The Stockholm Lights That Can Be Controlled By Anyone With A Phone
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 18, 2019
The 72-meter tall Phone Tower at the former headquarter of Ericsson at Telefonplan, in southern Stockholm, is a known landmark. It is the t...
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Historic Watercolors Document How The World Was Before Photography
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 11, 2019
Before there were cameras, people documented how the world and its inhabitants looked like through paintings. Oil on canvas was the medium o...
The Homeless Jesus Sculpture
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 15, 2018
Since 2013, Canadian sculptor Timothy Schmalz has been placing a particular sculpture depicting a homeless man sleeping on a bench in citie...
Letters of Utrecht: The Endless Poem
Kaushik Patowary
Nov 3, 2018
In the Dutch city of Utrecht, a poem is growing—one letter at a time, every week, for the past six years. Every Saturday, at around one in...
Michael Pederson’s Fake Street Signs
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 17, 2018
Sydney-based artist Michael Pederson creates small signs with humorous messages and tucks them all around his home city at places where you ...
Guillame Legros’s Ephemeral Landart
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 8, 2018
These gigantic graffiti artworks spray-painted over the fields and the hillside were made by Swiss artist Guillame Legros, who goes by the n...
Landscaping In The Back Of Japanese Mini Pickup Trucks
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 9, 2018
The Japan Federation of Landscape Contractors organizes an annual landscaping contest, where landscaping contractors from around Japan arriv...
‘Windows of the World’ by André Vicente Gonçalves
Kaushik Patowary
May 8, 2018
Portuguese photographer André Vicente Gonçalves’s “Windows of the World” is a fascinating look into the architectural trend in window design...
Pop Culture Dystopia
Kaushik Patowary
May 4, 2018
Dystopian future is a favorite trope among movie directors, writers and artists alike. Decaying landscape, overgrown bushes, and crumbling r...
Toxic Art: The Almaden Mercury Fountain
Kaushik Patowary
May 3, 2018
At the Joan Miró Foundation, a contemporary museum on Montjuïc hill in Barcelona, is a fascinatingly deadly piece of art—a fountain of mercu...
