Queen Mother of Reality

Created in 2013, Queen Mother of Reality is a 50-foot-long assemblage sculpture by Polish artist Pawel Althamer in collaboration with several other artists. The piece is coming to Queens, New York in the Socrates Sculpture Park from May to August. The sculpture is a reminder to society of its peers who have been displaced from their homes, and the homeless community in general.

Peter Busby -- Making Drawings Sculptures

Peter Busby is an American artist from Connecticut. He uses steel rods to create life-sized sculptures of animals in a way that "echoes lines drawn my pencil, only [his] metal works are free of paper, and thus, create three-dimensional drawings." His sculptures truly do follow beautiful, organic lines that make his creations look almost real. His work is often placed in parks and in the outdoors (where the particular animal may naturally reside), for the general public to examine and enjoy.

Artist w/ work

Interlude
1993
Alta Laguna Park, Laguna Beach, CA

Night Light in Virginia

Five-hundred twenty-two solar-powered LEDs are set on slim metal poles holding a plastic bottle fitted with a solar-powered light. Only a temporary public art project, the work was titled CO2LED and designed by Jack Sanders, Robert Gay and Butch Anthony. 
Read more: CO2LED Solar-Powered Public Art Installation | Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building

Marc Quinn - What a Big Baby!

‘Planet’ is the title of a large sculpture that seems to float against the backdrop of Singapore’s night skyline.  The artist Marc Quinn modeled the baby sculpture after his own 7-month old son.  He describes the work as follows: “To me, Planet is a paradox - hugely heavy, yet the bronze appears weightless; overwhelmingly big, yet also an image of vulnerability. It is both a reflection of ourselves and the earth upon which we live."

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The huge sculpture weighs seven tons, is over 10 meters long, and made from painted bronze and steel. 

Hofman - A Rubber Ducky in the Bath!

Florentijn Hofman is a Dutch artist who creates large sculptures based on very ordinary objects. A recent and famous example was unveiled in 2007 when Hofman made a 26 meter tall rubber duck titled “Spreading Joy Around the World.” The artist circulates the floating duck to cities that have a water's edge with the intention of spreading happiness. In 2013 the rubber ducky was in Hong Kong.

Nantes, France - "The Most Bizarre City"

Bizarre City...a good thing? Yes. Nantes was a slowing dying city with dwindling industry, unemployment, falling tourism ... enter the arts! Daring city leaders invited musicians

first, then public artists to re-create Nantes as a destination:
"First came a summer of musical and theatrical performances from groups all over Europe, intended to break the air of sadness and defeat that came from the cities' industrial decline," writes Browning. "Next, as the town moved toward plastic arts, more and more outsiders came, further boosting local confidence, leading finally to still riskier bids financed jointly by public (local, regional, national) sponsorship and corporate collaborations."
Now, the city's outdoor spaces are riddled with enormous, startling installations of contemporary art, from houses half-submerged in the river to a four-story mechanical elephant. Drawing some 200,000 tourists each summer, Nantes quite rightfully bills itself as France's most "bizarre" city. For the past 23 years, artistic director Jean Blaise has been curating works by artists from across the globe, using the city as his gallery space.
"From the beginning France's conservative UMP party... was a consistent doubter that such public investment in 'culture' could generate any real returns. So far, however, the mixture of serious art created by world-class artists, many from China and Japan, seems to have been proved a solid formula for rebirth."

IT worked! The city is now branded as "bizarre" and it seems we all want to see just what bizarre is!

Blu -Art on the Wall

The Italian street artist Blu paints graffiti on Israel's separation barrier on December 5, 2007.

Blu is the pseudonym of an Italian artist who conceals his real identity. His art is almost always political as seen here in a painting on the wall that surrounds Bethlehem.  Stumps of trees carry multiple associations including the destroyed orchards and grove of olive trees -- the livelihood for many Palestinian farmers -- that were destroyed when the wall separated the growers from their trees.