A Touch of Greyworld.

The article discusses the public art of Greyworld in Great Britain. For centuries public art has meant monuments of bronzed warriors or controversial sculptures that were more often reviled than admired. Greyworld, a group of artists brought together by Briton Andrew Shoben in the mid-'90s, is trying to change all that, using its imaginative installations to transform the world's dreary urban areas. At a bus stop in the English town of Bradford, a disembodied female voice spins a poem about the color worn by a waiting commuter. In Greyworld's latest effort, called "The Source," 729 white spheres rise and fall in thousands of pre-programmed configurations along nearly invisible 32-meter metal cables hanging from the ceiling of the London Stock Exchange building. September, Greyworld will unveil another London-based project, a homage to Alfred Hitchcock called "The Game." Stepping on certain gray paving stones of this giant game board will trigger a mini sound-and-light show in the surrounding shrubbery.