Installation

August 13, 2025

20-Foot-Tall Remix ‘The Thinker’ Surrounded by Trash Pushes UN Leaders To Ratify Plastic Treaty [Interview]

Artist Benjamin Von Wong is known for his incredible installations dealing with environmental issues like e-waste and the overabundance of single-use plastic. While these issues are certainly critical to the long-term survival of our planet, his latest installation touches on something that has the potential to wreak havoc on our health: microplastics.

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July 31, 2025

David Hockney’s Largest Exhibition Ever Takes Over the Fondation Louis Vuitton

Across his storied career, David Hockney has staged countless exhibitions, but his newest at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris might be his most ambitious. Open for only one more month, David Hockney 25 gathers more than 400 of the artist’s work, encompassing 70 years of his creative output. Throughout, Hockney’s modernist paintings, evocative portraits, new digital art, ethereal landscapes, and immersive spaces all converge, offering an unprecedented glimpse into the artist’s practice.

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July 25, 2025

Carved Pillars of Light Radiate Intricate Luminescent Patterns

Nestled in northern Iowa, Mason City is, perhaps unexpectedly, a beacon of cultural heritage. It’s home to the Historic Park Inn, the world’s last remaining hotel designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. It boasts an indelible collection of Prairie School architecture, and it was the inspiration behind Meredith Willson’s iconic stage musical The Music Man, whose characters were based on people he grew up with in the city.

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July 4, 2025

Musical Composer’s Brain Matter Is Still Making Music Three Years After His Death

What if death weren’t the end for human creativity, but instead the catalyst for a new kind of art? Revivification is a haunting and immersive installation created in collaboration with the late American composer Alvin Lucier that probes the liminal space between life and the afterlife. Speculative science fuses raw emotion to create a piece that invites us to question not just how far creativity can go, but whether it even should go that far.

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My Modern Met

Celebrating creativity and promoting a positive culture by spotlighting the best sides of humanity—from the lighthearted and fun to the thought-provoking and enlightening.