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"Artist Olafur Eliasson is perhaps best known for his large-scale installations that alter their physical environment\u2014everything from massive pieces of glacier at New York\u2019s MoMA PS1 to a crystalline shell for the Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre in Reykjav\u00EDk. Last Thursday, the Museum of Modern Art celebrated the decidedly smaller Little Sun, a solar-powered lamp Eliasson developed with engineer Frederik Ottesen to bring light to off-the-grid communities. A sustainable alternative to fuels like kerosene, the sunflower-shaped lamp has a battery life of three years and can be worn as a pendant, hung in a room, or used as a bicycle light.\n\nIn MoMA\u2019s second-floor atrium, beneath the idly swinging Ventilator, another of the artist\u2019s installations, Eliasson drew attention to the relationship between utility and art. \u201CThere are not really so many bridges between the different worlds in which we work,\u201D he told the crowd. \u201CIt\u2019s the connections between these worlds that make a thing more interesting.\u201D\n\n$28, available through the MoMA Design Store; momastore.org"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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