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Abandonments in Bloom: Deserted Iranian Homes Reclaimed by Nature

Left in the hands of nature by residents fleeing Tehran, these ordinary houses have become backdrops for an extraordinary series of photographs by Gohar Dashti, born during the Islamic ...

Reading the Road: River of 11,000 Glowing Books Flows Down City Street

Thousands of books spanned from sidewalk to sidewalk in Ann Arbor's Literature vs Traffic installation, creating a space for quiet reflection on the value of pedestrian-friendly public spaces ...

Refugee Baggage: Suitcase Dioramas Show Dark Scenes from Countries Fled

The project of a Syrian-born artist and architect and an Iraqi-born author, this installation invites viewers to imagine what refugees leave behind when the pack up the few things they can carry ...

Subjective City: Massive Wall Map of NYC Assembled from Handwritten Directions

A few years back, artist Nobutaka Aozaki started asking directions from strangers on the streets of Manhattan, then collecting those maps (hand-drawn from memory) to assemble into a huge and ...

Hidden Depths: 20 Tentacles of Lurking Sea Creature Sprout from Warehouse

Any horror fan knows hinting at a larger evil with teaser visuals is a classic trick, like letting viewers imagine, for instance, what kind of hideous invader might be putting feelers out the ...

Peeled to Reveal: Condemned Building Neatly “Unzipped” Along its Facades

Cracked open like a coat (or pair of pants), the walls of this structure in England, have been opened up to expose its abandoned interior ahead of its scheduled demolition. "Open to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Animate Objects: Urban Artist Breathes Life into Everyday Street Scenes

Looking at everyday built environments with an eye toward artistic adaptation, Oakoak turns exhaust pipes into elephant trunks, wild shrubs into micro-farms and more. Pablo Picasso's ...

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