, known for his playful interactive installations, will be installing a pair of slides in ...

Photographic Memory: Artist Covers Family Home in Pics Prior to Demolition

To celebrate 70 years of family memories, artist Gary Sweeney plastered his family home in Manhattan Beach with old photographs, an installation that lasted until the building was ...

Architecture with a Twist: Installation Artist Knots Columns & Flips Facades

In his latest work dubbed Birth, Death and Midlife Crisis, artist Alex Chinneck is back at it again, exploring the limits of seemingly solid structures (and observer imaginations). This latest ...

Egalitarian Gallery: New York Curators Combat Elitism, Exhibit Everything

The art world tends to be exclusive by design, but a gallery founder and a curator in NYC decided to team up and do the most inclusive thing they could think of by offering to display any work ...

Psychedelic Waves: Step Into a Swirling Vortex Inside an Infinity Room

Create a visible ripple effect as you move within this dazzling interactive infinity room by Japanese collective teamLab, producing your own unique wave patterns influenced by your gestures, ...

Parked Bench: Yellow Lane Lines Morph into Improbable Urban Seating

Green space, installation art and public amenity are all distorted into something fresh and provocative with this strange creation, crashing together at the intersection of amusement and ...

Interloop: Vintage Wood Escalators Twisted into Works of Architectural Art

When famous buildings are demolished, like famous Louis Sullivan structures in Chicago, there's a scramble to collect all of the ornamental bits and pieces for preservation -- yet fewer people ...

Urban Birdhouses: Danish Designer Builds 3,500+ Homes for Avian Occupants

Some sit individually in trees while are clustered in sets, branching out like leaves on a building facade or hung like ivy off the sides of structures, but all of these diverse birdhouses share ...

Mies Makeover: Artists Cover Barcelona Pavilion’s Marble Walls with White

A minimalist icon by Mies van der Rohe is becoming even more minimal thanks to a series of vinyl screens installed over its ornate marble walls, making the full-size building look like a blown-up ...

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