Some artists built a life-size replica of a McDonald's and filled it with water.

Talking Heads frontman David Byrne has extended his resume of ambitious artistic endeavors with this new interactive installation in which he essentially transforms a massive, empty ferry terminal at the southern tip of Manhattan into an interactive instrument.

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1. “You Have the Power,” Says Byrne
2. The Cool Kids Are Down With Byrne
3. How “Playing the Building” Makes the Record Industry Look Bad
4. David Byrne’s Self-Penned Reaction to Opening Night
5. “A Marriage of the Industrial and the Sublime.”
6. “Anyone Can Sound Good—whether They Are an Amateur, Or an Accomplished Musician.”
7. See David Play [The Building] On BoingBoing TV

A series of photographs of terminally ill subjects taken shortly before and after their death are being exhibited in London.

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1. Pictures of Ill Before and After Death
2. Wrenching and Beautiful Before-and-after-death Photos
3. Walter Schels and Beate Lakotta in Conversation
4. “This is the End - a German Photographer Captures the Dying “
5. Before and After Death Now Touring Europe
6. Portraits of the Dying by Walter Schels and Beate Lakotta