A staff member with “Play Sculpture”, c 1965-80, by Isamu Noguchi at a preview of “This Earth, This Passage”, an exhibition of artworks by Isamu Noguchi at White Cube Mason's Yard in St James's, United Kingdom on May 25, 2023. The works reflect the artist's engagement with material, performance and notions of place and are on show 26 May to 1 July. (Photo by Stephen Chung/EMPICS/Alamy Live News)





“Plastic Tree” (2014) by Cameroonian artist Pascale Marthine Tayou, represented by the gallery Continua, is on display at the show Unlimited in the context of the international art show Art Basel, in Basel, Switzerland, 16 June 2015. Unlimited is Art Basel's exhibition platform for projects that transcend the limitations of a classical art-show stand, including out-sized sculpture and paintings, video projections, large-scale installations, and live performances. (Photo by Georgios Kefalas/EPA)





A woman walks past a sculpture by French artist Julien Creuzet, which forms part of the 25th Liverpool Biennial festival of contemporary art in Liverpool, Britain on June 7, 2023. (Photo by Phil Noble/Reuters)





Banners of US artificial intelligence company OpenAI fly near an installation depicting the legendary “Trojan horse” built entirely out of microelectronic circuit boards and other computer components, outside at the campus of Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv on June 5, 2023. (Photo by Jack Guez/AFP Photo)





A sculpture titled “Plastic pile of sh!t, 2023” presented by Better Packaging Co. is seen on display at Bondi Beach on June 05, 2023 in Sydney, Australia. The four-metre-high sculpture is made out of recycled plastic and resembles human feces. The sculpture is designed to draw attention to the amount of plastic that's dumped in the world's oceans every 30 seconds. (Photo by Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)





People enjoy SPARK an installation by artist Daan Roosegaarde at Federation Sqaure during the opening night of RISING 2023 on June 07, 2023 in Melbourne, Australia. Artist collective Poncili Creacion has transformed St Paul's Cathedral car park with kinetic creations including a large-scale luminous and techno-coloured puppet bus. RISING is a 12-day night time festival of art, culture, food and music that invites audiences to roam Melbourne city from 7 to 18 June 2023. (Photo by Darrian Traynor/Getty Images)





A visitor poses for photographs in front of the eco-art exhibition “Anima Mundi: Soul of the World” by Indonesian artist Mulyana in Bangkok on August 21, 2019. Mulyana uses discarded materials such as rubber and plastic for his marine creatures knitwork to raise awareness of the environment. (Photo by Mladen Antonov/AFP Photo)





Delegates take photos of themselves in front of a giant art sculpture showing a tap outpouring plastic bottles, each of which was picked up in the neighborhood of Kibera, during the U.N. Environment Assembly (UNEA) held at the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya Wednesday, March 2, 2022. Delegates met to discuss a binding international framework to address the growing problem of plastic waste in the world's oceans, rivers and landscape. (Photo by Brian Inganga/AP Photo)





A View of the Work A Girl, 2006 of Artist Ron Mueck at Fondation Cartier on June 06, 2023 in Paris, France. (Photo by Luc Castel/Getty Images)





“AI Mind Home”, Ai-da the robot near her self portrait during a photo call for the London Design Biennale at Somerset House in London on Thursday, June 1, 2023. London Design Biennale promotes international collaboration and the global role of design with exhibitions and installations that demonstrate the ambition to create universal solutions to problems which concern us all. (Photo by James Manning/PA Images via Getty Images)





A person observes artwork at a preview of the Pierre Bonnard: Design by India Mahdavi exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, in Melbourne, Australia, 08 June 2023. (Photo by James Ross/EPA/EFE)





“Ifa” (2021-2023) by Ranti Bam, during a photocall to launch the Liverpool Biennial, the UK's largest free festival of contemporary visual art on Wednesday, June 7, 2023. (Photo by Peter Byrne/PA Images via Getty Images)





A person looks at the sculpture “Earth Poetica” by Israeli Artist Beverly Barkat as they walk past the 3 World Trade Center building on June 05, 2023 in New York City. Barket debuted her sculpture “Earth Poetica” on the 50th anniversary of the U.N.'s World Environment Day in the lobby of a building in the World Trade Center complex overlooking Ground Zero. The sculpture, which is four meters in diameter, is made up of metal-framed panels and an inner skeleton of bamboo segments depicting the planet and its continents filled with plastic pollution accumulated from around the world. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)





Iranian artist Farnaz Damnabi poses for a picture in front of her work, which is displayed at her solo show 'Unveiled' at 29 Arts In Progress Gallery, in Milan, Italy, May 22, 2023. (Photo by Claudia Greco/Reuters)





A gallery worker poses with work by artist Elinor Stanley during a press preview of The RA Schools Show 2023 at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, Britain, 08 June 2023. The RA Schools Show 2023 runs from 08 to 25 June 2023 at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. (Photo by Neil Hall/EPA)