Blowing Up: 16 Impressive Inflatable Works of Balloon Art
The clown you hired for your kid’s birthday party probably can’t make balloon iguanas with tiny scales, swirling three-story inflatable sculptures inspired by mythology, or floating ...
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.
Lights Out: Hong Kong Bans Iconic Neon Signs from City Streets
In an effort criticized by local businesses as well as global visitors, Hong Kong has deemed neon signage illegal and is ramping up its systematic removal of these historic place-making ...
Church for Crabs: Architectural 3D-Printed Hermit Shell
A hermit crab scuttles along the sand, carrying a perfect replica of a Japanese wedding chapel on its back, complete with a tiny spire. After designing a series of crystal-clear ‘crawling ...
Tree of 40 Fruit: Fresh Interview with Nature’s Master Grafter
Seven years into his experiments, the living artworks of Sam Van Aken are bearing far more than just fruit, each new variant of the Tree of 40 Fruit building on experiences learned from the ...
Lead Finger: Incredible Miniatures Carved Out of Pencil Tips
Eagle feathers, the folds on Yoda’s robe and individual bricks on iconic buildings are among the impossibly tiny details captured in pencil lead by miniaturist Salivat Fidai. The Russian artist ...
Past Preserved in Paper: Miniatures Document Gentrification
Today, that charming old brick building on the corner might be a market where you can still grab a six-pack at a decent price; within mere months, it could be knocked down for a gleaming ...
Paper People: Hand-Cut Zig-Zag Photorealistic Portraits
Tiny slivers are sliced away from a single, oversized sheet of white paper in a zig-zag pattern to reveal portraits of public figures, from Audrey Hepburn to Michael Jackson, in this series of ...
Art Made Flesh: 35 Sculptures Rendered in Human Skin & Hair
Do these fleshy works of art manipulating human body parts into unnatural shapes make you uncomfortable? That’s probably just what the artist was going for. It’s difficult for us, as humans, ...
Waffle Walls and Brains Made of Bread: 24 Edible Creations
Who can take a hamburger, shape it into a Nike Air Max shoe? Clad the walls in waffles and paint with chocolate syrup, too? These artists can, and their edible creations are probably about to ...
Electronic Autopsy: 24 Sculptures Made of Computer Parts
Art made of salvaged circuit boards and other computer parts put what is normally hidden on full display in a sort of autopsy of our consumerist society, highlighting how quickly the things we ...
