‘Blank Books’ Project is Rebuilding Burned Library in Baghdad
A lone artist is on a mission to restore some of the 70,000 books from the College of Fine Arts at the University of Baghdad that were reduced to ash during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. ...
Tag: installation
Street Smokers: Cabin Sits & Steams Over NYC Manhole Covers
This mobile art installation turns the most congested New York City intersections into an unlikely context for a most rural-looking little cottage, the illusion completed thanks to steam rising ...
Potential Greenery: Topsoil & Time Shape ‘Empty Lot’ Artwork
A recently-completed, six-month art installation in the Tate Modern imported soil from parks all around London, arraying them in the museum's Turbine hall to show what weeds, grasses and ferns ...
Using Bullet Holes in Beirut’s Brutalist ‘Egg’ as Camera Obscuras
An abandoned concrete building in the heart of Beirut, Lebanon (known as The Egg) has been everything from a movie theater to a bomb shelter to a water tank, but this intervention would fill the ...
14,000 Refugee Life Jackets Wrap Berlin Konzerthaus Entrance
In an effort to raise awareness about the growing refugee crisis, Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has wrapped six giant entry columns to a landmark concert hall in central Berlin with ...
Cyberpunk Sunset: Artificial Sun Lights Up Warsaw Skyscraper
The developers behind a new tower rising in downtown Warsaw, Poland, have added a sunny surprise to the side of the building, aiming to brighten the moods of citizens during dark and cold months ...
Night House: Artist Cloaks Suburban Home Facade in Starry Skies
House painting is such time-consuming and meticulous work just to get a single color on a facade; perhaps next time you could clad your home in printed image of the night sky ...
Urban Ant Farm: Colony Encouraged to Hack City of Glass & Sand
In this Urban Ant City installation, hundreds of Spanish ants were set loose in a scale model of Rotterdam, allowed to navigate the existing street and carve their own paths and ...
Audiovisual Trikes: Portable Projections Animate City Streets
Lighting up streets and sidewalks of Rio de Janeiro, these mobile animation units utilize the movement of tricycles and available city surfaces to create amazing and interactive works of ...
Fragile Cloud: 100,000 Illuminated Balloons Fill Indoor Market
Pulsing with light and life, this incredible art installation provides Covent Garden, a glass-topped marketplace, with a kind of artificial interior skyscape. Created for the London Design ...
