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Raining Pitchforks: Artist Lures Visitors Under 300 Spikey Forks of Doom

When someone exclaims "It's raining pitchforks and hammer handles out there" they rarely mean it quite so literally. Dubbed The Crusher, this installation sounds as much like a pro wrestler or ...

Anatomical Street Art: Sliced Animal Murals Reveal Disturbing Details

Marvelous if also a bit morbid, these highly detailed murals show the complex workings inside giant-sized animals, revealing muscle, sinew, tendons, veins and bones in various different ...

Window Shades: Contextual Street Art Frames View of Greek Cityscape

A turn of phrase meets art in this mural made to look like a face, with glass-framed eyes reflecting the world outside. Graffiti interventionist Achilles likes to put art in context, using ...

Cold Frontage: Storm Leaves Waterfront House Encased in Frozen Waves

When a cold front blew in over Lake Ontario, photographer John Kucko caught wind of the phenomenon and rushed to shoot images of a remarkably frozen home. Located in Webster, New York, the ...

Autonomous Trap: Artist Uses Ritual Magic to Capture Driverless Cars

Somewhere between pagan magic, modern science and quirky satire, this installation project uses salt circles but also the logic of traffic lines to lure in and ensnare unsuspecting autonomous ...

Times Lapse: Minute-Long Video Shows Every NYT Cover Printed Since 1852

The times are always changing, but few things bring it home quite so elegantly (and quickly) as an extended look at the front pages of a classic publication, compressing over 150 years of history ...

Golden Ratio in Action: Coloring Book & Animations of Geometric Illustrations

The Golden Ratio has been a source of inspiration (and contention) for thousands of years, lurking behind great works of design. Venezuelan architect and illustrator Rafael Araujo is fascinated ...

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 ...

Absurdism: Artists Fight Over Use of World’s “Blackest Black” & “Pinkest Pink”

For the past few years, British artist Anish Kapoor has been making use of his exclusive rights to something called Vantablack, a high-tech pigment touted as the blackest shade of black. His ...

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 ...

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