Art

August 11, 2016

Brazilian Graffiti Artist Paints World’s Largest Street Mural for the Rio Olympics

Days before the Olympics began in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian street artist Eduardo Kobra decided to set his own world record for the largest mural created by a single person. The mural, which he calls Las Etnias (The Ethnicities), reaches a total height of 50 feet and measures over 32,000 square feet. Kobra illustrated five larger-than-life faces from five continents—corresponding to the five rings of the Olympics.

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August 8, 2016

Magical “Liquid Shard” Canopy Shimmers and Undulates Above LA’s Pershing Square

This dazzling new installation is bringing much-needed magic to a stark concrete park in Los Angeles. The two-layered silver canopy comprises 15,000 square feet of filmy mylar strips, between 15 and 115 feet above the city’s populated Pershing Square. The silver filaments undulate overhead, glimmering in the sunlight and casting dappled, dancing shadows below viewers’ feet.

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July 31, 2016

Life-Size Copper Tree Sculptures Immortalize the Beauty of Demolished Forests

As the world’s environment and natural resources continue to rapidly diminish, Lee Gil Rae constructs enormous forests of copper to capture the beauty and intricacy of trees in permanence. His most recent gallery, Pine Tree, contains a surreal, leafless forest that one can meander through, with spiraling branches that appear organic and lures viewers to follow the curves and notches of aged tree bark.

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