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Whale of a Sculpture: Repurposing 5 Tons of Plastic Pollution Ocean Pollution

Standing nearly 40 feet tall, this giant arcing whale is composed entirely of plastic waste gathered from the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, carefully assembled in a canal of Bruges, ...

Guerrilla Artist Pulls a Banksy, Installs Own Art at Banksy Museum Exhibit

In the early 2000s, Banksy famously hung one of his own works at London's famous Tate Britain museum, and now, 15 years later, a Toronto artist has pulled off a similar guerrilla trick, this time ...

Found Art: Huge Exterior Wall Mural Uncovered in Dutch Museum Renovation

Originally painted in 1968 on the side of an Amsterdam museum building, this Keith Haring mural was covered in a subsequent renovation before recently being revealed once again to the ...

Between the Lines: 3D Graffiti Artist Layers Letters to Form Punchy Phrases

Warping classical fonts into rich mural art, Peter Preffington (or: Pref) uses three-dimensional complexity to draw the eye to deceptively simple messages. A veteran street artist, ...

Blades Of Allegory: 10 Artistic Painted Wind Turbines

Big fans of artistic expression should check out these creatively painted wind turbines whose cylindrical towers stay green even when they're multicolored. Modern wind turbines pose unique ...

Inflatable: Giant Air-filled Artworks Come to the Exploratorium (Sponsored)

Explore, play, and wonder at gigantic, fantastical, artworks at Inflatable — a new exhibition at the Exploratorium, opening on May 26, 2018. The renowned San Francisco museum is partnering with ...

New Banksy Gift Shop: Souvenirs from the Walled-Off Art Hotel in Palestine

Located just a few hundred meters from the checkpoint to Jerusalem and a mile from the centre of Bethlehem, the Walled-Off Hotel (a play on Waldorf) project features works of art and artistically ...

Stitches in Space: Giant-Sized Doilies Domesticate a Wild Array of Places

Spanning interiors, wrapping trees and adorning facades, these big bright red doilies are somehow both conventional and ominous, somewhere between knit holiday sweaters and huge spider ...

Blown-Out Pipes: Artist Expands Everyday Plastic Tubes to Create Vases

Plastic piping original mass-produced to carry water from place to place has found a likewise liquid-related second life in the form of flower-holding vessels, blown out like glass into fresh new ...

Rolling Out the Green Carpet: Grass Circle Transforms Madrid Public Square

Marking the 400th anniversary of the Plaza Mayor in Madrid, a grassy circle measuring over 35,000 square feet was rolled out to create seating space for over 100,000 visitors across a four-day ...

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