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Artists make childhood dreams a reality with an interactive land submarine
Dec 1st, 2011 at 3:00PM:
While this submarine may not go underwater, it certainly has a lot of features. Five Ton Crane, a San Francisco Bay Area collective arts group, has created a life-sized vessel called The Nautilus in West Oakland, California, that not only has built-in iPad technology, a library, GPS navigation, hydraulic drive controls, a night vision periscope, and a full bar, but also the ability to defend ...
Remembering the fallen
Nov 11th, 2011 at 11:00AM:
Today is Veterans Day, also known as Remembrance Day and Armistice Day because in 1918, at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, World War One ended.
For four years the nations of the world had torn each other apart. The Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed, the Ottoman Empire was mortally wounded, Germany's Kaiser's fell and so did Russia's Czar. The world changed forever ...Photo of the day - Under the Glow dome
Nov 10th, 2011 at 5:00PM:
Today's Photo of the Day is from the Dutch city of Eindhoven, where the GLOW festival of light is going on now through Saturday. Eindhoven is the hometown of electronics company Philips, made a multinational brand by Anton Philips who is the subject of the sculpture here. Each year, the town hosts a forum of light-based art and architecture installations, performances and events; in 2011, the ...Serial public art around the world
Oct 17th, 2011 at 4:30PM:
Public art exhibitions featuring a common sculpture that is multiplied and then embellished by various artists have been popping up in cities worldwide since 1998. Artistic director Walter Knapp first came up with the idea and convinced artists to dot Zurich, Switzerland with a collection of artfully-decorated lions. Within a year, Chicago businessman Peter Hanig had taken the idea and ran ...Exhibit at Austrian Cultural Forum in New York gives a new perspective on beauty
Oct 11th, 2011 at 4:30PM: The Austrian Cultural Forum in New York is currently hosting Beauty Contest, an exhibit featuring 20 international artists focusing their work on their interpretation of beauty. Some of the artists call upon their own experiences being a gay/lesbian, transgendered, or exhibitionist living in eastern Europe, while others comment on beauty's evolution in terms of society. Visitors can expect these ...Vorticism: avant-garde art at the Tate Britain, London
Jun 15th, 2011 at 1:00PM: In the years before the outbreak of World War One, European artists developed a variety of different styles to reflect the pace of change and industrialization in what used to be a traditional continent.
Cubism and Futurism were two of the biggest movements. One of the briefest and most vibrant was Vorticism. The Vorticists started around 1913 and focused on the hard lines and quick pace of the ...Giant yellow teddy bear bound for New York City
Apr 6th, 2011 at 12:05PM:
Visitors to New York City this spring should be on the lookout for a new landmark: a giant yellow teddy bear, bronzed and 23 feet high. The 35,000 pound untitled (Lamp/Bear) sculpture was created by New York-based Swiss artist Urs Fischer, one of three made in 2005/2006. The button-eyed bear sits against a lamp, which turns on above the bear's head to keep him lit at night.
The behemoth bear ...Photo of the day - Harbin Ice And Snow Festival, China
Feb 24th, 2011 at 4:00PM:
Today's Photo of the Day comes from Harbin, China's annual Ice And Snow Sculpture Festival. The festival starts in January and lasts about a month, or as long as the temperatures stay low enough not to melt the huge sculptures and buildings. Flickr user Bernard-SD took the shot on a -28C night. Sculptures are made with hi-tech methods like lasers, as well as lo-tech methods like lanterns ...Three art fairs in Madrid this month
Feb 10th, 2011 at 2:00PM: Madrid has always been a favorite destination for art lovers, and in February you have three more reasons to go. Later this month the Spanish capital will host three contemporary art fairs.
Art Madrid is the biggest, with 45,000 visitors last year. Now in its sixth year, Art Madrid is hosting 89 exhibition spaces that will showcase the collections of 60 art galleries from across Spain and ...More Roman heritage from Mérida, Spain
Dec 30th, 2010 at 9:30AM: In the Extremaduran city of Mérida, it feels like at any moment you're going to turn a corner and meet an ancient Roman. Sometimes that almost happens.
