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

Installations / 1 minute of reading
In 2005, MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) presented a monumental and uniquely American sculptural installation by Dave Cole. Cole’s project The Knitting Machine comprised two excavators specially fitted with massive 20′ knitting needles, which produced an oversized American flag, which can be seen as both a celebratory gesture of pride and a commentary …

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

Installations / 1 minute of reading
Apolítico is an installation by Cuban Wilfredo Prieto (1978), first created in 2001 and now showing 45 iconic flags by countries recognized by the United Nations. However, the artist stripped the flags of their familiar colors, creating abstract and egalitarian versions. The work is shown at the Hardturm Stadium, formerly a site of international soccer …

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Tom Fruin’s New York Watertower – Made of 1000 scrap plexiglass pieces

Architecture, Sculptures / 5 minutes of reading
Not many artists enjoy the privilege of having their pieces displayed in New York City’s prime locations, but artist Tom Fruin does enjoy this. His creation of the Water Tower is a sight to behold and can be easily viewed from FDR Drive, parks and streets of Dumbo, Manhattan Bridge, Lower Manhattan, Brooklyn Bridge Park, …

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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. Franz West was born on February 16, 1947, in Vienna, Austria. His father was a coal dealer and his mother, …

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

Installations, Light / 1 minute 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 / 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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Cyprien Gaillard’s massive neon sculpture of Indian overlooks Berlin

Installations / 1 minute of reading
Cyprien Gaillard (b. 1980 in Paris) put up the enormous Neon Indian on the Haus der Statistik at the Alexanderplatz in Berlin. The Indian is reminiscent of the logo of the US Baseball team Cleveland Indians. Gaillard often uses this in 1894 created image and refers to the use of Indian names and mascots in …

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