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Jeff Koons controversial sculpture of Michael Jackson & bubbles

Sculptures / 6 minutes of reading

Michael Jackson and Bubbles is a larger-than-life-sized gilded porcelain rendering of the late king of pop, Michael Jackson, and his chimpanzee pet, Bubbles. It’s based on a press photo of the two, and it is nearly indistinguishable from that image. Just like in the vacuum cleaner series, Jeff Koons reimagines the pop star as a […]

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When Thomas Struth visited Disneyland…

Photography / 2 minutes of reading

The collection of Thomas Struth: full of dynamic creativity, unseeingly authenticity. You’d definitely know it is inspired by a life beyond what our eyes can see. He made art from an angle where our minds depict an unimaginative reality correlated through the art of modern technology. The conceptualization was well thought out so that fantasies

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Who is Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama?

Installations / 7 minutes of reading

Ibrahim Mahama, not to be confused with the businessman Ibrahim Mahama, is a Ghanaian artist and author known for his monumental installations. He was born in the northern region of Ghana in the town of Tamale. Mahama is perhaps known for his peculiar artistic methods, including taking discarded items from his homeland Ghana and placing

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Lida Abdul’s What we have overlooked – This man vanishes in a lake

Performances, Video Art / 5 minutes of reading

Lida Abdul’s two-channel work entitled What we have overlooked (2011) was first presented at dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel. She is an Afghan video and performance artist born in 1973 in Kabul. Forced to flee Afghanistan following the Russian invasion and the war that followed, Abdul lived as a refugee in Germany and India before settling in

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Gelitin installed a pool on top of London museum

Architecture, Installations / 4 minutes of reading

In 2001 Austrian art collective Gelitin made a bold move on the 91st floor of the WTC in New York. The group of four removed a window and eventually pushed a wooden balcony through the hole. At the end of it, they stood on it while photos of this incident were taken from a helicopter.

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Conservative Stadtmuseum München opens up to Urban Art

Installations, Paintings, Performances, Photography / 1 minute of reading

Last month the City Museum of Munich, Germany, held an exhibition that featured artists from Europe, Asia, and Australia. They were connected by their confident artistic position, focusing on their artistic statement rather than creating easily accessible and understandable works. Galeria Autonomica The curators Christian Minke and Christoph Pankowski believe that now it’s more important

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Cai Guo Qiang’s stunning Watering Hole in Brisbane

Installations, Sculptures / 6 minutes of reading

What was it? Cai Guo-Qiang’s first solo exhibition in Australia was staged at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) from November 2013 to April 2014. Spanning the ground floor galleries of GOMA, this exhibition presented a large-scale installation by the Chinese artist. A centerpiece of the exhibition was a dramatic new commission, Heritage (2013), which

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Hyvinkää Art Museum shows Finland’s first homeless fair – Jani Leinonen & Riiko Sakkinen

Installations / 4 minutes of reading

The Homelessness Fair, curated by Finish artists Jani Leinonen and Riiko Sakkinen, introduced a whole new exhibition concept to the Finnish art scene. Exhibited at the Hyvinkää Art Museum, Leinonen and Sakkinen have invited different civic organizations that deal with homelessness, social institutions and other active parties in the field to take part in the

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Why are Sol LeWitt’s wall drawings so influential?

Murals, Paintings / 4 minutes of reading

1,350 Wall Drawings in four decades Over the course of his prolific and influential career, Sol LeWitt (1928–2007) produced approximately 1,350 wall drawings, comprising approximately 3,500 installations at more than 1,200 venues. Why did Sol LeWitt let others paint his ideas? Early in his career, Sol LeWitt began to have others help execute his wall

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Why did Michael Lin install a complete house on a roof in Shanghai?