This fellow was at the Museo Nacional de Arte Romano, a world-class museum featuring Roman statues, mosaics, and other artifacts. Built by the famous architect Rafael Moneo Vallés, it looks like an old Roman basilica, with lofty ...Art thought destroyed by the Nazis is discovered
Nov 10th, 2010 at 9:30AM:
The Nazis called it "Degenerate Art", works that didn't conform to their taste for Germanic propaganda. Anything too experimental, anything too avantgarde, anything too Jewish, got locked away or destroyed.
Before they did that, however, they held the art up to public ridicule at a 1937 exhibition called Degenerate Art. Thousands of Germans went to this exhibition, although it's hard to say ...Eerie underwater sculpture finished in Caribbean
Nov 1st, 2010 at 2:00PM:
If you go diving off Isla Mujeres near Cancun, Mexico, you'll see more than the usual coral reefs and colorful tropical fish. You'll see a ghostly crowd of people standing on the bottom of the sea.
Silent Evolution is the creation of Jason de Caires Taylor, who specializes in underwater sculptures cast from real people. Taylor uses inert, PH-neutral concrete that doesn't pollute the water. ...The East Highland Way day six: strange sculptures and cursed castles
Aug 27th, 2010 at 10:30AM:
It's the last day of my hike along the East Highland Way and the trail has given me a special wake-up treat, namely this view of Loch Insh in the early morning. I love this photo because it captures the most alluring aspect of Scottish lochs--the way their placid waters reflect and soften the light. Lochs are the magic mirrors of the Highlands, capturing the surrounding trees and hills and ...Modern art gallery opens in Rome
May 31st, 2010 at 2:00PM: The ancient monuments of Rome have a trendy new neighbor.
The National Museum of the XXI Century Arts, popularly known as the Maxxi, has finally opened after a controversial five-year delay and ballooning construction costs that eventually topped $200 million.
Award-winning Iraqi-born architect Zaha Hadid is responsible for the funky building design, which houses 27,000 sq/m (291,000 sq ft.) ...See the Museum of Modern Art in two minutes
Apr 19th, 2010 at 4:30PM:
Ever visited New York City's Museum of Modern Art? It's quite possibly the world's greatest museum for art lovers - harboring numerous masterpieces from painters including Picasso, Pollack and Warhol, among others. But it's also quite overwhelming. If you've never been, prepare to be overwhelmed by thousands of different works across multiple floors, ranging from sculpture to photography to ...
Five art exhibitions you must see this year
Jan 6th, 2010 at 10:00AM: Art lovers, take note, 2010 is shaping up to be a great year for exhibitions. Here are five of the best, but there are plenty more than these!
Tokyo
It's hard to beat Japanese art for sheer naturalistic beauty, and the Tokyo National Museum has an extensive collection of the best. See the work of one of the great Japanese masters in Hasegawa Tohaku: 400th Memorial Retrospective. This painter, ...Underwater sculpture garden helps save Cancun's coral reefs
Nov 27th, 2009 at 11:30AM: Cancun's famous coral reefs have been hit hard lately by storms and pollution, and the Mexican government has come up with an interesting way to let the reefs heal while still attracting visitors. They're creating an underwater sculpture garden that will bring back the tourists and encourage growth of new coral. It's the brainchild of the Mexican government and artist Jason de Caires Taylor, who ...Spectacular summer art season in Madrid
Jun 5th, 2009 at 10:30AM: Madrid is one of the art capitals of Europe, and each season the city's big three art museums host major exhibitions. This summer looks like it's going to be an especially good one.
Perhaps the biggest show of the season is the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum's show on Matisse. Running from June 9 to September 20, it focuses on the work the famous painter and sculptor did in the middle part of his ...Photo of the Day (11-19-08)
Nov 19th, 2008 at 6:00PM:
Yes, this is an elephant balanced on its trunk. David and Chi who captured this image at the Musée and Domaine nationales of the Castle of Fontainebleau in France said this sculpture was part of a larger exhibit. What a wonderful use of a castle. The exhibit looks like it may have been like a trip to some strange wonderland.
Unfortunately, the exhibit ended on November 17. My ...Photo of the Day (9/18/08)
Sep 18th, 2008 at 9:00PM: Today's photo of the day comes from Flickr user pirano who captured this picture, titled Fist and Rose in Oslo, Norway. You might think the sculptor was trying to make a political statement, but from the accounts in the comments of this site, he apparently never intended for it to be political. Pirano did a nice job of using the sun to highlight the sculpture, giving it a fantastic glowing cast. ...
