Archived Articles from Sculpture & Craft

From public works to private masterpieces, here are some of the most beautiful, strange, surreal and sublime sculptures and crafts in the world.

Small Worlds: Strange & Shocking Miniature City Scenes

There is no unifying theme to these surreal depictions of urban architecture and landscapes, save perhaps their imaginative improbability and singular creator.

Offcut Cityscapes: Sketching Sculptures with Band Saws

An adept furniture maker is familiar with scrap - but this artist has turned leftover materials into something just as fantastic as his designer projects.

Shadow Sculptures: Illusions from Clumps of Junk

Seemingly random bits of junk produce the most unexpected shadows when a light is shined upon them from a certain angle in these sculptures by Diet Wiegman.

LEGO Abandonments: Home-Made Model Haunted Houses

Hundreds of hours and in some cases over one hundred thousand pieces have gone into these models, each constructed to replicate the processes of decay in miniature.

Flexible Paper Sculptures Bend Reality + Warp Perceptions

Li Hongbo's sculptures look like fine ceramic at first, but they are far more layered than they appear. This talented artist excels in the unexpected.

Paper Cuts: 40 Puzzling Pop Culture Silhouettes

Can you guess the identity of these iconic movie, television and comic book characters just by a basic outline of their heads?

Real-Life Tetris: Items Fit Perfectly in Street Sculptures

Old objects fill empty spaces between buildings and in doorways. They look like the results of a closet explosion, but they are carefully crafted sculptures.

Wild Horses: The Art of Making a Real 3D Poster

Artist Xavier Barrade created this stunning 3D papercraft horse poster, which seems to burst out of the wall, to promote a song by UK band Dry the River.

Ad-Free Advertising: A Void Billboard of Nothingness

An odd metal billboard on the border between the United States and Canada advertises nothing but empty air, drawing the viewer's eye to the landscape.

Pixelated and Underwater: Azuma Makoto's Bonsai Art

Botanical artist Azuma Makoto has created stunningly intricate bonsai trees, one made of Lego blocks and the other submerged in an aquarium.

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