Louise Bourgeois' 1996 steel sculpture “Spider” is displayed at Sotheby's, Thursday May 11, 2023, in New York, where it will be auctioned at Sotheby's upcoming May 16-19 billion dollar marquee auction week. (Photo by Bebeto Matthews/AP Photo)





The sculpture of the walrus “Freya” is unveiled in Oslo, Norway, Saturday, April 29, 2023. The walrus Freya was euthanized by the Directorate of Fisheries in August 2022. The reason was that the public did not follow the recommendations from the authorities to keep their distance from the 600-kilogram animal. (Photo by Annika Byrde/NTB Scanpix via AP Photo)





An installation made by visual artist Ion Barbu, representing a communist era DACIA car painted in the colors of the Romanian flag and reading “If we don't have a Dacia, we will make it from a Porsche”, is seen during “The day of open mines” – a cultural event organized by “Petrila Cultural Association” on the site of the closed coal mine in Petrila, Romania, on May 1, 2023. One of the shrinking cities, Petrila, like most of the mining settlements on the Jiului Valley, underwent successive social and economic reconfigurations. The locals, together with the renowned Romanian visual artist Ion Barbu and activists for industrial heritage managed to save some of the mine buildings from demolition. Activations and cultural activities at Petrila reach a wide audience through events that bring visitors from all over the country, while exhibitions, film and mural art lay the groundwork for groups that have the potential to save the mine for the future. (Photo by Daniel Mihailescu/AFP Photo)





Visitors view works by Girma Berta, Nil Gallery Paris, at a preview of Photo London on May 10, 2023. The annual photography fair at Somerset House celebrates photography from the vintage to modern alongside a selection of the world?s leading photography dealers and galleries. A public programme of talks, tours and more run throughout the show 11 to 14 May 2023. (Photo by Stephen Chung/Alamy Live News)





The installation “Floating Earth” by artist Luke Jerram at the Royal Albert Dock in Liverpool, Britain, 28 April 2023. The 10-metre installation, created using NASA imagery and featuring a soundtrack by composer Dan Jones, is installed in Liverpool’s historic Royal Albert Dock to coincide with the arrival of the Eurovision Song Contest ESC in Liverpool. (Photo by Adam Vaughan/EPA)





People look at The Sapling a sculpture by Patricia Piccinini during the SUPERNATURAL: Sculptural Visions of the Body exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan on May 21, 2023. The sculptures on display in the exhibition explore the future of the human body in the Anthropocene era. (Photo by Wiktor Dabkowski/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Visitors watch flowing data sculptures at the exhibition “Refik Anadol. Machine Hallucinations” at the Kunstpalast art museum in Duesseldorf, Germany, Tuesday, May 2, 2023. Anadol used a machine learning framework to let AI use two million images captured and recorded by the International Space Station and Hubble space telescopes as well as the Magdalena Ridge Observatory, to create artwork where invisible data becomes visible to the human eye. (Photo by Martin Meissner/AP Photo)





People visit “Old Tree” of Swiss artist Pamela Rosenkranz, the bright reddish pink painted tree sculpture made by the steel and polymer amid New York's new skyscrapers which is on view at the High Line of New York City through September 2024, in New York, United States on May 09, 2023. (Photo by Selcuk Acar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)





People take pictures of an installation depicting a fish, made from plastic wastes displayed at Edward Elliot's Beach to create awareness among locals ahead of the G20 meeting in Chennai on May 21, 2023. (Photo by R. Satish Babu/AFP Photo)





The opening of sculptor Carole Feuerman solo outdoor public art show, Sea Idylls, on Park Avenue in NYC on April 27, 2023. The hyperrealistic sculptures in conjunction with Les Galeries Bartoux and Patrons of Park Avenue line the median. (Photo by Milo Hess/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Visitors view the installation “Surfacing – The civilized agroecological forest of Amazonia” by Estudio A0 at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice on May 18, 2023, during a press day. The Biennale, entitled “The Laboratory of the Future”, curated by Ghanaian-Scottish architect, educator, and novelist Lesley Lokko, will open on May 20 and will run until November 26, 2023 in the Arsenal gardens. (Photo by Vincenzo Pinto/AFP Photo)





Jo Davison views a work that forms part of the Jason & His Argonauts exhibition by disabled digital artist Jason Wilsher-Mills at Wentworth Woodhouse, Rotherham, United Kingdom on Monday, May 1, 2023. (Photo by Danny Lawson/PA Images via Getty Images)





The Royally Big Portrait, a giant digital portrait of Britain's King Charles III that features hundreds of thousands of individual portraits of the King drawn by people across the UK is displayed at Outernet in London, Monday, May 1, 2023. The giant immersive screens showing the immense digital portrait of King Charles III, will be available to view for free from Monday May 1 until Monday May 8. (Photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP Photo)





A guest looks at “4096 Farben” by Gerhard Richter during a preview at Sotheby's in New York City, U.S., May 8, 2023. (Photo by Brendan McDermid/Reuters)





People look at “Protect the Beats”, a public installation made in solidarity with the people of Ukraine at Exchange Flags in Liverpool, Britain, 01 May 2023. The work, part of the EuroFestival culture festival, comprises 2,500 sandbags surrounding the Nelson Monument in Liverpool city center, accompanied by videos about the unifying power of music. (Phoot by Adam Vaughan/EPA)