The First-Ever Evening Art Installation in NYC's Union Square Will Debut in February

www.timeout.com/newyork: Sure, those festive holiday lights have officially burnt out, but that doesn't mean things have to be dark and dreary this winter: the Union Square Partnership (USP) is graciously adding some light and liveliness to the darkest time of the year with its new interactive art installation, "Patterned Behavior" by MASARY Studios, on view every evening (dusk to 10pm) from now through Tuesday, February 17.

Fragile public art leads to unexpected costs

Boing Boing: Amelia Vanderhorst, 19, was charged with property damage in Mount Gambier Magistrates Court in South Australia after applying googly eyes to a local sculpture.

There's a Massive Pink Carriage in NYC's Times Square Right Now. Here is Why.

www.timeout.com/newyork: In a city filled with buses, subways, cabs and pedicabs, there's a new kind of transit in town—but you can't ride this one, just admire it. A 30-foot pink carriage drawn by white plastic horses carrying Hello Kitty backpacks now sits in the middle of Times Square as part of an art installation by Yvette Mayorga called Magic Grasshopper.

City Moves Ahead On Big Slate Of Public-Art Projects

90.5 WESA: The city this week began accepting applications from artists for $500,000 in projects in its five regional parks, including Frick, Schenley, Riverview, Highland and Emerald View; those funds are part of an Allegheny Regional Asset District (ARAD) Art in Parks grant. City officials said another $300,000 will go toward other projects later this year.

Enormous Flowers Dangle in the Palacio de Cristal in New Exhibit

mymodernmet.com: Kosovar artist Petrit Halilaj has created a fantastical, yet deeply personal, installation for his first solo exhibition at the Reina Sofía's Palacio de Cristal in Madrid. Inspired by the elaborate courtship rituals of bowerbirds, who are known for decorating structures to attract a mate, he's strung up enormous flowers inside the glass conservatory.

Tim Burton Launches 'Lost Vegas' Art Exhibit in the Desert City

Hollywood Reporter: Tim Burton spent a lot of time in Las Vegas as a kid. Growing up in Burbank, California, he frequently visited the desert paradise with his parents, and it would later be heavily referenced in his work. "Every element of grand Las Vegas is part of his memory: the Dunes, the Landmark of course, the Aladdin, the Sands," says Jenny He, Burton's curator, who for 10 years has spearheaded his museum exhibitions, which have toured the world and drawn millions of people hungry for a glimpse into the frightmaster auteur's creative process.

Adam Savage Learns About Smithsonian Exhibits' Installation Process!

Tested: Door size, load-in route, sloping floors or walls ... These are all reasons why Smithsonian Exhibits works on installation before they even START a build. Adam Savage gets the full rundown of the complicated exhibit install process from head of production Chris Emo.

Masary Studios Sound Sculpture Interactive Light & Sound Installation

www.livedesignonline.com:
Masary Studios in Boston, MA, is a multi-disciplinary collective of artists that creates one-of-a-kind experiences where visuals and sound intersect. Each project is built individually, comprising such elements as original music, video projection mapping, interactivity, and sometimes even live performance. In other words, they are doing some really cool stuff!

Immersed in the Immersive Installations | Projection & Illusions

www.livedesignonline.com: During the past week, I engaged in a binge-visit marathon and attended five of the new pop-up environments located in New York. My aim was to experience the role that technology has in this quickly expanding market catering to the Instagram-hungry public always eager to capture themselves in noteworthy, quirky, or hyped environments. While the technology was certainly present, front and center, the most significant element of these endeavors is the real estate factor.

Venice VR: ‘These Sleepless Nights’ by Gabo Arora and Edward Saatchi

noproscenium.com: The Venice Film Festival could not go amiss without the Magic Leap One making an appearance this year. A good thing, then, as the new augmented reality glasses were featured in two interesting projects to boot — one of which is These Sleepless Nights, a documentation in AR and director Gabo Arora’s latest work.

