French designer Arnaud Lapierre in collaboration with car manufacturer Audi has created 'Ring', a public artwork that was showcased at the 2011 Foire Internationale D'Art Contemporain
Recognised Danish artist Olafur Eliasson recently opened the first showcase of his work in South America titled 'Your Body of Work'.
“Immersive Surfaces” was a publicly presented video projection installation onto the Manhattan Bridge in Brooklyn during the Dumbo Arts Festival from September 23 – 25, 2011. The multi-part video projection, created by over 20 international artists and curators, will cover over 30,000 sq. feet of the Manhattan Bridge Anchorage, Archway and the surrounding cityscape, through the use of cutting-edge video mapping technology.
French artist Serge Selat has designed a mirrored maze for a touring exhibition of China that will visit 10 cities over 3 months. Originally installed in Shanghai's Westgate Mall, the installation doubled as a showroom for sponser Buick motors to showcase their vehicles.
Internationally acclaimed artist Janet Echelman's striking sculpture Tsunami 1.26 is currently suspended above George street, Sydney and will be on display until the 23rd of October. The artwork, which was previously showcased at the Biennale of the Americas in Denver, is the largest of many lace works from the Powerhouse Museum's Love Lace exhibition and also forms part of Art & About Sydney.
Curtain call, an installation by Ron Arad is now open at the Roundhouse Performing Arts Centre in London until August 29. The interactive work takes the form of a cylindrical screen which mimics the shape of the Roundhouse and is a platform for films and live performances by various artists.
Zaha Hadid's Mobile Art Pavilion has been donated to the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris by CHANEL. The pavilion is now permanently positioned outside the institute, after a world tour that began in 2008.
Dutch artist Iepe and the anonymous crew have transformed a major intersection in Berlin into a giant piece of street art. The crew attached hinged buckets onto bicycles and unloaded 500 litres of colourful water-based environmentally-friendly paint onto the road which was subsequently spread by over 2000 vehicles.
Design collaborative Asensio_Mah, together with students from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design have created Surface Deep, an outdoor installation at the entrance of the Reford Gardens' International Garden Festival in Quebec.
The 9th annual London Design Festival will take place at various locations across London from the 17th to the 25th September 2011. This years event, entitled The March of the Makers, will center around the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) exhibition with 13 commissioned installations to be displayed throughout the museum. These are some of our favorites so far: