Wild Child? Chaotic Museum Art Created by Kids
It's a parent's nightmare: a stark, modern living space so clean it practically sparkles that, after the intervention of 1,000 children, ends up looks like the world's largest finger painting. ...
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Frying-Pan Planets? Dirty-Dish Art Photography
Have you ever looked at a scratched, worn-down frying pan and thought, 'hey, that looks like a planet'? Artist Christopher Jonassen did, and the photos that he has taken are surprisingly ...
Automata: Intricate Art Object Powered by 1,000 Gears
At the winding of a handle and the flick of a switch, gears begin to move inside a mysterious faceted wooden object. Then, as the panels are opened to reveal what's inside, a solitary figure can ...
RedBall Project Takes Interactive Urban Art on Tour
Jarringly out-of-place in Abu Dhabi's Emirates Palace and the St. Peter Mancroft Church in Norwich, England, a massive inflatable red ball perches on balconies, squeezes through doorways and ...
Literary Landscapes: Carved Books by Guy Laramee
From the pages of books spring mountain ranges, rocky islands in the sea and sculptures hidden in caves - not in your imagination, in this case, but literally - in three dimensions. Artist Guy ...
Sculptures Made of Straws by Sang Sik Hong
They seem soft and out-of-focus; at first, you may think they're made of wax. Get closer and you'll notice a sort of honeycomb pattern in each of these strange relief sculptures, wherein the ...
Lenticular Street Art: Trick Graffiti Works only at Angles
You know what a lenticular image is, even if you've never heard the word. Applied to a rippled surface in a certain way, a lenticular image shifts in and out of focus depending on the angle you ...
Not ‘Shopped: Colorfully Surreal Scenes by Sandy Skoglund
These days, just about anyone can alter and collage various elements into a scene using digital technology like Photoshop. But artist Sandy Skoglund has been producing surreal imagery for decades ...
Altered Abandonments: Marjan Teeuwen’s Destroyed Houses
Abandoned structures often spiral into chaos within a period of mere months, riddled with forgotten objects, helpless against the forces of weather, wild creatures, plant life and decay. But what ...
Art Remix: 26 Modern Takes on Famous Historical Paintings
Iconic paintings by artists like Leonardo DaVinci, Sandro Botticelli and Georges Seurat have become an intrinsic part of our cultural landscape, even as we progress far beyond the time periods in ...
