Marcos Zotes – YOUR TEXT HERE
The city is constantly telling us what to do, what to think, and how to act. Using explicit visual language, a multiplicity of billboards, signs, images and symbols invade our public spaces in order to tell us something. YOUR TEXT HERE by Marcos Zotes in Detroit was a project that challenged these ideals, giving the … Read more
Ernest Zacharevic Interactive Murals
Lithuanian artist Ernest Zacharevic has been brightening up walls around Penang in Malaysia with a series of interactive street art murals. His unique style lies in his use of interaction between physical objects and painted murals, creating stunning and often tongue-in-cheek, playful images that show a fine sense of humour. We think you’ll love them…
Firewall
Firewall is an interactive media installation created by New York-based artist Aaron Sherwood in collaboration with Mike Allison. A stretched sheet of spandex acts as a membrane interface sensitive to depth that people can push into and create fire-like visuals as well as expressively play music. Firewall stems from a performance art piece being developed as Purring Tiger … Read more
Giant Rubber Duck On River Thames
Today in London a giant 50ft-tall rubber duck was released up the River Thames to publicise a gambling site’s effort to give back some of their winnings into the community to provide a smile in these bleak economic times. Jackpotjoy.com‘s stunt saw former Carry On star Barbara Windsor, the patron for the FUNdation initiative, take … Read more
LEGO Advent Calendar
Last year LEGO created festive cheer with a Christmas tree made of thousands of tiny pieces in of the retro childhood toy in St.Pancras Station and this year have continued in their mission to banish the ‘bah humbug’ in all of us with a giant LEGO Advent Calendar in Covent Garden, London. The structured, formed … Read more
Omote 3D – World’s First 3D Photo Booth
Without doubt the development taking the creative world by storm is 3D printing and now thanks to those clever Japanese folks in trendy Shibuya, Tokyo, consumers now have the chance to enjoy it. A limited edition pop-up installation at the Eye Of Gyre Exhibition has conceived a 3D photo booth, Omote 3D which reproduces personal … Read more
Golden Moon – Hong Kong
At Hong Kong’s Lee Kum Kee Lantern Wonderland, amongst the various light displays lays Golden Moon, a huge temporary architectural structure that mimics a giant lantern. Designed by architects Kristof Crolla and Adam Fingrut as part of the Hong Kong Mid-Autumn Festival. The spectacular illuminated dome allows for a fantastic show of sound and neon … Read more
Anish Kapoor at Lisson Gallery
The Lisson Gallery in London is hosting a major exhibition of new works from the Turner Prize winning artist Anish Kapoor. Spanning both the gallery’s spaces on Bell Street, the exhibition provides a thorough exposition of Kapoor’s most recent work. A complex and varied body of new explorations of experience and form, Kapoor’s show includes … Read more
Rain Room at Barbican’s The Curve
Amongst all the terrible weather this autumn in London, it is strange that a forthcoming show at the Barbican, where the simple pleasure is walking into a room of torrential rain has grabbed my attention so much. Rain Room, by arts collective rAndom International [sic] at The Curve gallery, invites the public to become a … Read more
CLOUD
CLOUD is a large-scale interactive installation by Calgary-based artist Caitlind r.c. Brown for Nuit Blanche, a multi-city, contemporary late night arts festival. The piece is made from steel, metal pull-strings, and is a mixture of recycled and donated burnt out and fully illuminated light bulbs that have been crowd-sourced from the local neighbourhood. CLOUD asks … Read more
Thomas Schütte – Faces & Figures
The Serpentine Gallery last night premiered its latest exhibition, Thomas Schütte: Faces & Figures, a retrospective of one of the world’s most influential living contemporary artists. The German artist who studied under Gerhard Richter, Schütte, is known for his bewildering array of work, ranging from architectural models and actual buildings to diaristic watercolours, observational drawings … Read more
Yayoi Kusama & Louis Vuitton at Selfridges
The polka dot loving Yayoi Kusama is enjoying the biggest love-in of her art since she bound onto the scene so many years ago in the 50s. It seems that her obsessive style of modernism has finally been seen for the brilliance that it is. Following high profile exhibitions across the globe, Kusama, who now … Read more
From New Perspectives
From New Perspectives opening Wednesday 5 September at the EB & Flow Gallery on Leonard Street, East London, sees a brand new collective show from some of the best new and emerging abstract artists in the UK. The show, a two floor exhibition of paintings curated by 24-year-old Chelsea School of Art graduate Ralph Hunter-Menzies, … Read more
Mathilde Roussel – Lives of Grass
Paris-based designer Mathilde Roussel has created the stunning sculptures ‘Lives of Grass’ that show the effects of transformation of the material as a metaphor of the transformation of the body. Time sculpts the forms, makes them change and then decay. The natural world, ingested as food becomes a component of human being. Roussel’s sculptures strive … Read more
Banksy Olympic Street Art
Banksy is back with two new pieces of street art ahead of this year’s London 2012 Olympic Games. The new graffiti works see a javelin thrower with a missile and a pole vaulter hurdling barbed wire.
The Bruce Lacey Experience
The Bruce Lacey Experience currently on at the Camden Arts Centre showcases one of Britain’s great visionary artists. Co-curated by artist Jeremy Deller and art historian Professor David Alan Mellor, the exhibition charts Lacey’s artistic development in a career encompassing painting, sculpture, robotised assemblages, theatrical performances and installations, as well as community arts and ritual … Read more
Time-lapse Video of Kurt Perschke’s RedBall UK
This summer, New York artist Kurt Perschke brought his celebrated art project RedBall to the UK and captured the hearts and minds of so many, with a stream of social sharing on websites, blogs, Flikr, etc. Now filmmaker Danny Cooke has created a brilliant time-lapse video of the whole project so you can relive it … Read more
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis is a stunning short film from London based directors Luke White and Remi Weekes, otherwise known as their collective force Tell No One. The film starring Anna Friel and Ed Speleers retells Titian’s Metamorphosis for The National Gallery, London. The film coincides with the current Metamorphosis: Titian 2012 exhibition that features new work by … Read more
Not in the Corners at Maria Stenfors
Not in the Corners currently at Maria Stenfors in London sees a group exhibition featuring film, sculpture, drawing, painting and print. The exhibition presents artworks that address the inseparability of the personal from the political, exploring the ground between the private act of artistic creation and its collective resonance in the public realm. Michelle Deignan … Read more
Chicago gets Monopoly street art makeover by Bored
Chicago’s Logan Square district has been turned into a 3-dimensional Monopoly game by the street artist Bored. The humourous take on the classic game has taken locals by surprise and helped to bring a smile to a city full of art and especially, street art. Bored is taking a tongue-in-cheek look at modern street art, … Read more
