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A Bright New Grocery Store, Made Entirely of Recycled Plastic

by Renée Reizman July 4, 2021July 2, 2021

In Robin Frohardt’s immersive installation, the cereal rattles like it’s filled with bottle caps and the water bottles are filled with dirty, cloudy liquid.

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How Does Plastic Age? Conservators Are Taking a Closer Look

by Karen Chernick May 24, 2021May 24, 2021

A new project is researching how Soviet-era plastics were made and used.

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Plastic Capitalism Traces the Phenomenon of “Waste Art”

by Anna Souter May 13, 2019May 10, 2019

Plastics have drastically altered our society and environment. A new book by Amanda Boetzkes looks at the material as an artistic medium and eco-cultural signifier.

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“Your Shiny Plastic Future Is a Load of Crap”: Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke’s #Additivism

by Gretta Louw February 15, 2016February 12, 2016

Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke’s expansive project #Additivism is a call for the radical rethinking of new technologies like 3D printing, the plastification of the world, and the position of humans within it.

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An Artist-Run Bottled Water Museum Springs Up in Kansas City

by Blair Schulman August 26, 2015August 27, 2015

KANSAS CITY, Missouri — There are 324 bottles of water currently on view at the Museum of Bottled Water (MBW) in the Crossroads Arts District, some flat, some sparkling, and featuring labels from across the globe with an emphasis on US branding.

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One Artist’s Quest to Turn Beach Plastic into Art

by Ben Valentine August 26, 2015September 1, 2015

Confronting and unraveling the intimate relationship that contemporary society has with plastic is at the heart of artist Pam Longobardi’s mission for the Drifters Project.

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A Detroit Design Collective Uses Plastic Molding as a Medium

by Sarah Rose Sharp July 24, 2015July 24, 2015

DETROIT — “Somewhere between architecture and a party” is one of the ways Thing Thing member Simon Anton describes his collective’s aesthetic.

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Other Plastic Marvels by the Creator of the Pink Flamingo

by Claire Voon June 29, 2015October 26, 2016

He’s most recognized for helping to dot the yards of US suburbs with shocking pink plastic flamingos — the exemplar of kitsch that rose from its resin roots to become the “ambassador of the American lawn” and even a “signpost for the transgression of social and cultural convention.”

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