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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 ...

Hamlet Writ Large: 100 Huge Fiberglass Skulls Haunt Melbourne Museum

A curious curatorial decision marked the inaugural National Gallery of Victoria Triennel, featuring 100 artists from 32 countries, including an installation of 100 massive skulls (note: ...

Buttsy: Banksy-Style Street Artist Crafts Cigarette Butt-Based Assemblages

Working to raise awareness of litter, Buttsy builds sculptural collages out of found objects, with a strong emphasis on some of the most toxic offenders: cigarette butts. Like Banksy, he works ...

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 ...

Inflatable Interventions: Soft Spikes Bring Roofless Ruins Back to Life

A series of architectural installations in Scotland contrast sharply with the centuries-old stone architecture and natural landscapes, featuring spiky white inflatables filling in aged cracks and ...

Sea Monsters: Massive Crocheted Sea Urchins Float Over Singapore

Mutant sea urchins seem to have evolved into monstrous, buoyant creatures capable of rising above the surface of the sea, glowing softly against the skyline in Singapore. Made from crocheted lace, ...

Eyebombing Bulgaria: Artist Adds Googly Eyes to Bollards, Bins & Pipes

As public art interventions go, googly-eye additions to urban objects and surfaces are pretty simple to implement, effectively animating their surroundings without too much work (or risk of ...

Aromatic Art: Empty NYC Trash Bins Turned into Beautiful Floral Bouquets

Sprouting up alongside the streets of New York City, garbage cans packed with colorful flowers are turning repelled waste receptacles into attractive centers of attention for garbage-weary ...

Helping Hands: “Support” Sculpture Braces Venetian Architecture From Below

Historic architecture meets modern art on the canals of Venice, where a pair of gigantic hands emerge from the depths to lend support above the waterline. Designed by Lorenzo Quinn, ...

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