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British conceptual artist Damien Hirst—known for work in which death is a central theme and who, in 2008, surpassed Jasper Johns as the world’s most expensive living artist—created this 35-foot sculpture depicting a pregnant woman with layers removed from the body’s right side to expose the fetus, muscle and tissue layers, and skull underneath. Real estate magnate Aby Rosen purchased this work in 2005, and put it on display in the plaza of one of his properties, the Lever House in New York City, until January 2008. Photo courtesy of Michael via Flickr.com.


“Vicissitudes”

“Vicissitudes” is part of the world’s first underwater sculpture park, created by artist Jason de Caires Taylor, which explores the intricate relationship between modern art and the environment, and dwells in the clear, shallow waters of Grenada. Located 5 meters below surface, this work is a circle of life-size figures—based on casts from an ethnically diverse group of children—holding hands. Transformed naturally over time by the aquatic environment, the underwater sculpture is meant to evoke ideas of unity and continuum while also actively promoting the colonization of coral and marine life. Photo courtesy of Jason de Caires Taylor via UnderwaterSculpture.com.


traffic lights

This tree of stoplights—located on a traffic roundabout near Heron Quays, Marsh Wall and Westferry Road in East London—was created by Pierre Vivant in 1998. According to Vivant, “the sculpture imitates the natural landscape of the adjacent London Plane Trees, while the changing pattern of the lights reveal and reflect the never-ending rhythm of the surrounding domestic, financial and commercial activities." Photo courtesy of WWarby via Flickr.com.

“Le Passe-Muraille”Created by the famous French actor Jean Marais, this mysterious sculpture—located in the Montmartre area of Paris—is based on author Marcel Aymé’s famous story "Le Passe-Muraille" or “The Man Who Could Walk Through Walls.” The story recounted the fictional life of a man named Dutilleul, a humble civil servant who at age 42 discovers he has a special talent for walking through walls. Photo courtesy of Diane Foulds via Flickr.com.

“Carhenge”
“Carhenge,” located in Alliance, Nebraska, was built to imitate Stonehenge—the famous Wiltshire, England, landmark erected in approximately 2500 BC. Using 38 vehicles from the 1950s and ’60s, artist Jim Reinders and his family members built the replica in 1987 as a memorial to his father on farmland where the elder Reinders once lived. A dedication ceremony was held, appropriately enough, on the summer solstice in the year it was built, and Reinders later donated the automobile sculpture and its surrounding 10 acres of land to a locally formed group called Friends of Carhenge, who now owns and maintains it. Photo courtesy of Kevin Saff via Flickr.com.

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