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.
From public works to private masterpieces, here are some of the most beautiful, strange, surreal and sublime sculptures and crafts in the world.
The largest LEGO model ever built is a life-size Star Wars X-Wing Starfighter made of over 5 million bricks and weighing 45,000 pounds.
There is no unifying theme to these surreal depictions of urban architecture and landscapes, save perhaps their imaginative improbability and singular creator.
An adept furniture maker is familiar with scrap - but this artist has turned leftover materials into something just as fantastic as his designer projects.
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.
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.
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.
Can you guess the identity of these iconic movie, television and comic book characters just by a basic outline of their heads?
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.
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.
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.
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