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Richard Serra’s One Ton Prop (House of Cards) – The summation of his work

Sculptures / 3 minutes of reading

Richard Serra has undeniably consolidated his career in contemporary art through his many controversial works including his now well known installation One Top Prop. Most Richard Serra exhibitions have elicited debates and discussions. In some cases, visitors have even sustained injuries, and there have even been some incidences of death recorded. This sculpture killed a […]

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Photographer Joel Sternfeld & his American Prospects project

Photography / 3 minutes of reading

In 1980, President Reagan was elected president and Joel Sternfeld had embarked on a road trip across America that would allow him to capture life in America as it was in the 1980s. Having been awarded the Guggenheim grant two years earlier in 1978, Joel’s American Prospects was later to become one of the most

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Sebastião Salgado’s impressive photos: This was Brazil’s largest & most dangerous gold mine

Photography / 3 minutes of reading

Serra Pelada is a series of photographs taken in 1986 depicting endless numbers of mine workers distributed on various parts of a tall gold mining cliff. The black and white photos were taken from a distance and at an elevated vantage point by photographer Sebastiao Salgado. Because of the location and the angle in which

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Pieter Hugo’s Hyena Men – Fascinating photos from Nigeria

Photography / 7 minutes of reading

Pieter Hugo is one of South Africa’s most recognizable photographers most notably known today for his Hyena and Other Men series. During his nascent career, he was mainly practicing photojournalism before realizing he was not doing enough with his skills. He wanted to get more involved and engaged, to aggressively cross-examine the voyeuristic scrutiny that

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Yeesookyung’s ceramic vases: Imperfection & surprising results

Ceramics, Sculptures / 3 minutes of reading

Yeesookyung is a South Korean artist living in Seoul. She is known for her complex and enchanting ceramic designs and sculptures. Like many of her works, the Translated series series is made up of shards and fragments of broken ceramic pieces that are carefully pieced together like a jigsaw puzzle. Yeesookyung created her Translated Vase

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Ron Mueck’s Couple Under An Umbrella sculpture tells the story of love

Sculptures / 2 minutes of reading

At first glance, especially from a picture, it is easy to assume that the Couple under an Umbrella sculpture is a real-life image frozen in time. In a world marred by conflict and competition, everybody appreciates the display of affection by people. The couple in question is quite elderly, and the artist must have chosen

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Joe Namy’s colorful & oversized curtain partially covers museum

Installations, Textile art / 1 minute of reading

For his Sharjah Biennial 13 project, artist and composer Joe Namy’s has researched the influence of opera on music in the Arab world. Starting in Egypt with the founding of the Khedivial Opera House in 1869, he has found traces of the art form in Lebanon, Palestine, Kuwait, and more recently, the United Arab Emirates.

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Andy Warhol’s scandalous 13 Most Wanted Men: Destroyed within days

Installations, Murals, Paintings, Photography / 3 minutes of reading

Pop provocateur Andy Warhol was never a stranger to controversy. In 1964, as part of a series of commissions for the New York State Pavilion, Warhol was commissioned to work on an installation displayed on the face of the pavilion, which was to serve as one of the main venues of the fair. Embed from

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Banned: Sun Yuan & Peng Yu’s controversial dog video

Performances, Video Art / 3 minutes of reading

The video work titled Dogs That Cannot Touch Each Other has only recently been removed from Guggenheim Museum’s exhibition series known as Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World. The video series has been met with disapproval and disparagement not only by some art critics but animal lovers and welfare organizations as well.

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Shirin Neshat’s Book of Kings captures the faces of the Arab Spring riots

Photography / 3 minutes of reading

The Gladstone Gallery and the Faurschou Foundation in Beijing, China are just some of the art spaces that have had the pleasure of exhibiting Shirin Neshat’s The Book of Kings. The exhibition consisted of a total of 56 black and white photos framed in unmated and black frames that were hung across the two galleries.

