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author: Jan Brennenstuhl
categories:
- Guerrilla Art
cover:
  alt: Yarn-Bombed Albert Einstein
  height: 1860
  src: https://www.urbanartcore.com/yarn-bombed-albert-einstein/olek-yarn-bombing-einstein.jpg
  width: 2480
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date: '2012-08-01T09:25:47Z'
description: Guerrilla crochet artist Olek recently yarn-bombed the Albert Einstein Memorial at the National Academy of Science in Washington DC...
tags:
- Art Installation
- Yarn Bombing
- Sculpture
- American Street Art
title: Yarn-Bombed Albert Einstein
url: https://www.urbanartcore.com/yarn-bombed-albert-einstein/
---

# Yarn-Bombed Albert Einstein

Remember the [yarn-bombed Wall Street Bull](/urban-crochet-art/)? Now, Polish street artist **Olek** struck again when she covered the almost 9 meters tall memorial statue of Albert Einstein at the National Academy of Science in Washington DC! Unfortunately, the city cleaned the yarn-bombed Einstein within hours...

*Olek says Einstein, for her, was an easy choice since he was such a creative thinker himself. "I thought he might have a sense of humor about it," she says. [...] Presumably this kind of thing is par for the course when you’re a guerrilla yarn-bomber.* ([Washingtonian](http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/afterhours/art/guerrilla-crochet-artist-olek-yarn-bombs-albert-einstein-memorial))

The reason for Olek to be in Washington is the currently running [*40 Under 40: Craft Futures*](http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2012/renwick40/) at Renwick Museum...


Via [mymodernmet.com](http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/olek-albert-einstein-statue-yarn-bomb) and [crackajack.de](http://www.crackajack.de/2012/07/31/yarn-bombed-einstein/).