The Obliteration Room

Upside-down ice fishing, where to go skinny dipping and a room exploded with stickers—highlights from the web this week

This fantastic installation at the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art by artist Yayoi Kusama takes interactive art to a whole new level. Starting with a blank white room the artist invited children to take part using a massive collection of colored dot stickers. The result is a multi-colored wonderland of childish joy.

Encyclopedic Landscapes

Upside-down ice fishing, where to go skinny dipping and a room exploded with stickers—highlights from the web this week

An apparent commentary on the eroding nature of underutilized knowledge, Guy Laramee has taken old volumes and created ranges of paginated land in a new sculpture series. What start as massive bluffs decay into ranges, crevices before ultimately flattening out into empty plains.

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Upside-down ice fishing, where to go skinny dipping and a room exploded with stickers—highlights from the web this week

1. Skittish Tree Bringing dynamic visual evidence of the impact of the sounds we make, the sound-reactive projection, Skittish Tree, offers a multi-sensory experience in the storefront of JS55 on Clinton Street in New York City. While soft sounds caused the tree to sway languidly side-by-side, loud noises—like, as we see in the video, a child’s giddy screeching—shake the limbs until they fall off in …