"NEW YORK (Reuters) - Four giant waterfalls will be erected in New York for three months this summer in a public art project city officials hope will create $55 million in extra tourism revenue for the Big Apple.
The waterfalls, including one that will fall from the famed...
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It certainly beats painted animal statues, or those giant orange panels from a few years back... Danish artist Olafur Eliasson is planning to build four huge waterfalls in NYC this summer, including one that'll fall...
"SAN FRANCISCO—For the past 15 years, the Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson has made art that engages perceptual, ecological, and temporal themes by harnessing such abundant and ephemeral elements as water,...
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"Not only is the 2007 Serpentine pavilion not as awkward as I'd feared from the early publicity images - on the contrary, it is the best of these annual summer temporary structures since Toyo Ito and Cecil Balmond's...
"Widely heralded as one of the most important artists of his generation, Olafur Eliasson nimbly merges art, science, and natural phenomena to create extraordinary multisensory experiences. Challenging the passive nature of traditional art-viewing, he engages the observer as...
BARCELONA, SPAIN.- The jury of the 2007 Joan Miró Prize has
chosen artist Olafur Eliasson for his outstanding contribution to
current art practices. The Joan Miró Prize, organized by the Fundació
Joan...
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