River art

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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Olafur Eliasson installed a riverbed in a museum

Environmental Art, Installations / 3 minutes of reading

Who is Olafur Eliasson? Olafur Eliasson was born in 1967 in Copenhagen but his family immigrated to Iceland later on during his childhood. Since the beginning of his career as an artist, he has worked hard to create visually impactful work that has been characterized by sincerity. Through the years, Eliasson has built up a …

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Lu Guang & pollution: Chinese regime doesn’t want you to see this

Photography / 3 minutes of reading

Lu Guang is an award-winning Chinese photojournalist and has done a lot of documentary projects highlighting social, economic and environmental issues and injustices. This renowned photojournalist’s exposures on pollution and environmental destruction have long been underreported in China due to the government’s penchant to mete out punishment to such activists. Due to his work …

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Cai Guo-Qiang’s rainbow explodes over New York

Performances / 2 minutes of reading

The Transient Rainbow by Cai Guo-Qiang was a minute-long show of color and light and it was held at the East River, just over the southern tip of Roosevelt Island. The event was held by the Museum of Modern Art, New York to commemorate MOMA’s temporary move to Queens. The Transient Rainbow was displayed …

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Great Fire of London: 120m replica of London skyline burned

Installations, Sculptures / 3 minutes of reading

David Best’s London 1666 London is on fire! This is the scene that artist David Best desired to create when he came up with the idea dubbed ‘London 1666’. This is not the first time that David has created something that he would later burn but it is definitely the first in making a creation …

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Edward Burtynsky’s impressive China photographs – Manufactured Landscapes

Photography / 5 minutes of reading

Edward Burtynsky in China For Edward Burtynsky, photography is much more than immortalizing a scene; while his focus is on taking photos, he is keen on sharing his point of view with the rest of the world. One of the most outstanding aspects of his works is his ability to connect to the real world. …

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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...

Nadav Kander: 3 years taking photos of China’s longest river

Documentary photography, Photography / 3 minutes of reading

Nadav Kander’s trips to China For his Yangtze photos Nadav Kander came to China several times in 2005 to 2007, visited 186 cities and traveled along the world’s third-largest river, from the spring in the Himalaya to the mouth. Humans are usually just portrayed as small figures next to a gigantic setting, either the river …

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

Installations, Light Installations / 4 minutes of reading

What happened on Sumida river? 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 …

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