kinetic art
noun
: art (such as sculpture or assemblage) having mechanical parts which can be set in motion
kinetic artist
noun
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Meyer Turku completed lifting the Pearl, the world’s largest kinetic art sculpture, in February 2024 and lifted the 367-ton, 82-foot-tall, 164-foot-wide glass-and-metal AquaDome in July 2024.
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Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 July 2025
In addition to a fourth runway, improvements include a major expansion of Terminal 2, including two outdoor gardens, a kinetic art installation, and robot assistants that can transport luggage and even deliver food to passengers at their gates.
—Leslie Patrick, AFAR Media, 15 Apr. 2025
Alaïa designer Peter Mulier took inspiration from kinetic art and incorporated spirals into his designs.
—Alice Pfeiffer, CNN, 12 Mar. 2025
At the end of the tour of 270 Park, Foster and David Arena, the JPMorgan executive, returned to the company’s temporary headquarters, and spent a few minutes talking about Foster’s piece of kinetic art for the new building.
—Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
Images span performance ideas, political sloganeering, plans for kinetic art objects, fascinations with Rosa Luxemburg, the Polish German socialist thinker, Arthur Rimbaud, radical French poet, and more.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
Created by the Indian design and architecture studio Apical Reform, the piece, which mimics the wave motion of its natural counterpart, is one of numerous works of kinetic art on display at the Lab, MB&F’s first retail space in the U.S, located adjacent to the Westime store on Rodeo Drive.
—Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 11 Dec. 2023
Venezuela, in particular, was a hotbed of geometric and kinetic art.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2023
Written by Dennis Hopeless with kinetic art by Juan Doe, moody colors by Wil Quintana, and Dave Lanphear’s expressive letters, Legion of Monsters tells a fun story that pits good monsters against the bad, along with the help of generational monster hunter Elsa Bloodstone (more on her in a minute).
—Joe George, Men's Health, 7 Oct. 2022
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Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 July 2025
In addition to a fourth runway, improvements include a major expansion of Terminal 2, including two outdoor gardens, a kinetic art installation, and robot assistants that can transport luggage and even deliver food to passengers at their gates.
—Leslie Patrick, AFAR Media, 15 Apr. 2025
Alaïa designer Peter Mulier took inspiration from kinetic art and incorporated spirals into his designs.
—Alice Pfeiffer, CNN, 12 Mar. 2025
At the end of the tour of 270 Park, Foster and David Arena, the JPMorgan executive, returned to the company’s temporary headquarters, and spent a few minutes talking about Foster’s piece of kinetic art for the new building.
—Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
Images span performance ideas, political sloganeering, plans for kinetic art objects, fascinations with Rosa Luxemburg, the Polish German socialist thinker, Arthur Rimbaud, radical French poet, and more.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
Created by the Indian design and architecture studio Apical Reform, the piece, which mimics the wave motion of its natural counterpart, is one of numerous works of kinetic art on display at the Lab, MB&F’s first retail space in the U.S, located adjacent to the Westime store on Rodeo Drive.
—Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 11 Dec. 2023
Venezuela, in particular, was a hotbed of geometric and kinetic art.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2023
Written by Dennis Hopeless with kinetic art by Juan Doe, moody colors by Wil Quintana, and Dave Lanphear’s expressive letters, Legion of Monsters tells a fun story that pits good monsters against the bad, along with the help of generational monster hunter Elsa Bloodstone (more on her in a minute).
—Joe George, Men's Health, 7 Oct. 2022
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