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

Step By Step

Nefelejcs


"Beautiful old buildings are demolished for replacing them with new ugly buildings made of cheap and bad materials. The idea was to create a memorial painting of a demolished building. "
 Merge Invisible 
(Torz Merev)
[Wooster Collective]
*see also 1:1, Escif, EVOL, OX, James Reynolds & Jeremy Novy

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]