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    Artist Creates Immense Art with Fingerprints

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    The Concrete Playground Hot List

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    5 DIY Ways to Transform Your Walls

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    The Creators Project Blends Art and Tech in San Francisco

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    Bloom: 28,000 Flowers Fill A Disused Mental Institution

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    The Top Five Non-Stuffy Operas of 2012

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    Theatres To Usher In Live Tweeting

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    Vivid Ideas 2012 Program Announced

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    Berndaut Smilde Conjures Clouds Indoors

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    Vivid Live 2012 Line-Up is Here

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    Makoto Tojiki Brings the Intangible World of Holograms into Reality

    Utilising thousands of LED lights and optical fibres, the Japanese artist creates futuristic celestial-like sculptures.

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    New York’s Iconic Water Tanks To Become Public Art

    The Water Tank Project aims to raise awareness about water sustainability in a whimsical urban makeover.

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    Visualising Art For The Visually Impaired

    Against most gallery conventions, there are no "Do Not Touch" signs to be seen, or felt for that matter, at this exhibition. Touching the artworks is most definitely required here.

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    365 Charming Everyday Things

    I really love things like this. Interesting art installations that make you stop momentarily and take note of stuff you'd probably never give much thought to. And I don't use the word 'stuff' for any other reason than that is exactly what is on display.

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    The Ten Best Things to See and Do at Art Month Sydney 2012

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    Moss Poetry Appears in Sydney’s Paddington Reservoir Gardens

    The walls of Sydney's historic reservoir are currently playing host to obscurely profound pieces of moss poetry.

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    Concrete Playground Meets Photographer Dean Sewell

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    Every World Press Photo Winner From 1955 to 2011

    They say a picture tells a thousand words, and this old statement is strikingly appropriate for what's displayed here.

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    What Music Looks Like as an Object

    German artist Martin Klimas endeavours to answer the question: 'what does music look like?'

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    Stuart Ringholt’s Naked Art Tours Come to Sydney

    An art tour where all participants must turn up in the flesh, literally.

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    How Happy is Your City?

    A giant emoticon erected above this Bavarian city is set to measure the general mood of the people below.

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    Fireworks by Day

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    The Ten Best Art Exhibitions in Sydney this Summer

    This year Sydney's art institutions have produced an array of promising art events on the horizon to help you push into summer past the new year, whatever else the weather may hold.

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    Five Things to do on Christmas Day

    If you're in town on holiday, grew up in a Christmas-free tradition or are otherwise disinterested in the big day, you might find yourself looking for something to help fill an otherwise quiet afternoon.

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    Please, Steal Our Banksy

    A Melbourne hotel issues an open invitation to steal their artwork straight off the walls.

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    Concrete Playground Talks to Artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

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    Tattooed Lego

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    The World’s First Functional Painting Typewriter

    To the delight of fetishists of redundant technology, an American artist has created a typewriter that paints.

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    Win a Double Pass to Tiger Translate

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    Ben Turnbull’s Real Life Superheroes

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    Concrete Playground’s Guide to Sydney Festival 2012

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    An Artistic Guide to Sydney Festival 2012

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    Paula Scher’s Amazing Maps

    Scher's pieces offer an individual distortion of the world and strong commentary about our society and often chaotic lifestyles.

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    Beautiful Paintings of Graffiti on Vans

    New York artist Kevin Cyr paints the artfully graffitied vans and vehicles of his Brooklyn neighbourhood.

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