MuseumLab Carves Space for Radical Reinvention

Green Building Alliance: Tucked beneath the stately granite entrance to the world’s first Carnegie Library, an unassuming sign marks a new kind of place. Neither an exhumed monument nor a flashy modernist sculpture, MuseumLabTM makes art from decay, sculpting its history into a breathtaking demonstration of innovation and ingenuity. MuseumLab is GBA’s 2019 Vanguard award winner, and true to its name, the project is a perpetual experiment in how we provoke, evoke, and ultimately inspire.

ella + pitr break their own record for world's largest mural in paris

www.designboom.com: french street art duo ella & pitr complete their newest mural in paris, rendered at a scale covering 25,000 square meters. the team is known to make use of immense areas of urban space as a canvas for their work, and has held the record for painting the largest mural in the world since 2015 with the 21,000 square-meter work in norway, ‘lilith and olaf.’ the latest mural, filling the rooftop of the parc expo in paris, is entitled in french ‘quel temps fera-t-il demain?’ meaning ‘what will the weather be tomorrow?’ — named so to serve as a symbolic reminder of the central question for the next generation.

charles petillon's interactive balloon installation generates sound and music

www.designboom.com: french artist and photographer charles pétillon has installed his trademark white balloons within the grand hall of bordeaux’s national opera. however, in developing the project, pétillon — who has previously ‘invaded’ sites in both milan and london with large scale balloon compositions — took a slightly different approach. rather than a static display, the artist created a truly interactive installation that generates sound and music for visitors.

Creating An Immersive “Live Colour” Experience With MIX®

Rosco Spectrum: Visual Artist Liz West recently presented her new light installation “Live Colour” in partnership with The Domus Group during Clerkenwell Design Week – London’s annual design festival showcasing emerging designs from leading industry professionals. Using numerous DMG Lumière SL1 MIX LED fixtures, Liz created a vast colour environment that provided a unique opportunity for thousands of visitors to experience what it feels like to be immersed in pure colour.

Skyrocketing Seattle prices and lack of space for artists led to the start of this arts festival

The Seattle Times: It all started with a backyard party.

And now, festival:festival — a multi-arts event taking place Aug. 2-3 on Capitol Hill and in the Central District — is in its third year, energizing and supporting the local arts scene, while focusing on underrepresented and underpaid cultural workers.

San Diego Comic-Con 2019 Activation Coverage

noproscenium.com: Well, the 2019 San Diego Comic-Con has come to an end and with it, a host of impressive experiential activations have come and gone. This year, I tried my best (and failed) to make it to them all (and, ya know, still catch some panels, shop, party, see friends…)

Suffice it to say, the experiential marketing pop-ups are here to stay and have rapidly become a draw in and of themselves. This year, the Gaslamp District was host to so many, in fact, that I only had time for maybe two thirds of the “big” ones (and sadly none of the “smaller” ones).

Should Art Be a Battleground for Social Justice?

The New York Times: The civilized dinner party is probably over — even when you’re dining with friends. Everything means too much now. Everything. Our politics, obviously. But our genders, our food, our television. Our television. Last month, I was in a six-way conversation about HBO that narrowed into two people hung up on “Insecure,” a sitcom co-created by and starring Issa Rae about two best friends — Issa and Molly — in Los Angeles. It just ended its third season on HBO, and I’d describe my ongoing viewership as “exasperated fealty.”

Carnegie International Artist Is a Master Builder

Pittsburgh Magazine - November 2018 - Pittsburgh, PA: Alex Da Corte’s “Rubber Pencil Devil” (more about the name later) marks the artist’s monumental contribution to the 57th Carnegie International. This multimedia installation is not only one of the most visually spellbinding among the many offerings here, it’s also incredibly labor-intensive, requiring hands-on support from numerous assistants, with Da Corte working and overseeing as artist, auteur, wizard and châtelain.

Find the Devil in Gallery D at the Carnegie International

www.pittsburghmagazine.com: This is not the house that Jack built. This is the house that Alex built. But there are parallels between Jack’s imaginary digs in the 19th-century nursery rhyme and Alex Da Corte’s very real aluminum and neon abode at Carnegie Museum of Art. Actually, it would be duck soup to conjure up a hip, postmodern retelling of the cumulative-style poem: Alex’s place has a cat like Jack’s, no rat, but look for a character named Petra von Kant and additional denizens of this domicile, including Mister Rogers.

Magic Leap Plans to Use Location-Based Entertainment to Win Consumers

Variety: Magic Leap is taking some cues from one of the latest trends in virtual reality: The maker of the Magic Leap One headset is looking to use location-based entertainment to get consumers familiar with its technology, and ultimately prepare them to buy its headsets once a mass-market version is available to the general public.