Architecture, Installations / 4 minutes of reading

Model Home – A Proposition by Michael Lin was an exhibition of new conceptual work, made by Michael Lin. For the exhibition, he installed a temporary structure on top of the Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai, China. The exhibition has been created in collaboration with building workers, furniture makers and musicians, filmmakers, and urban studies

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Luciano Calderon’s first museum solo exhibition

Paintings / 1 minute of reading

On June 19, 2013, Ciudad Esperanza, Luciano Calderon’s first solo exhibition in a museum pre-opened at Museo de Arte Antonio Paredes Candia in El Alto, Bolivia. The exhibition is a continuation of his recent exhibition, El Choco, in which Calderon’s hometown of El Alto and the neighboring city La Paz played a central role. Ciudad

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Luciano Calderon & Public Delivery – El Choco exhibition

Paintings, Sculptures / 1 minute of reading

El Choco was a solo exhibition by the Swiss-Bolivian artist Luciano Calderon. He showed completely new works ranging from videos to sculptures and paintings. The exhibition took place in one of Bolivia’s most important non-commercial art spaces, Centro Cultural de España en La Paz (CCELP) located in La Paz. Video trailer Luciano Calderon - Exhibition

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Andreas Gursky from 1990 to present – His best photos

Architecture, Photography / 11 minutes of reading

Andreas Gursky, born in 1955 in Leipzig, Germany, is a renowned photographer who uses colorful, large-scale depictions of modern life. Living and working in Düsseldorf, Germany, he represents a revaluation of realism within contemporary photography through conceptual staging and digital image editing. The German photographer popularised photography focusing on day-to-day human activities in commerce, sports

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Public Delivery + Hendrik Beikirch: Mural in Germany

Murals, Paintings / 1 minute of reading

ECB Hendrik Beikirch in Friedberg, GermanyWatch this video on YouTube 4 min 12 sec About A couple of weeks ago, we organized the mural futurememories in Friedberg, Germany. It was painted by Hendrik Beikirch on the backside of an old and famous Jugendstil indoor swimming pool built in 1909 and featured in a tv report

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What was Antony Gormley’s gigantic Horizon Field Hamburg all about?

Sculptures / 3 minutes of reading

Over the past one and a half years, British artist Antony Gormley has prepared an exhibition at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Europe’s biggest space for contemporary art. Rather than following through with the proposed retrospective, Gormley decided to create a massive interactive sculpture that only comes alive by the participation of the visitors. Visitors entered the

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Damien Hirst’s Spot Paintings – Trivial or inspiring? You decide

Paintings / 12 minutes of reading

Damien Hirst in Matt Black's "Reflections" seriesWatch this video on YouTube 4 min 37 sec Damien Hirst is one of the most successful and controversial artists and has been dominating the British art scene since the 1990s. Though he became famous through a series of artworks centered on the death motif, the Spot Paintings have

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Cyprien Gaillard’s Recovery of discovery – A beer pyramid

Installations / 5 minutes of reading

Cyprien Gaillard is a French modern artist born in 1980 in the capital of France, Paris. Currently, he lives and works between New York and Berlin. His work oscillates between minimalism, romanticism, vandalism, and land art. Influences Land art artist Robert Smithson created and advocated the concept of entropy. This concept, the idea of disorder

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What is the Senseless Drawing Bot? Takahiro Yamaguchi & So Kanno

Graffiti, Paintings / 1 minute of reading

The Senseless Drawing Bot by the two Japanese Takahiro Yamaguchi and So Kanno explores the relationship between machine and art and was shown at the exhibition “UTOPIA no OSHIRASE” in Tokyo in October 2011. What the device does The Senseless Drawing Bot is a self-propelling device on a skateboard that sprays abstract linework on a

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Luciano Calderon’s solo exhibition Street Dreams in Germany

Paintings / 2 minutes of reading

Public Delivery presents Luciano Calderon at Ruttkowski68 in Cologne, Germany. The exhibition opens on October 7th, 2011, at 8 pm. The exhibition is on display until October 30th, 2011. Coming from the ghetto of Villa 31 in Buenos Aires, Luciano Calderon (b. 1985) is showing new works on canvases. The exhibition is on display from

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Shocking: Beautiful ring made out of Crystal Meth

Installations / 2 minutes of reading

This ring by Tokyo-based artist Issei Watanabe (渡邉一生) contains a little bit of Crystal Meth, a dangerous drug, widespread not only in the US but throughout all regions and social groups. Watanabe exhibited this challenging artwork in 2010 while being a student in Pratt’s MFA program. Issei’s Statement For my thesis exhibition

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Artist David Bowen helps you experience waves in a museum

Installations / 1 minute of reading

This installation by David Bowen draws information from the intensity and movement of the water in a remote location. Wave data is being collected in real-time from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data buoy Station 46246 (49°59’7″ N 145°5’20″ W) on the Pacific Ocean. The wave intensity and frequency are scaled and transferred to

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