Druid Awakening: A Dozen Hard Rockin’ Modern Stonehenges
These 12 modern homages to Stonehenge would likely bemuse, befuddle and bewilder those who constructed the original prehistoric standing stone circle. Much like the original Stonehenge ...
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.
Worlds Under Glass: 33 Miniature Cities & Architectural Sculptures
Sheltered by glass vessels like tiny self-contained biomes, these miniature buildings and cities seem to have their own atmospheres and variable gravity, with houses teetering on the edges of ...
Handle with Care: 10 Years of Fragile Glass Boxes Broken by FedEx
Packing and shipping artwork is a delicate and costly process, unless your intention is to create new pieces by allowing them to break along the way. Starting in 2005, artist Walead Beshty began ...
Plant Patterns: Living Roots Manipulated Into Nature-Based Art
The intricacies of a plant’s secret life beneath the soil, where its roots grow and change almost constantly, become a true work of art when manipulated into specific patterns. Artist Diana ...
Proto-Pantone: 800-Page Color Palette Guide Book Hand-Drawn in 1600s
This vast volume full of mixed watercolor swatches and other illustrations elaborating explains the art and science of combining waters and colors to create a huge array of tones, tints, shades ...
Telemetry: Tessellated Paper Sculptures Marry Art and Engineering
Abstract geometric paper-based sculpture may seem like an unlikely medium for the expression of scientific principles, but when the artist is also an engineer, there’s an underlying layer of ...
City of Ice: 20 Photos of China’s Amazing Annual Snow Sculptures
Dozens of large-scale snow and ice sculptures are once again on display in Harbin, capital of northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, for the Sun Island International Snow Sculpture Art Expo. ...
Strange Manger: The World’s Weirdest Nativity Scenes
No room at the inn? No kidding – the denizens of these strange nativity scenes would get even the kindest innkeeper flipping the switch on the No Vacancy sign. The Modern Nativity ...
Invisible Repairs: Artist Fixes Broken Wood Furniture Using Clear Infill
Wooden furniture remnants stand out clearly against their subtle replacement parts in this series of artistic chair and bed repairs. Translucent acrylic fills in the gaps of these pieces, parts ...
Threading Rainbows: Spectral String Art Looks Like Strands of Light
Using a simple material palette of thread, wood and nails, artist Gabriel Dawe's latest cascading color creation combines thousands of threads to make a remarkable interior ...