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Yoko Ono – This is just an apple

Installations / 2 minutes of reading

A bright green apple spotlighted on top of a tall plexiglass pedestal would have been the first object you would have seen upon entering the exhibition titled Yoko Ono: one-woman show, 1960-1971. The show, which was held at the Museum of Modern art in New York, was created to give visitors a glimpse of Yoko

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Phillipe Chancel in North Korea – Photos of the Arirang Mass Games

Photography / 3 minutes of reading

Every year, North Korea holds a lavish and extravagant celebration for its ruler known as the Arirang celebrations, held at the May Day Stadium in Pyongyang. The Arirang celebrations can be classified in the same category as the Olympic celebrations. The audience is always treated to a highly choreographed show, the likes of which have

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Jaume Plensa’s giant Crown Fountain sculpture in Chicago spits out water

Sculptures / 3 minutes of reading

Within Chicago’s Millennium Park stands an interactive piece of art that the public never seems to have enough of. Designed by Jaume Plensa, a Catalan artist, the fountain is an illustration of how creativity and technology can mingle to form an enchanting piece of work. Crown Fountain The work, which was unveiled in July 2004

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Great Fire of London: 120m replica of the London skyline burned

Installations, Sculptures / 3 minutes of reading

London is on fire! This is the scene that artist David Best desired to create when he came up with the idea dubbed ‘London 1666’. This is not the first time that David has created something that he would later burn but it is definitely the first in making a creation of such huge proportion.

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Why did the Danish artists Superflex flood McDonald’s?

Performances / 2 minutes of reading

In this short film, a life-size replica of a McDonald’s burger bar gets flooded with water gradually. There are images of furniture being washed away in the water, food floating around the room, and electric appliances short-circuit to a halt before space can no longer be seen below the water. While the production lacks the

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Francesco Jodice’s What We Want – How do we live today?

Photography / 2 minutes of reading

Ever been to a place and felt that it is not quite satisfactory in terms of how it looks? Well, Francesco Jodice is recreating spaces into what they should be if we had control of them. For a long time, people’s lives were influenced by the buildings that existed, but the trend is taking a

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Pedro Marzorati’s striking installation comments on climate change

Installations, Sculptures, Statues / 2 minutes of reading

As you walk through Paris and especially in the Montsouris Park, one cannot help but notice the blue busts that appear to be rising from under the surface of the water. This artwork is known as Where the Tides Ebb and Flow created by Pedro Marzorati, an Argentinian artist. What is the meaning of the

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Yayoi Kusama’s most outstanding sculptures – Pumpkins & Flowers

Sculptures / 7 minutes of reading

Celebrating her 90th birthday in 2019, Yayoi Kusama is a leading Japanese artist and legend as far as art is concerned. While she deliberately makes unique pieces that can withstand the wear and tear of the outdoors, she is renowned for reproducing her art on a monumental scale when need be. Her career spans over

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At 78 years old, Ed Ruscha has perfected his artistic skills

Paintings / 2 minutes of reading

At 78 years old, Ed Ruscha has perfected his artistic skills to the extent that he can express the noises of everyday life on a canvas. When he began his art in 1961, no one would have thought that the works that had words written over them would translate into such epic levels of fame.

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Carsten Höller’s slides: A fun way to experience museums

Architecture, Sculptures / 9 minutes of reading

Carsten Höller is well known for playfully including his slide installations in major museums across the world. Höller, formerly a scientist with a degree in agronomy, is famous for repurposing real-world components, such as slides, for art spaces. The majority of his works feature aesthetics that are relational, meaning that the projects created are inspired

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Marta Minujín’s monument at notorious fascist book-burning location

Architecture, Installations / 3 minutes of reading

In the 1930s and 1940s in fascist Germany, the government banned thousands of books which had been written by authors of Jewish descent or writers that had previously shown communist or pacifist alliances. Decades later, a monument has been created to commemorate the censored books under the guidance of Argentine artist Marta Minujín. The monument

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