Installations

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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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Yayoi Kusama – Dots for Love and Peace, 2009, City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand feat

Yayoi Kusama covers the City Gallery Wellington with her dots

Installations / 2 minutes of reading

Dots for Love and Peace (2009) was one of only three temporary public art projects worldwide designed by iconic Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. It was installed on the exterior architecture of the City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand. Dots for Love and Peace is an intense and unexpected public artwork and reflects Kusama’s obsessive interest in

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What is Yvette Mattern’s global rainbow?

Light Installations / 2 minutes of reading

Global Rainbow, After the Storm is a monumental outdoor laser installation by American artist Yvette Mattern, viewable to millions of New Yorkers. Organized in response to Hurricane Sandy, the artist projected seven beams of high power laser light over communities hit hard by the storm, originating on Manhattan’s Lower West Side and spanning across Brooklyn

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Elmgreen & Dragset’s Short-Cut looks like an accident scene

Installations / 7 minutes of reading

Berlin-based artist duo Elmgreen and Dragset have carved their career out of fixation with objects and their settings and what happens when those particular objects are recontextualized in the name of art. In this instance, the duo was commissioned by Fondazione Nicola Trussardi to create a large-scale installation for Milan’s quintessential shopping mall, Galleria Vittorio

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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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Dave Cole’s Knitting Machine is producing a gigantic American flag

Installations / 2 minutes of reading

In 2005, MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) presented a monumental and uniquely American sculptural installation by Providence-based sculptor Dave Cole. For Cole’s industrial-sized project The Knitting Machine, he used two excavators and replaced their shovels with telephone poles, fitting them with massive 6 meters (20 ft.) knitting needles. This giant machine produced an

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Paola Pivi’s How I Roll – Air plane rotates in New York’s Central Park

Installations / 4 minutes of reading

For two months, a small airplane was rotating 24 hours a day in summer 2012 in Central Park, New York. Previous works by Paola Pivi have also featured large machines, including an overturned tractor-trailer and a helicopter placed upside down. How I Roll by Paola Pivi, situated at the Doris C. Freedman Plaza, marked the

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Barbara Kruger wrapped entire buses in her iconic prints

Installations / 6 minutes of reading

From the late 1990s to recent years, Pictures Generation conceptual artist/activist Barbara Kruger has wrapped several buses in her prints – in New York, Los Angeles and Cologne. Her work is usually known for its bold, eye-catching design and philosophical themes. About Barbara Kruger Barbara Kruger is a New Jersey-born conceptual artist known for her

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Elmgreen & Dragset created Marfa’s own Prada store

Installations / 5 minutes of reading

Prada Marfa is a permanent installation work of two Scandinavian artists Elmgreen & Dragset. The freestanding building resembles a Prada storefront and was launched on October 1, 2005, as a “pop architectural land art project”. Can you go inside Prada Marfa? From a distance, the artwork appears to be a large minimalist sculpture. As one

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Yoko Ono’s Imagine Peace – 15 giant billboards at Times Square, New York

Installations / 2 minutes of reading

Until December 30, 2012, 15 giant electronic billboards at Times Square, New York, were transformed into Imagine Peace, a public art project by Yoko Ono. Her message of anti-violence was translated into 24 different languages, set over the tranquil imagery of a blue-sky background. The piece has been transformed into a site-specific multi-channel work. It

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Yayoi Kusama’s Yellow Trees covers entire buildings in New York

Installations / 1 minute of reading

In celebration of Yayoi Kusama’s past retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art earlier in 2012, two off-site projects took place. In one of them, Kusama’s rhythmic dotted “Yellow Tree motif transformed a construction site in the Meatpacking District in Manhattan into a giant canvas. A detail of the original painting Yellow Trees (1994)

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Wilfredo Prieto’s Apolítico – Stripping iconic flags of their familiar color

Installations / 3 minutes of reading

Apolítico, created in 2001 by Cuban artist Wilfredo Prieto (1978), was a collection of 45 flags from different countries around the world. Prieto chose the countries based on the fact they were all recognized by the United Nations. In an interesting twist, the artist stripped the color from the flags and kept the abstract and

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Impressive photos of Tokyo’s Hotaru Firefly festival on Sumida river

Installations, Light Installations / 4 minutes of reading

Fireflies have become a rare sight in Japan. Once they used to glow their low light all over the country in the summer time but now they have become an uncommon sight even in rural areas. Last month 100,000 LED lights floated down through Tokyo’s city centre on the Sumida river mimicking a stream of

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What do you think about Robert Montgomery’s poem billboards?

Installations, Light Installations / 5 minutes of reading

Robert Montgomery is a Scottish/British artist, poet, and sculptor famous for his site-specific billboards that are created from light and text, and also fire poems. Montgomery is also the associate publisher of Dazed & Confused. His works border melancholic post-situationist tradition. The artist believes that art should be taken out of galleries and be placed

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Ai Weiwei explains his famous Sunflower Seeds

Installations / 11 minutes of reading

Introduction Ai Weiwei emerged as a revolutionary artist on the scene of Chinese art and culture. He served as a protagonist in various dynamic avant-garde movements. His controversial exhibitions have taken the world of art by storm. He has been represented on top in the list of 100 most powerful people who belong to the

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Magdalena Jetelová’s domesticated pyramids fill up museums

Installations / 3 minutes of reading

Czech installation artist Magdalena Jetelová has made a name for herself in the world of conceptual land art, and the Domestication of Pyramids is hands down her most spectacular work in this art form. Even though she is also well known for her light contraptions and visualizations of nature and landscapes, the Pyramids remain the

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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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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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Cyprien Gaillard’s massive neon sculpture of an Indian overlooks Berlin

Installations / 3 minutes of reading

The mascot of the American baseball team Cleveland Indians, popularly known as Chief Wahoo, is as highly recognized as it is controversial. That makes Cyprien Gaillard’s (b. 1980) installation on top of Haus der Statistik, an abandoned government building in Alexanderplatz, Berlin, a headline magnet. At times, the arbitrariness of what symbolic icons can make

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