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Looking at Erwin Wurm’s Fat Cars will make you laugh

Sculptures / 5 minutes of reading

Erwin Wurm is one of the greatest sculptors to come out of Austria. He is known internationally for the bizarre sculptures he has created throughout his career. Wurm was born in Bruck an der Mur, Styria, Austria, and currently lives and works in Limberg and Vienna, Austria. Fat Cars Wurm thinks the creation of sculpture […]

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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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Christo’s Mastaba – From Abu Dhabi to London

Architecture, Sculptures / 9 minutes of reading

Christo’s first permanent large-scale work, The Mastaba, would have been the world’s largest sculpture and installed 160km south of the city of Abu Dhabi. The planning of this enormous installation begins in 1977. It was originally conceived as a sculpture for the desert in Abu Dhabi. Christo and his wife and long-term partner Jeanne-Claude drew

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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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This is Asia’s tallest mural (70m+)

Murals, Paintings, Street Art / 3 minutes of reading

During the last week of August 2012, German painter Hendrik Beikirch created not only a stunning work but an iconic piece that stretches over 70 meters (230 ft.) high and is yet to be considered as Asia’s tallest mural. Located in South Korea‘s second-largest city, Busan, this piece showcases a monochromatic mural of a fisherman

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Erwin Wurm’s One Minute Sculptures are refreshing

Performances, Sculptures / 7 minutes of reading

Erwin Wurm was born in 1954 in Bruck an der Mur, Styria, Austria. He is known for his humorous style as well as his peculiar portrayals of daily life. Since the late 1990s Austrian artist, Erwin Wurm is working on his on-going One Minute Sculpture series in which he or others pose with everyday objects

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Why is Franz West considered one of the most important Austrian artists?

Sculptures / 11 minutes of reading

The Austrian Franz West (1947-2012), one of the most important postwar-artists, died less than two weeks ago on July 25, 2012. He left a career and a vast body of work spanning over several decades. Childhood Franz West was born on February 16, 1947, in Vienna, Austria. His father was a coal dealer and his

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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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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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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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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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