Art

October 9, 2012

Massive Pencil Mural Wins $200,000 Art Prize

Drumrolls, please. After more than 47,000 voters cast 412,560 votes, the ArtPrize 2012 winner was finally announced last Friday. Taking home the grand prize of $200,000 was Adonna Khare, an elementary school art teacher turned stay-at-home mom who created a massive mural of a menagerie of animals all by pencil.

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October 4, 2012

Haunting 3D Projection of Giant Faces on Trees

Tonight is the last night to see a haunting artwork at Hyde Park South in Sydney, Australia. For the last few weeks, contemporary artist Craig Walsh has been showing Emergence, an amazing projection where the park's trees come alive as faces emerge from the leaves and branches. Paying homage to the park's history as a meeting place for civic unrest, protest and direction action, three faces tell interesting stories about civic involvement.

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October 3, 2012

First Look: Gabriel Dawe’s Stunning New Thread Art in Italy

Artist Gabriel Dawe is giving us the exclusive, first look at his incredible new installation that will open to the public starting October 6 in Como, Italy. As part of Miniartextil, an annual exhibition of contemporary art, Dawe created Plexus no. 19, a stunning thread installation that's beautifully spread across two balconies in the atrium of a historic villa.

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October 1, 2012

Two Gigantic Slow Slugs Made of 40,000 Bags

If you were in Angers, France in September you may have run straight into two enormous, colorful looking slugs made out of 40,000 plastic bags. The artist behind them is Florentijn Hofman, famous for his giant yellow duck, big yellow rabbit and enormous monkey made of flip flops. He strikes again, this time in France, where his message is a bit more serious.

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