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.

Rolling through the Bay

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

The hard-won result of 35 years, 100,000 toothpicks and an estimated 3,000 hours, this fantasy rendering of San Francisco is a sight to behold. With several “tours” available, the mass is navigable only by ping pong balls that explore all the sights including ocean beach, the Golden Gate Bridge and the rainbow-colored Castro district.