Art
New Museum of Arts and Design Opens With Second Lives September 26th, 2008
Edward Durell Stone's later works were mostly embarrassments, including the lollipop building for the Huntington Hartford Museum on Columbus Circle. Controversially, it was recycled into the new Museum of Arts and Design by Brad Cloepfil....more
Appliances Artistically Spill Their Guts August 15th, 2008
Images used with permission of the photographer When it comes to appliances, they don't build them like they used to, to last a long time and to be relatively easy to repair. Now they are...more
Eco-Friendly Art or Not? July 24th, 2008
We thought that Anthony Gormley's winning proposal for the fourth plinth was the most ecological art possible: a different person standing on top of a column for an hour, all day, every day, for 100...more
Mighty Wallet June 27th, 2008
Introducing the new Mighty Wallet, an eco-friendly alternative to traditional wallets. How so? Well, the Mighty Wallet is made with 25% post-consumer materials such as recycled milk and water containers, and is also 100% recyclable. And...more
Big Solar LED Art in China: Interview with Simone Giostra, GreenPix Media Wall Architect June 26th, 2008
Walls are big in China, both in size and stature, but the GreenPix Zero Energy Media Wall is wildly different: it couples -- get ready for this -- the world's biggest color LED display with...more
Message Trumps Medium: Five Sort Of Green Billboards June 13th, 2008
Use Electricity Wisely David Ogilvy, the founder of Ogilvy and Mather, wrote: "I have a passion for landscape, and I have never seen one improved by a billboard. Where every prospect pleases, man is at...more
Sitting on your trash June 6th, 2008
I came across these whimsical shopping cart chairs and a whole mess of other cool shit via a Popular Fidelity link to this dense and entertaining WebUrbanist post entitled “20 Eye-Catching Pieces of ‘Recycled’ Urban...more
The Billbird House May 20th, 2008
Created by Bomdesign from the Netherlands, the Billbird House birdhouse is made from recycled European billboards & found handles. It’s European! Fancy! ...more
NYC Photo Exhibit at United Nations: Climate Change, Poverty and Hope for Avoiding the Sixth Great Extinction May 20th, 2008
A photographic exhibition entitled Hard Rain: Our Headlong Collision with Nature is on display at the United Nations May now through June 12th. Hard Rain is a photo essay by Mark Edwards, a photographer and...more
Picking Up Garbage TVs and Recycling as Art May 14th, 2008
Kudos to Artist, LaMarca, for Creative Recycling
Check out one of the art exhibits currently on display at PowerHouse Arena here in DUMBO. Those outdoor images seen on the TV screens are not moving images, they are photographs using the television boxes as...more
