Tired of the Louvre and MoMa? Create your own museum at home with these AR projects

Acute Art has recreated Christo's sculpture 'The London Mastaba' as part of the new AR initiative 'The London Mastaba AR (Hyde Park)'. Photo: AFP

While most people's first experiences of AR today are likely to be in gaming and entertainment, this technology is now taking the art market by storm through various star-dubbed initiatives. Have you ever dreamed of owning a monumental sculpture by the late Christo? Serpentine Galleries and Acute Art are now paying tribute to the late Bulgarian-born artist by bringing back to life his final large-scale public artwork The London Mastaba in augmented reality.

For three months in 2018, the monumental sculpture was installed on top of the Serpentine Lake in London's Hyde Park, where passersby could admire 7,506 pink and purple barrels that Christo stacked on a floating platform.