Category Archives: Art/Craft

The ‘urban interventions’ of French artist Benedetto Bufalino: from cars transformed into pizza overs to mobile disco mixer trucks and aquarium mini-diggers.  Bufalino installs much of his work in public places, inviting unsuspecting passers-by to engage with it.

More here.

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Tele Present Wind  by artist David Bowen currently on display at Azkuna Zentroa in Bilbao, Spain.

To wit: 126 plant stalks attached to x/y tilting mechanisms moving in perfect synchronicity with a similar plant outdoors fitted with an accelerometer. 

Make of it what you will.

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ADA – a large inflatable ‘drawing tool’ created by Polish artist Karina Smigla-Bobinski.

To wit, a helium filled balloon studded with charcoal tipped spikes with which visitors had fun over the course of a week, marking up the white floor and walls of a room at Muffathalle in Berlin.

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Eighty² – a limited-edition fine art print by Scott Park

As distinct from his also excellent and previously mistakenly posted (apologies for the confusion) celebration of women in TV and movies  – Hall Of Heroes (below).

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A 9 meter tall Dalmation balances a real taxi (a donated Toyota Prius sans engine but with working lights and windscreen wipers) on its nose in a new public art sculpture by Donald Lipski in New York, designed to welcome visitors to the Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital.

In fairness.

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