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Tear It Down, They Said. He Just Kept Building.
Read more: Tear It Down, They Said. He Just Kept Building.The structure teeters over fields of knee-high grass, looking like a cross between a camping tent and a giant wedding cake. Eleven stories of dark red wooden rooms, diminishing in size as they ascend, balance atop one another, seemingly held…
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Groups Build Parks From Parking Spaces
Read more: Groups Build Parks From Parking SpacesOriginally a project of San Francisco-based art and design studio Rebar, Park(ing) Day participants from Tucson to Tehran set up temporary installations ranging from simple unrolled sod to art galleries and even free health clinics. “In urban centers around the…
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London’s “Free Butt Plug Catalogue” Confronts Hostile Architecture
Read more: London’s “Free Butt Plug Catalogue” Confronts Hostile ArchitectureHostile architecture—urban design features like ground spikes that deter the homeless from lying down or slanted benches that prevent lingering—inscribes exclusion into our streets. In response, a Chinese artist will launch the Free Butt Plug Catalogue, an art-activism project that…
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Bed-Stuy Fish Pond
Read more: Bed-Stuy Fish PondThe Bed-Stuy Aquarium (also known as the Hancock Street Bed-Stuy Aquarium) is a makeshift goldfish pond located on a sidewalk in the Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn neighborhood of New York City. The pond, originally formed by a puddle from a leaky fire…
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Inside Out Project
Read more: Inside Out ProjectAfter winning the TED Prize on March 2, 2011, the French-artist JR launched the Inside Out Project, in his first TED Talk. Using his own artistic practice as inspiration, this participatory platform helps individuals and communities to make a statement…
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スーパー☆ラット (Super Rats)
Read more: スーパー☆ラット (Super Rats)Chim↑Pom, a Tokyo-based art collective, garnered significant attention with their provocative project “Super Rat,” which debuted in 2011. This work involved capturing urban rats from Tokyo’s bustling Shibuya district, taxidermying them, and transforming them into real-life representations of Pikachu, the…
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Bed Stuy Aquarium
Read more: Bed Stuy AquariumThe Bed-Stuy “aquarium” is back. The neighborhood’s beloved sidewalk fish pond was resurrected this week — in an act of defiance that comes just five days after the city cemented over the original and left the neighborhood’s goldfish to die.…
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Artists Tried to Activate Voters With Billboard Art. Did It Work?
Read more: Artists Tried to Activate Voters With Billboard Art. Did It Work?On Nov. 6, the day after the presidential election, the artist Hank Willis Thomas was at his studio in Brooklyn. His production assistants were poring over tables strewed with blobby red white and blue silk-screen prints of the words “Fragile/…
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Be Clean!
Read more: Be Clean!On October 16, 1964, the artist collective Hi Red Center, clad in sanitation masks and white uniforms and wielding small brooms and toothbrushes, spent several hours meticulously cleaning the streets of the Tokyo district of Ginza, amid the hustle and…
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Bed-Stuy Aquarium
Read more: Bed-Stuy AquariumThe Bed-Stuy Aquarium (also known as the Hancock Street Bed-Stuy Aquarium) is a makeshift goldfish pond located on a sidewalk in the Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn neighborhood of New York City. The pond, originally formed by a puddle from a leaky fire…