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Todd Fuller painted the portraits of 30 Liddell Power Station workers to mark the site's closure. The experience changed his perspective forever.

Regional communities tired of watching businesses pack up and move out are increasingly buying and running pubs, general stores and post offices to keep their towns alive.

MuseumLab, one of Pittsburgh’s most creative and innovative youth learning spaces, has earned LEED Gold a year after the project was completed in the recently renovated 1890 Carnegie Library, which is located in the city’s...

In Bentonville, Arkansas, a giant factory that once processed cheese for Kraft Foods has been given new life as The Momentary, a modern art museum satellite to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art...

German artist Carsten Höller recently announced plans to build two giant spiraling slides in Florence, Italy - and the installation will research the emotional link between people and plants...

For the last years of his life, world-renowned artist Edvard Munch lived in a remote cabin in a forest outside of Oslo, where the solitude helped him produce hundreds of paintings and drawings...

The two-hectare redevelopment site is located on the Moskva River in the city’s Red October district and will focus on the now-defunct GES2 energy power station that was built in the early 1900s...

Los Angeles’ Grand Avenue is about to get even grander. The Broad contemporary art museum will soon open its doors on September 20, with free public admission. Located next to Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall, the...

The four enclosed string tunnels run diagonally from the corners of the garden to the central circular garden that’s framed on four sides by a string fence...

Per Kristian Nygård's works explore the possibilities of space. His latest grassy installation merges an organized architectural environment with the organic nature of landscapes. The large piece inhabits the gallery space...

The 90,000-square-foot LAAM will be located within a residential complex along Biscayne Boulevard and will serve as a meeting area and as the main access point to the apartments for residents...

Heneghan Peng Architects stacked and staggered multiple museum galleries to create a vertical focal point on the surrounding flat and naturalistic landscape...

The huge animal figure was inspired by the aardvark-a nocturnal species indigenous to Africa that is also known as the “African antbear” or “anteater.” The Arnhem Zoo is the only place in The Netherlands where this...

The world’s largest inflatable rubber duck sailed into the Victoria Harbor in Hong Kong yesterday. The 46-foot-tall and 55-foot-long floating sculpture, which is the work of Dutch conceptual artist Florentijin Hofman, was...

In the 16th century, Italy produced Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel, but now many of the world’s art museums are filled with trash. Not any old trash, mind you. Pascale Marthine Tayou’s latest installation...