Recycle Your Dumpster: Urban Art via Adaptive Reuse
How many different ways can you upcycle a dumpster? In a project called ‘Skip Conversions’, eco-conscious artist Oliver Bishop Young proved that what used to be grimy, unsanitary trash ...
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.
Clonehenges: 20 Creative Recreations of Stonehenge
Stonehenge, the historic and mysterious monument on the Salisbury Plain in England, has intrigued humans for centuries. While no one is really sure what it was used for or how it was built, one ...
Fluid Art: 17 Fantastic Fountains and Water Sculptures
What is it about moving water that fascinates us? The grace and beauty of flowing water, along with its ability to induce calm, are the biggest reasons we're drawn to artful displays of H2O. ...
Vinyl to Divinyl: 12 Groovy Ways to Upcycle Old Records
Vinyl records in a host of sizes, speeds, even shapes, were THE way to listen to music in the decades before CDs, MP3s and online storage made them virtually obsolete - for music, at least. Now ...
Lego Imitates Art: 25 Fabulous Recreations of Films & More
We have Ole Kirk Christiansen, a carpenter from Billund, Denmark, to thank for creating the first Lego block in 1932. If it were not for Christiansen's skill and imagination, the world would have ...
Put A Cork In It! 25 Creative Works of Cork Art & Design
Natural, versatile, environmentally-friendly cork is mainly used for stoppers on wine and champagne bottles but its unique properties also lend a unique character to artistic endeavors. These 25 ...
Matryoshka (Nesting) Dolls: Hidden Russian Treasures
Matryoshka, or Russian nesting dolls, were born in 1890 in a children's educational workshop near Moscow. The workshop was developed by Sava Mamontov, an industrialist and patron of the arts. ...
Glassy Masterpieces: Where Art & Glass Creatively Intersect
Although there are differing schools of thought and even controversy about whether it is a liquid or a solid, glass can make a unique artistic medium. Blown glass pieces are always one of a kind, ...
Art of Miniature: 10 Uncanny Little Ultra-Small Artworks
There’s something sort of magical about miniatures, especially when they’re strikingly lifelike. The artists who create these tiny wonders look at life from a different scale than the rest of ...
Recycled Treasures: Converting Trash Into Inspired Art
Wait - before you toss that into the garbage, can it be recycled? Many things obviously can in traditional ways, but an artist often sees beyond the obvious. With a creative eye and artful ...
