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Public Art: Iconic MegaMurals
The border city of Windsor is the site of the National Mural Symposium 2012, a professional development gathering for mural artists, public art consultants and creative developers of community space....
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Billowing in Vancouver
A 745-foot sculpture made soft and billowy by internationally renowned artist Janet Echelman is rising on the Vancouver waterfront in preparation for the 30th annual TED conference in that city this...
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Kanva: Architecture & Public Art
KANVA, the Montreal firm behind this innovative public installation, has just been awarded the 2015 Emerging Architectural Practice Award by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. Entre Les...
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Canvas: Get to know BGL
The National Gallery of Canada is offering this celebratory limited edition print by BGL, the Quebec City art collective chosen to represent Canada at the Venice Biennale, May 9 to Nov. 22, 2015....
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Calder: Tapestries & Gouaches
One of the joys of living in Chicago was the city’s legendary public art, big sprawling pieces by Miro, Picasso, Henry Moore and especially Alexander Calder. Coming upon Calder’s abstract Flamingo...
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Live Action Sculpture: Ill-fated Love
This Muslim boy and Georgian girl play out the tragedy of their ill-fated love in live action in a 10-minute spectacle every night in the Georgian seaside town of Batumi. Tamara Kvesitadze is the...
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Public Art: Street Mural Style
That’s one of the principals of Gyva Grafika Studio in front of a work called “Domino.” He’s not actually stepping on concrete tablets. It’s a mural created by the design team that re-faces abandoned...
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The Blue Cabin – Floating Art
It’s been painstaking work, but the former cabin of a West Coast artist duo is being restored and relocated in Vancouver to serve as floating space for a new Artist Residency. It’s a fascinating story...
View ArticleJanet Echelman – Floating Current
Janet Echelman, whose billowy works of structural art have risen over Vancouver and dozens of other cities worldwide, has installed her first sculpture to be suspended over a street, in Columbus, Ohio....
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Live Action Sculpture: Ill-fated Love
This Muslim boy and Georgian girl play out the tragedy of their ill-fated love in live action in a 10-minute spectacle every night in the Georgian seaside town of Batumi. Tamara Kvesitadze is the...
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Janet Echelman – Floating Current
Janet Echelman, whose billowy works of structural art have risen over Vancouver and dozens of other cities worldwide, has installed her first sculpture to be suspended over a street, in Columbus,...
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Lester Coloma’s public art is gripping
Artists who make their living painting murals for public buildings, in restaurants, and on outdoor walls are among the most under-appreciated but beloved artists around. Hamilton artist Lester Coloma...
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Joshua Kalfa – Gifts of Public Sculpture
One of Toronto’s attributes is its endless supply of surprising public art. This one – a glorious suspended stairway – is inside a building at 36 Toronto Street downtown, created by sculptor Joshua...
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Couch Monster – how discarded furniture became an elephant
This is a look back at how Brian Jungen‘s monumental elephant sculpture made out of couches, and then bronzed, came to be. It was the first-ever public art commission by the Art Gallery of Ontario....
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