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gordon young: the comedy carpet, blackpool
art | 10.11.11
gordon young's comedy carpet, one of the UK's biggest pieces of public art, was officially opened in blackpool today.
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antony gormley: habitat
art | 10.31.10
the house-sized sculpture is constructed from 57 welded stainless steel boxes that are 1 cm thick. the 24 foot-tall, 37,000 pound sculpture takes the form of a crouching man.
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maurizio cattelan : omnia munda mundis
art | 09.26.10
maurizio cattelan's 'middle finger' arrived today in milan's piazza affari, in front of the italian stock exchange building. the public monument was donated to milan but immediately refused by the city's administrat...
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rent collection courtyard
art | 09.06.10
in 1965, a group of students and teachers at the sichuan fine arts institute in chongqing were commissioned by the provincial government of sichuan to create a series of 103 life-sized sculptures depicting the expl...
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shortlisted proposals for london's fourth pli
art | 09.05.10
models of the shortlisted proposals for london's fourth plinth commission went on display in the foyer of nearby st-martin-in-the-fields church. the proposals include a giant blue cockerel, a floating fictional moun...
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international sculpture biennale of carrara 2
art | 08.13.10
the theme of this year's international sculpture biennale of cararra is the 'monument', or rather the radical process of de-monumentalization which has freed sculpture from any celebratory function. artists such as...
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choi + shine architects: the land of giants
architecture | 08.12.10
making only minor alterations to well established steel-framed tower design, the architects created a series of variable pylons which become a landmark in itself.
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using 'game of life' cellular automaton, this installation represents the emergence of self-organizing systems. the discrete mo...

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kehinde wiley: the world stage

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the installation portrays young men of varied ethnic descent living in israel, depicted against backgrounds containing symbols ...

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the new facility is designed to balance the neutrality of an exhibition space with the distinctiveness of a building in park c...

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