Dish Nyet Work: Painted Russian Satellite Dishes
A Russian retiree's beautifully painted satellite dishes do double-duty as works of art and functioning receivers for the orbiting descendants of Sputnik. Love of Satellite Russia knows ...
Category: 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.
Mindful Sculptures: Morphing Chinese Busts Blend Portraiture & Architecture
Seamlessly connecting realistic facial features with organic architecture, these sculptural works bridge reality and fantasy, natural forms and built scenes blurring scales and ...
Vintage Suitcases & Furniture Transform into Mini Timber Frame Architecture
Old furniture, lamp parts and other cast-away ephemera from domestic life transform into finely crafted architectural models in the hands of artist and designer Ted Lott, who uses a bandsaw as a ...
Mach 1: Arts & Event Venue Made from a Tangle of Shipping Containers
Scottish artist David Mach is best known for his sculptural installations and surreal collages, but his largest work yet turns a heap of 36 red shipping containers into a new arts and event space ...
Not Photoshopped: Pixelated Food Sculptures Look Like Digital Creations
Japanese art director Yuni Yoshida is well known for her surreal digital creations, particularly those manipulating the human body into unnatural forms, but a new series takes the opposite ...
Stonehenge Secrets? MIT’s 25-Ton Boulders Can Be Moved By Hand
Enormous monolithic structures weighing as much as 25 tons are tilted, rotated and wiggled across a room by a single person in a new experiment by researchers at MIT, giving us a look into how ...
Mausoleum of the Giants: Monumental Sculptures by Street Artist Phlegm
Enormous creatures crouch in a historic building in Sheffield, England, as street artist Phlegm brings the signature style he developed through years of illustrating black and white comics into ...
Chambers of Secrets: Miniature 3D Models of Harry Potter Architecture
Sets and scenes from the Harry Potter series are reimagined as miniature cardboard models by architecture students from the Melbourne School of Design. Created as part of a summer intensive ...
Lego My VW: Retro Camper Made of 400,000 Plastic Toy Bricks
Is there anything that can’t be convincingly reproduced to scale with LEGOs? Enthusiasts of these plastic toy bricks are constantly taking their creations to the next level, and full-scale (and ...
Refugee Baggage: Suitcase Dioramas Show Dark Scenes from Countries Fled
The project of a Syrian-born artist and architect and an Iraqi-born author, this installation invites viewers to imagine what refugees leave behind when the pack up the few things they can carry ...
