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'The Reality We Live in Is Our Own Construction'"Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, best known for building waterfalls in New York and a giant sun in London, opens his first major show in Berlin this week. In an interview with SPIEGEL ONLINE, Eliasson talks about how the artist can bring about social evolution and why a room full of colored smoke can change your life." Or full of volcanic ash...
Vectorial VancouverOh yeah, hey, the Winter Olympics start tomorrow... here's a little Vancouver style celebratory art for you.
The Human Body as Factory"The eye is a camera, the nose is a turbine, the internal organs are a series of cogs, levers and interconnected pipes -- Fritz Kahn's unusual take on biology became hugely popular in the 1920s. Now a Berlin museum has dusted off the long-overlooked illustrations and is paying tribute to his industrial vision of biology."
"Hitler's little helpers""Visitors to the Bavarian town of Straubing will be startled at the sight of a mass of black gnomes standing in military formation and doing the Hitler salute this week. It is a temporary art installation by a German sculptor who wants to portray the little figures as "symptoms of a political disease."
Peter Zumthor by Helene Binet, CologneMs. Binet has been photographing Mr. Zumthor's work for the last ten years... Quite stunning.
Well-Behaved Street-Corner Sculpture"Outdoor art isn't what it used to be. Once it honored heroic individuals and upheld values that whole populations could embrace. Today, excepting memorials like the Vietnam veterans wall, outdoor art serves rather to divert, amuse and comfort."
7/7 Memorial in London's Hyde ParkDesigned by architect Carmody Groarke with engineer Arup and landscape architect Colvin & Moggridge as a memorial to the victims of the July 7, 2005, terrorist bombs exploded at four sites in London.
The Tree MuseumA temporary installation by artist Katie Holten to mark the 100th anniversary of the Grand Concourse, a four-mile-long boulevard that connects Manhattan to the parks of the Northern Bronx. 100 specially-chosen trees between 138th Street and Mosholu Parkway tell a story...
Between LinesLighting artist Marcus Tremonto's exhibition at the Franziska Kessler Gallery in Zurich through 30 August, 2009. Cool stuff, especially the 'Paper Landscapes' series.
Banksy at Bristol City MuseumGuerrilla artist Banksy has unveiled an exhibition featuring more than 100 works which were installed in the museum amid great secrecy. He said: 'This is the first show I've ever done where taxpayers' money is being used to hang my pictures up rather than scrape them off.' [photo gallery]
Trouble in (Viennese) Paradise"The Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna has launched an art installation that puts its animals side-by-side with symbols of humanity's trashing of the environment -- including abandoned cars, rusty bathtubs and toxic waste."
Hudson River Piling ProjectFigurative sculptor Joan Benefiel has designed an installation of 10-foot tall translucent orange resin figures mounted on pilings of a derelict Hudson River pier on the west side of Manhattan.
Interview: Richard MosseExtraordinary photos and observations by photographer Richard Mosse show the imperial palaces of Saddam Hussein converted into temporary housing for the U.S military.
iPhone artArtist Jorge Colombo created the cover for the June 1, 2009 issue of The New Yorker with his iPhone.
Should Banksy be nominated for the Turner prize?Critic Jonathan Jones says, "The reason I don't like street art is that it's not aesthetic, it's social. To celebrate it is to celebrate ignorance, aggression, all the things our society excels at. For middle class people to find artistic excitement in something that scares old people on estates is a bit sick."
An American Passion"Camilo Jose Vergara has been photographing America's urban neighborhoods for more than 30 years. ...Vergara is interested in how places change -- how storefronts become churches, and how churches change identity from one religion to another. In going through his archives, something else caught his eye: images of Christ from all over the country."
Elastic Plastic SpongeA misty installation for the upcoming Coachella music Festival designed by Ball-Nogues Studio in collaboration with SCI-Arc students.
Dublin VertigoPhotographer Paul O'Connell captured the incredible (and rare) view from the top of the Spire monument in Dublin, Ireland. [Also see Land+Living Éire Spire, 9/11/2007]
Rooftop trailer park in Cape TownBut it's not just a trailer park of Gulfstreams on the roof of a hotel, it is also a green roof and art installation. And you can sleep in your choice of trailer replete with conceptual interior design. Oh yeah, and there's a rooftop bar just outside your trailer door. Book now.
"A Square"Bird's-eye views of small urban landscape amenities by Korean photographer Hosang Park. Fascinating.
Artist Sues The A.P. Over Obama Image"In a pre-emptive strike, the street artist Shepard Fairey filed a lawsuit on Monday against The Associated Press, asking a federal judge to declare that he is protected from copyright infringement claims in his use of a news photograph as the basis for a now ubiquitous campaign poster image of President Obama."
Robert Rauschenberg dies at 82The pop art pioneer, whose work spanned the worlds of painting, sculpture and dance, has passed away in Florida at age 82.
Interview: Daniel GuzmánOn growing up in Mexico City: "I didn't go to art school and discover popular culture; it was already all around me." Awesome.
The Future of the Plinth"Six new artists presented their ideas for Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth. See their visions on Guardian Arts."
