PARIS, June 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Centre Pompidou has opened its doors to a new installation by JR, the artist and TED Prize winner who wished for men and women to stand up for what they care about by contributing to a large-scale participatory art project.

By Caroline Brothers BERN, Switzerland (Reuters) - Despite criticism and years of red-tape, Italian architect Renzo Piano, designer of some of the world's most iconic landmarks, is forging ahead with a London skyscraper known as the "Shard of Glass." In a recent interview before the opening of another work -- a museum for the work of modernist artist Paul Klee in the shape of three waves in the Swiss city of Bern -- Piano said architects should not shy from taking risks.