Art interventions

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Richard Wilson’s Turning the Place Over – A radical intrusion in Liverpool

Architecture, Installations / 4 minutes of reading

Turning the Place Over was a temporary artwork that was created for the European Capital of Culture. Liverpool got its turn to host the European Capital of Cultural in 2007, a few years after the city received its UNESCO World Heritage Site designation. The European Capital of Culture saw several events and art exhibitions …

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Lin Yilin’s performance – Safely Maneuvering Across Lin He Road

Performances, Video Art / 4 minutes of reading

Lin Yilin Lin Yilin needs no introductions in the world of performance art. As one of the most well-known Chinese artists, Yilin has made a name for himself for his contemporary interventions and performance pieces that often criticize China’s extreme urbanization, modernization, commercial globalization, as well as its geopolitical conflicts. Lin was born in Guangzhou, …

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Francis Alÿs’s Green Line & 58 liters of paint

Performances, Video Art / 7 minutes of reading

What was it? In 1995, Francis Alÿs performed a walk holding a leaking can of blue paint in the Brazilian city of São Paulo. That simple walk was then interpreted as a poetic gesture. Nine years later, Alÿs re-enacted that same gesture with a leaking can of green paint. Alÿs’s performance provoked so much attention …

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Joseph Beuys’ ambitious plan to plant 7000 oaks

Environmental Art, Installations, Video Art / 5 minutes of reading

7000 Oaks 7000 Oaks is an environmental artwork created by German artist Joseph Beuys. The artist proposed a plan to have 7000 oaks trees planted across the Germany city of Kassel, each tree accompanied with basalt stone, 4 feet high above the ground. Joseph Beuys’ objection was for the project to extend throughout the world …

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Banksy’s Rage, The Flower Thrower – Everything you need to know

Paintings, Street Art / 7 minutes of reading

Rage, the Flower Thrower Rage, the Flower Thrower or Love is in the Air is one of the most iconic stencils by Banksy. It shows a masked Palestinian throwing a bouquet of flowers. Banksy is known for displaying his works out in the open for the public to view, in places such as walls in …

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Why Gordon Matta-Clark cut holes in buildings – Conical Intersect

Architecture, Performances / 5 minutes of reading

For the 1975 Paris Biennale, Gordon Matta-Clark made big cone-shaped holes in two buildings near the Centre Georges Pompidou. The action took place in Les Halles, a neighborhood that was being demolished. Matta-Clark aimed to permit passers-by to peek through to the Centre Pompidou while it had been under construction. Conical Intersect (1975) was …

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Agnes Denes - Wheatfield - A Confrontation, 1982, Battery Park Landfill, Downtown Manhattan

Why did Agnes Denes create this Wheatfield in New York?

Environmental Art, Installations / 10 minutes of reading

Wheatfield – A Confrontation Agnes Denes is a renowned Hungary-American and artist with numerous pioneering artworks that carried a prophetic message. She is known for her groundbreaking use of metallic inks and other non-traditional materials in creating an unusual body of exquisitely rendered prints and drawings that delineate her explorations in philosophy, mathematics, science, geography, …

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Gordon Matta-Clark – How to split a house in two?

Architecture, Performances / 4 minutes of reading

Who was Gordon Matta-Clark? Gordon Matta-Clark was a well-known artist who was primarily active in New York in the 1970s before his death at the age of 35. Even though he went to school to study architecture, he has never professionally practiced this career. Matta-Clark was one of the most persuasive American artists that set …

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Why did Olafur Eliasson turn these rivers green?

Installations / 5 minutes of reading

Next March, just like any other month of March, the Chicago Plumbers will dye the city’s river green. They have been doing this since 1962, in loving memory of St. Patrick, celebrating an icon in the history of Ireland and Chicago. Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson mounted another similar project, but with a whole different …

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How did Banksy’s Girl with Balloon end up in a shredder?

Murals, Paintings, Street Art / 10 minutes of reading

Who is Banksy? Banksy, according to some sources, was born in 1974 in Bristol, United Kingdom. He is one of the world’s most secretive artists. Most of his fans don’t know how he looks likes. Over the years, Banksy has won over many hearts with his humorous and thought-provoking stencil works, which would appear in …

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Why did Francis Alÿs push a block of ice for 9 hours?

Performances / 3 minutes of reading

What is Francis Alÿs known for? Francis Alÿs is known for using poetic and metaphorical techniques to highlight the political and social realities of his city. Often, the issues he addresses range from national border politics to globalism and areas of conflict in his community and the effects of modernism. As one of the most …

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Ian Strange burns down suburban houses in the name of art

Paintings, Performances / 3 minutes of reading

Suburban by Ian Strange Suburban is a complex film and photography installation by New York-based Australian artist Ian Strange. Suburban was created by Strange as a result of a collaboration with a film crew and volunteers from different parts of America, including Alabama, Detroit, New Hampshire, Ohio and New York. Over the course of three …

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Why did Russian collective Voina paint this gigantic phallus?

Paintings, Performances, Street Art / 3 minutes of reading

Who is Voina? A group of Moscow art members, also known as the “Members of War” or more popularly as Voina have racked up quite the reputation for themselves as art rebels. The group is famous for faking gay beatings at local malls or portraying Russia’s federal museum director in an orgy. On the morning …

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How Ana Teresa Fernández erased the US-Mexico border

Performances / 3 minutes of reading

Ana Teresa Fernández, an artist born in Tampico, Mexico, who studied in San Francisco, California and Lausanne, Switzerland, is known for her ability to make powerful statements. Her statement is especially strong when it comes to the politics of space and place. How Fernández erased the border Her piece, Erasing the Border, is one …

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This is why Keith Haring got arrested numerous times

Graffiti, Paintings / 5 minutes of reading

Keith Haring arrested & interviewed 3 min 21 sec Keith Haring’s subway art In the early 1980s Keith Haring created hundreds of drawings in the New York subway system. He used chalk to paint on unused advertising space, which was covered with black sheets of paper. Haring was caught and fined …

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Jazoo Yang (양 자주) created these uncommon murals in South Korea

Graffiti, Paintings, Street Art / 4 minutes of reading

Who is Jazoo Yang? Jazoo Yang is a South Korean artist who lives and works in Beijing and Seoul. She uses her paintings and installations to document others’ solitude, often in interesting ways. Her paintings, which she creates by using brushes or knives, are usually not finished so that the surface becomes the infinite space …

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Who was Daniel ‘Tagno’ Weissbach?

Graffiti, Paintings, Street Art / 5 minutes of reading

Artist bio Daniel’ Tango’ Weissbach (1976-2020) was a Berlin-based graffiti artist who began his trade in the late 1980s. He studied at the University of Potsdam’s animation department and graduated in 2006. At the age of 12, he decided that he wanted to be an artist. Weissbach began as a graffiti and street artist before …

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