Sculpture
March 12, 2015

Italian Job-Inspired Bus Sculpture Hangs Off the Edge of Peninsula Hotel Hong Kong

Does this make anyone else feel a little queasy? As part of this year's Art Basel in Hong Kong, artist Richard Wilson has perched a full-sized bus sculpture on the edge of Hong Kong's Peninsula Hotel. The work is inspired by the 1969 British heist movie The Italian Job when Michael Caine and his gang of gold robbers hang precariously off a mountain top. (See the “cliffhanger” clip, here.)

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Design
March 11, 2015

Innovative University Building in Singapore That Has No Corners

With the rising popularity of online classes and hybrid learning methods, administrators at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University realized that students won't come to campus unless they want to. That's why the university commissioned this magnificent, newly completed “Learning Hub” designed by Heatherwick Studio. From the outside, the hub resembles a towering group of giant telescopes. Inside, the corridors are scalloped mazes that function as both walkways and balconies.

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Art
March 10, 2015

Traditional Rugs Recreated with Technological Glitches by Faig Ahmed

Baku-based artist Faig Ahmed combines the beauty of traditional Azerbaijani rugs with technological glitches in his on-going series of contemporary carpets. Using the artistic qualities of these tapestries, he disassembles their conventional structure to rearrange and fragment it. The result often resembles a rug that doubles as a fascinating modern sculpture. Many of Ahmed's carpets have “flaws” in their designs that create the illusion of a printing or rendering error.

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Art
March 4, 2015

Interactive Art Gallery Allows Visitors to Become Part of an Illusion

This unique gallery lets visitors do more than just admire great works of art – they get to play with it, too. At Art in Island, an interactive gallery that occupies a former bus station in the Philippines, visitors can step inside paintings and take pictures with the optical illusions. Each piece offers guests a different experience. At some stations, people can climb over the picture frame as if they're in the portrait.

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My Modern Met

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