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Swinging Success

A great quote, paraphrased from San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich, via the blog of the guy behind Pursue the Passion: "A sculptor had a large stone that he wanted split down the middle.  He took a big swing with his ...READ»

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Hideous Chic: The World's Ugliest Buildings

Travel & Leisure finds 15 of the ugliest buildings in the world. What on earth were these architects thinking?READ»

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St. Louis Gets Its High Line: Citygarden Sculpture Park

Like the transformative park in New York, a new sculpture garden in St. Louis brings radical revitalization to a part of a city that needs it.READ»

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Kinetic Sculpture that's (Refreshingly!) Tech-free

Reuben Margolin is the quintissential Bay Area tinkerer: He makes massive kinetic sculptures that echo natural phenomena, such as eddies and water droplets. Here is a video of these sculptures in action.READ»

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Awards Day!READ»

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Good Looking: Chicago Gets 30-Foot Eyeball

Open your eyes, Chicago, and meet the gaze of a 30-foot eyeball.That stare--from the 30-foot "EYE" sculpture--officially opens this morning in Chicago’s Loop. Tony Tasset, the artist behind the eyeball--adorned with a blue iris and ...READ»

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A 300-Ton Piece of Advertising: Too Successful?

The carbon benefits of mass transit are hard to deny: A motorcoach can carry over fifty people, and, in a single trip, take 50 cars off the road. So to advertise Sweden's Flygbussarna airport-shuttle service, the ad agency ...READ»

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Jeff Koons Previews His BMW Design

The new car will be the 17th in BMW's fabled "Art Car" series.READ»

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Murder Under the Alexander Calder Sculpture! (And 60 Other Reasons to Visit Museums)

A day of artistic interventions at Los Angeles museum LACMA has been published as a book.READ»

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Karl Lagerfeld Becomes Fashion's Sarah Palin With Climate-Skeptic Runway Show

Chanel's legendary designer flips the bird to climate science, with a 240-ton "iceberg" created for his latest ready-to-wear collection.READ»

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Lear Won't Take a Backseat

For decades, Lear Corp. made car seats. Today, with the help of virtual reality and other digital technologies, Lear makes a whole lot more -- and makes it a whole lot faster. Along the way, the company learned how to get real about what technology can anREAD»