Powerless Structures


At 2 tons, the sold bronze & gold plated sculpture "Powerless Structures, Fig. 101" by Elmgreen and Dragset is the latest work to find itself on the fourth plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square.
[Kuriostias]
*see also Fabio VialeJoost Gourdiaan, Harmen De Hoop

Audrey



"I'm not sure when the mural above first appeared in Vancouver, British Columbia. But I recently noticed a QR code painted over an offending tag that had been sprayed on the mural. Remarkably, the QR Code takes you to an image of the mural before it was vandalized." 

[Wooster Collective]
*see also Sweza, FinalFrontier, Michele PredBernhard Hopfengärtner

Blinking City

"Blinking City stencil. Pattern based on a collage of several Hutong neighborhoods of Beijing, stenciled onto a wall of a dilapidated courtyard house in Xianyukou district, located in the core of the city."
Instant Hutong
[Notcot]
 

Tissue

Lisa Nilsson creates anatomical cross sections of the human body by rolling and shaping narrow strips of paper in a 
technique called quilling.
[Laughing Squid/All Things Paper]


































Urban eXperiment

"The UX (Urban eXperiment) is an largely secret underground organization that improves hidden corners of Paris. Their works have included restoring the Pantheon clock, building a cinema, complete with bar and restaurant, underneath the Trocadéro, restoring medieval crypts, and staging plays and readings in monuments after dark."
Wired
[Ektopia]