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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.

Paper Sculptures Depict Bacteria in the Human Body as a Coral Reef

If you could shrink yourself down like cartoon schoolteacher Ms. Frizzle and take a journey through your own microbiota, it might look a bit like scuba-diving through a coral reef. Each ...

Go Cuckoo for These Brutalist ‘Block Clocks’ Inspired by Concrete Landmarks

Taking inspiration from La Flaine Hotel by Marcel Breuer and the Glenkerry House in London by Erno Goldfinger, these 'Cuckoo Blocks' by artist Guido Zimmermann use iconic Brutalist architecture ...

Hyper-Realistic Embroidery: Everyday Domestic Scenes Recreated in Thread

Woven into this remarkable works of fabric sculpture are incredible details, from metallic sheen and scratches on a recreated pay phone to grime and fish skeletons on dirty dishes (complete ...

Bad Ass Miniatures: An Exhibition of Tiny Sculpted Objects by 30+ Artists

Tiny bongs, dirty dishes, grimy public restrooms, chaotic bodegas and Barbies gone wild are among the fun and subversive works of art found in an exhibition called ‘Bad Ass Miniatures’ ...

Blown-Out Pipes: Artist Expands Everyday Plastic Tubes to Create Vases

Plastic piping original mass-produced to carry water from place to place has found a likewise liquid-related second life in the form of flower-holding vessels, blown out like glass into fresh new ...

Sketched Sculptures: Architectural Models Look Like Physical Drawings in 3D

Looking at one of his sculptures from a single perspective, it would be easy to mistake them for 2D drawings on a flat surface. After all, architects have a tendency to layer lines as they solve ...

Art on Fire: Giant Sculpture by Okuda San Miguel Set Ablaze for Fallas 2018

Best known for his vivid geometric murals full of fantastical animals, which brighten up everything from derelict churches to fleets of freighters, street artist Okuda San Miguel has crafted a ...

Sticks & Stones: Land Artist Shapes Natural Objects into Organic Architecture

Color, shape, texture and structure form the basis for these cairns, mandalas, spiral and hexagons, set against scenic backdrops where the materials were found. In a tradition often ...

The Empire Has Collapsed: Miniature Scenes Illustrate the Post-Apocalypse

Nature begins to take back New York City after all the humans are gone in this series of artfully photographed post-apocalypse miniatures. A collaboration between artists Lori Nix and Kathleen ...

From Chaos to Creative Compositions: The Anamorphic Art of Bernard Pras

It takes a special kind of creative brain to sort a pile of random junk into an anamorphic arrangement that looks like complete chaos from most angles, but comes together into a work of art from ...

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