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- 'What small towns have to do': How local co-ops are reviving country Victoria Sat, 19 Dec 20, 9:24amRegional communities tired of watching businesses pack up and move out are increasingly buying and running pubs, general stores and post offices to keep their towns alive.
- Pittsburghs MuseumLab for children achieves LEED Gold Fri, 15 May 20, 2:30amMuseumLab, one of Pittsburgh’s most creative and innovative youth learning spaces, has earned LEED Gold a year after the project was completed in the recently renovated 1890 Carnegie Library, which is located in the city’s...
- This modern art museum was once a cheese factory in Arkansas Tue, 3 Mar 20, 2:30amIn Bentonville, Arkansas, a giant factory that once processed cheese for Kraft Foods has been given new life as The Momentary, a modern art museum satellite to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art...
- Carsten Hller's giant spiraling slides explore emotional links between people and plants Tue, 13 Mar 18, 12:11amGerman artist Carsten Höller recently announced plans to build two giant spiraling slides in Florence, Italy - and the installation will research the emotional link between people and plants...
- Controversial artist seeks to build a UFO-like house near Edvard Munchs studio Tue, 6 Feb 18, 11:45pmFor the last years of his life, world-renowned artist Edvard Munch lived in a remote cabin in a forest outside of Oslo, where the solitude helped him produce hundreds of paintings and drawings...
- Renzo Piano to convert a Moscow power station into a solar-powered arts center Sat, 17 Oct 15, 2:10amThe two-hectare redevelopment site is located on the Moskva River in the city’s Red October district and will focus on the now-defunct GES2 energy power station that was built in the early 1900s...
- Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s The Broad Art Museum to open later this month in Los Angeles Mon, 7 Sep 15, 11:00pmLos Angeles’ Grand Avenue is about to get even grander. The Broad contemporary art museum will soon open its doors on September 20, with free public admission. Located next to Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall, the...
- Atelier YokYok weaves ethereal blue tunnels inside a medieval cloister garden Thu, 11 Jun 15, 6:00pmThe four enclosed string tunnels run diagonally from the corners of the garden to the central circular garden that’s framed on four sides by a string fence...
- Norwegian artist fills an entire Oslo gallery with a huge grassy landscape Fri, 5 Dec 14, 3:09amPer Kristian Nygård's works explore the possibilities of space. His latest grassy installation merges an organized architectural environment with the organic nature of landscapes. The large piece inhabits the gallery space...
- FR-EE Unveils Dynamic Design for Latin American Art Museum in Miami Wed, 3 Dec 14, 8:00pmThe 90,000-square-foot LAAM will be located within a residential complex along Biscayne Boulevard and will serve as a meeting area and as the main access point to the apartments for residents...
- Heneghan Peng Architects Wins Competition to Design Moscow’s New National Center for Contemporary Arts Tue, 31 Dec 13, 1:00amHeneghan Peng Architects stacked and staggered multiple museum galleries to create a vertical focal point on the surrounding flat and naturalistic landscape...
- Florentijn Hofman Unveils Gigantic 150,000-Ton Pink Aardvark in the Netherlands! Sat, 21 Sep 13, 2:00amThe huge animal figure was inspired by the aardvark-a nocturnal species indigenous to Africa that is also known as the “African antbear” or “anteater.” The Arnhem Zoo is the only place in The Netherlands where this...
- The World’s Largest Inflatable Rubber Duck Sails Into Hong Kong Fri, 3 May 13, 12:09amThe world’s largest inflatable rubber duck sailed into the Victoria Harbor in Hong Kong yesterday. The 46-foot-tall and 55-foot-long floating sculpture, which is the work of Dutch conceptual artist Florentijin Hofman, was...
- Enormous Beehive Made of Recycled Plastic Bags Dangles at Rome’s Museum of Contemporary Art Thu, 21 Feb 13, 3:15amIn the 16th century, Italy produced Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel, but now many of the world’s art museums are filled with trash. Not any old trash, mind you. Pascale Marthine Tayou’s latest installation...
- Enormous Beehive of Plastic Bags Dangles at Rome’s Museum of Contemporary Art Thu, 21 Feb 13, 1:07amIt is sometimes hard to reconcile the changes our society has undergone since the industrial revolution. In the 16th century, Italy produced Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel, but now so many of our art museums are filled...