Beam Drop: a video by Chris Burden

Soren Dahlgaard Reader Find

By Soren Dahlgaard in Video on Monday 8 October 2012

This is an example of an amazingly cool approach to sculpture and public art. The process and the method of making this sculpture is the work and the final result is very cool, too. It’s a very muscular and male approach to making art to drop heavy iron beams from very high in the air [...]

Read more

Drastic Park: a mural collaboration between Tes One and Bask

Lost At E Minor Reader Find

By Lost At E Minor in New Art on Tuesday 15 May 2012

Drastic Park, the latest mural collaboration from Tes One and Bask, drills deep in contrast. The new work is part of an initiative to bring more public art to the Warehouse Arts District of St. Petersburg, Florida. To see the complete mural, visit their website.

Read more

Water tank transformed into 360° kinetic art

Contributions Reader Find

By Kate Farrall in New Art on Saturday 12 November 2011

Sofia Lacin and Hennessy Christophel recently completed Same Sun, the hand-painted, abstract mural and kinetic shadow installation on a five-story, 14,000-sf water tank in California. One third of the five month project was hand-held brushwork, done solely by the two artists. The artwork has a unique kinetic element whereby the installation interacts with the sun through shadows that move across the tank and complete the phrase, The Sun Shines Upon Us All, creating an interesting connection between time and place.

Read more (2 comments)

Melting men protest global warming

Andy Reader Find

By Andy in New Eco on Saturday 21 August 2010

Brazilian artist Nele Azevedo created this display of 1,000 ice men in Berlin in a statement against global warming. We like a smart public awareness initiative, but freezers aren’t too kind on the environment!

Read more

Notes From Chris hijacks NYC

Gerry Mak Reader Find

By Gerry Mak in Cool Travel on Thursday 3 June 2010

Notes from Chris is an incredible public art project started by Todd Lamb in 2008 which consists of weird notes, written by a fictional person named Chris, that are posted all over New York City. As a sort of literary version of invisible theater, the notes in aggregate actually succeed in depicting a rather fully [...]

Read more

Benjamin Verdoncke’s human nest

Julia Hennock Reader Find

By Julia Hennock in Cool Travel on Friday 30 May 2008

Just a few days ago, Benjamin Verdoncke climbed out of the human-sized nest he’d been residing in for the past seven days. The Belgian artist took six weeks to build the nest, which hung fifty metres high against a skyscraper in Rotterdam.

Read more (1 comment)