The World’s Largest Rubber Duck Arrives in Hong Kong
Rubber Duck by conceptual artist Florentijin Hofman in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong. (via Colossal)
2 weeks ago
Big Air Package by artist Christo
Big Air Package is the latest project from artist Christo installed at the Gasometer Oberhausen in Germany, a facility that still holds the record as the largest disc-type gas holder in Europe that was converted into an exhibition hall in the 1990s. Big Air Package is the largest ever inflated envelope without aid of a skeleton, and reaches 90 meters high, with a diameter of 50 meters and a volume of 177, 000 cubic meters. The installation opened this weekend and will remain on view through December 2013. (Colossal)
1 month ago
Oscar Niemeyer by Edouardo Kobra
2 months ago
Mirrored Room
“The Phoenix is closer than it appears,” a 4 x 4 x 8 meters-room was constructed by artist Thilo Frank at the Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg, Denmark. (Colossal)
3 months ago
Jeongmoon Choi
Fantastic light installations by Korean artist Jeongmoon Choi.
(“Birdcage” / 2006 / threads, black lights / approx. 16 sqm space / 3. Berliner Kunstsalon, Berlin)
(“How to build a house” / 2010 / approx. 20 sqm space, threads, black lights
MMX Open Art Venue, Berlin)
(“Room in room” / 2011 / approx. 80 sqm space, threads, black lights. Exhibition “RAPID RABBIT” / Frise Künstlerhaus, Hamburg)
3 months ago
Mentalgassi at Getxo Photo 2012
4 months ago
ANN HAMILTON: the event of a thread
(Top photo by BLOUIN ARTINFO. Bottom photo by Philip Greenberg for The New York Times)
You have just until this Sunday, January, 6 to see this amazing installation by Ann Hamilton at the Park Avenue Armory in NYC.
4 months ago
Snow Art by Simon Beck
4 months ago
Sugar Murals and Cake Icing Graffiti by Shelley Miller
Using materials that for centuries have been reserved as tasty decoration the finest cakes and pastries, Montreal-based artist Shelley Miller attacks brick walls and deteriorating urban surfaces with cake icing to create ornate scrolls and decorative motifs. While the medium itself is purely culinary, her illustrations and patterns borrow heavily from calligraphy and decorative arabesque scrolls seen in ancient temples and mosques. Another added dimension is its impermanence as the works crack, drip, and melt off the wall, potentially disappearing in just a few days. (This is Colossal)
6 months ago
Building Community in an Empty Tire Shop
An empty tire shop in the vast parking lot of a fading suburban shopping mall wouldn’t seem like the sort of place to find a community. But community is just what a place like this needs, according to Jim Walker. He’s the executive director of Big Car, an artist-run collaborative in Indianapolis that’s focused on coupling arts projects with economic development efforts in parts of the city that are lacking both. His group – and a couple hundred local volunteers – have been steadily transforming an abandoned tire store in the Lafayette Square neighborhood into a living arts and community space. (The Atlantic Cities)
9 months ago
