Johannesburg gets work by major SAfrican artists

South Africa's bustling commercial capital paused for art Wednesday, with an unveiling ceremony for a monumental sculpture on a downtown traffic island.

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Art Project Puts Waterfalls in NYC River

Following the artistic and economic success of "The Gates," which festooned Central Park paths with orange fabric, the city is hosting a new exhibition to erect four giant waterfalls on the East River.

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The building is furnished, but the beds and sofas hang off its walls. That's not good enough for frustrated government officials who want the fire-damaged Hugo Hotel at Howard and Sixth streets demolished and replaced with a new building.

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This is officially the Best Bike Rack of all time. (see picture after the jump)

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In the early 1990s, twin brothers Matthew and Daniel Tobin conceived of Urban Art Projects, a workshop capable of delivering art objects to suit almost any site, scale and subject.

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Oculus, #13 (1998). A gorgeous stone mosaic found on the subway walls throughout NYC's Chambers Street station complex (A, C & E trains); also, there is a stone and glass floor mosaic at Park Place entrance, which connects to this station via a tunnel.

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"Metro -- Friday evening", detail 4b (Installed: 23 November 2007). Rautatientorin Metroasema (Central Railway Station) Subway Art, Helsinki, Finland.

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One & Other will see 2,400 people from across the UK invited to stand for an hour each on the plinth in the shadow of Nelson's Column in central London over 100 days.

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Map of the World, detail 6. Stone and glass floor mosaic at NYC's Park Place entrance, which connects to the WTC (Chambers Street) station via a tunnel; also there are hundreds of stone mosaic eyes on the walls throughout the Chambers Street station complex (A & C trains).

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I first saw crateman perched on a silo, about 30 metres off the ground. A robot-like figure made entirely of milk crates; he had grey feet, a green body and a yellow head.

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Before this winter's first frosts, a steel monster will creep across the debris around the old Tees Dock in Middlesbrough. At 164ft, it will stand almost three times the Angel's height and its 360ft span will stretch the length of several city streets.

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Art adores a vacuum. That's why styles, genres and mediums left for dead by one generation are often revived by subsequent ones. In the 1960s and '70s public sculpture was contemporary art's foremost fatality — deader than painting actually.

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What is the point and purpose of public art? Once, it was clear: you were a general or an admiral and if you won a big enough victory you got a bronze statue stuck on a plinth.

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Last Saturday, April 12 in Orlando, Florida, young professionals, families, urban dwellers and art enthusiasts gathered together to participate in The Great Public Art Challenge.

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The southwestern Ohio town's quirky public art is a conversation piece. Visitors are taking pictures with the giant, multicoloured shell. Residents are climbing ladders and sewing more pieces on the sweater.

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The big crowds are gone from Barack Obama's campaign office on the edge of downtown Houston. But an iconic souvenir from his hard-fought primary will remain.

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Antony Gormley on modern public art.

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This month in Phoenix, a tempest of controversy almost deflated a work of public art designed to float above a downtown park: a flimsy sculpture, the outcry went, should not cost the city $2.4 million.

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City officials struggle to figure out what to do with a bronze Mexican revolutionary, meanwhile it holds the door at a "money transfer" business on Lake St.

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Some pretty and iventive sand creatiions.

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Similar to "Cows on Parade" featured in Chicago in 1999 and in Zurich, Switzerland in 1998, CoolGlobes aims to increase awareness about global climate change and inspire action.

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Ok, I've seen a lot of brilliant work of engineering and art, but never before have something so awespiring and amazingly hybrid looking appeared in front of my two eyes.

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Public art is any artwork anywhere the public can see it. It's the memorial statue of the AC/DC singer Bon Scott in Fremantle. It's Victor Cusack's gigantic water feature, Man, Time and the Environment, in Hornsby. It's a cast-iron gate for a child-care centre in Glebe.

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A requirement that developers in Naples incorporate art into public and private buildings or contribute $1 per square foot into an arts fund passed 5-2 Wednesday, despite opposition from two councilmen who branded it a tax on developers.

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This is another reason why I must go to America Del Sur.

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