Art & deserts

Mario Irarrázabal – Mano del Desierto (Hand of the Desert), 1992, concrete, iron frame, 11 metres (36 ft) tall, installation view, Atacama Desert, Chile feat

The Hand of the Desert – Chile’s massive sculpture

Sculptures / 7 minutes of reading

Hand of the Desert / Mano Del Desierto Mano del Desierto (aka the Hand of the Desert) is one Chile’s most talked-about art installations. It is a gigantic cement hand structure jutting 36 feet (around 11 meters) out of the arid sand of the Chilean Atacama Desert, one of the emptiest, most barren, and driest …

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Insignificant mysteries in Ron Jude’s Lago

Photography / 3 minutes of reading

Ron Jude’s work Ron Jude’s work has always been characterized by a depth and character that other artists and photographers can only hope to attain. Jude’s pictorial practice can be likened to the work of other renowned photographers such as Gregory Halpern and John Divola. As a matter of fact, Jude credits John Divola as …

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Mark Ruwedel in Ouarzazate – An artistic capture of ruins

Photography / 3 minutes of reading

Artists find inspiration for their creations from different places. Some find it in the unlikeliest of places. Others rely on ordinary subjects to get motivation for ideas that help them to create their works. Mark Ruwedel offers a perfect example of this. In his series Ouarzazate, Ruwedel gives the world a glimpse into a …

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Richard Serra in Qatar – East-West/West-East

Sculptures / 5 minutes of reading

East-West/West-East has become a famous landmark in Qatar since its installation in 2014. The work is by Richard Serra, one of the most celebrated living sculptors. He was voted third greatest living artist by Vanity Fair poll in 2013. Richard Serra is known for conceptual manipulation of space, and East-West/West-East is more evidence than …

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Sebastião Salgado in Kuwait & A desert on fire

Photography / 2 minutes of reading

Kuwait: A Desert on Fire In the early 1990s, Kuwait hit news reports around the world for the war that different nations fought within its boundaries. In the years following that event, Kuwait and the effects of its war on citizens have inspired countless works of art around the world. They have inspired movies, songs, …

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Strijdom van der Merwe – Our top 10

Installations / 4 minutes of reading

“Land art encompasses everything – wind, birds, smell, touch. And my work doesn’t exist until I find it” – Van der Merwe Childhood and Education Strijdom van der Merwe is a South African land artist. Growing up as a young boy on a farm just outside of Johannesburg, Strijdom was always taken by the beauty …

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Aleix Plademunt in Dubailand, the world’s most expensive theme park

Photography / 3 minutes of reading

What is Dubailand? After being exposed to numerous renderings and 3d models of Dubailand, a new place near Dubai, photographer Aleix Plademunt decided to visit the place. Dubailand was compiled over a 3-month period that saw Aleix Pledemunt travel across the rich oasis of Dubai, which is a city that has come to be known …

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Steve McCurry’s magic India moments – Glamorous & worrying

Photography / 3 minutes of reading

Why Steve McCurry is fascinated with India Photographer Steve McCurry has been traveling to various parts of the globe photographing and capturing different subjects and people. His photography has led him down hidden pathways and streets, searching for what he calls the magic moment when color, light, and emotion work together in perfect harmony to …

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Shirin Neshat’s Rapture – Veiled women in their traditional Islamic attire

Performances, Photography / 3 minutes of reading

Rapture is a projection of black and white video where Iranian artist Shirin Neshat gives a narrative that concerns the differences between Muslim women and men. Neshat has used the video projection to explore the cultural and social role of women in the Islamic World and shot the work in Morocco with a cast …

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Doug Wheeler’s Synthetic Desert at Guggenheim – 46 years in the making

Installations / 2 minutes of reading

Backstory Over 40 years ago, a leading Light and Space artist called Doug Wheeler imagined an art project that resembled the tranquility you would experience if you travelled to an expansive desert such as the one in Arizona. For a long time, the idea only existed on paper due to the amount of resources it …

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These photos of Burning Man will make you want to go immediately

Photography, Sculptures / 1 minute of reading

Photographer Victor Habchy’s trip to Burning Man Victor Habchy is a French photographer and director. He was lucky enough to get a ticket to Burning Man, an annual festival in the middle of the desert of Nevada’s Black Rock Desert in the US. He describes the event as life-changing, spending a full week without electricity, …

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Ugo Rondinone’s colorful rocks in Vegas

Sculptures / 10 minutes of reading

Seven Magic Mountains, 2016 Far in the desert south of the city of Las Vegas in Nevada, you will find seven colossal pillars of stones made by pilling small, colorful pebbles perpendicularly. The figures appear poised between monumentality and collapse, creating a striking sight amidst barren landscapes. Titled Seven Magic Mountains, the shapes were installed …

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Why did Zhang Kechun travel along the Yellow River?

Photography / 3 minutes of reading

About the Yangtze, China’s Yellow River The Yangtze River, Asia’s longest river, is the main subject of The Yellow River, a series of phot...

Daesung Lee’s photography – 75% of Mongolia might turn into a desert

Photography / 3 minutes of reading

35% of Mongolians are still nomads Daesung Lee’s Futuristic Archeology project deals with the nomadic people of Mongolia. Although Mongolia has seen increasing modernization and urbanization in recent decades, approximately 35% of Mongolians still live a traditional nomadic lifestyle, thus depending on the vast land and their relationship with the land to survive. Mongolia’s land …

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This $265,000 Burning Man sculpture burned to ashes

Sculptures / 2 minutes of reading

Embrace by The Pier Group The Pier Group, a collective of artists, engineers, and builders, came together and spent a budget of $265,000 in order to create Embrace, the 72-foot (22 meter) sculpture of two figures embracing, whose fleeting life would end up in flames at the Burning Man festival. The sculpture had an internal …

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Artist David Brooks & These massive rooftops on Manhattan’s last undeveloped lot

Architecture, Sculptures / 4 minutes of reading

Imagine viewing rooftops at eye level with pedestrians in Manhattan, New York? That seems nearly impossible when you consider New York has more than 300 high-rise buildings taller than 150 meters. This means that to really appreciate the city’s landscape of rooftops, one has to climb to the rooftop of another landmark building or …

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