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Yesterday, Banksy left his mark in the South Wales town of Port Talbot, his first in the UK nation. The area drew attention earlier this year when a World Health Organization report named it the most polluted community in the UK...
This past month the Amsterdam Light Festival (previously) opened its seven year, inviting visitors to observe 29 light-based works by international artists, designers, and architects along the canals and throughout the historical center of the city. Artworks were inspired by this...
Completed in 1994, Dromeas or “The Runner,” is a 40-foot-tall public sculpture created by Greek artist Costas Varotsos. The densely layered work is formed from thousands of jagged shards of greenish-grey glass which are stacked around iron in the formation of a...
A twisting set of floating copper staircases intertwine at the main entrance of Copenhagen’s new science and technology center, the Experimentarium. The museum, and its four-story Helix staircases, were designed by Danish architecture studio CEBRA who wanted to create a subtle nod...
The Art Institute of Chicago recently announced the release of tens of thousands of images from their collection to the public domain, providing high resolution access to the thick paint strokes of Van Gogh’s “The Bedroom,” the eerie light of Edvard...
Founded in 2013 by 18-year-old (at the time) inventor Boyan Slat, The Ocean Cleanup is a nonprofit organization that’s working to clean up our oceans by removing plastic. After five years of rigorous design and testing, the Cleanup’s cleaning apparatus, called...
French-Argentine artist and designer Pablo Reinoso has been designing and fabricating sculptural benches since he was just 15. Throughout his nearly five decades as an artist he has explored several iterations of both seating and sculptural forms, including his two most...
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Sculptor Chin Wan Kee’s Will Open A Rare Exhibition
Chin Wan Kee has 'chipped away' over 30 years of his career in the sculpture-making field. As an art student, he actually majored in...
Birds and Faces Emerge From Dizzying Multi-Layered Gowns by Iris Van Herpen
Dutch fashion designer Iris Van Herpen blends cutting-edge technology and classic motifs in her thought-provoking garments. Van Herpen’s most recent collection, Shift Souls, was showcased at Paris...
Futuristic-Looking Pink Amoeba by Thevrymany Wants You To Explore Its Insides
The latest art installation at the Storefront for Art and Architecture is much more than a futuristic-looking pink amoeba. Oslo-based artist Jana Winderen and...
A Puppeteered Music Video Explores the Wishful Daydreams Embedded in a Daily Commute
Asleep on the Train is a puppeteered music video for musician Tom Rosenthal’s new single by animator and director Catherine Prowse. The stop motion short film follows...
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Overlapping Jewel-Toned Fabrics Fill the Nave of a Former Italian Church...
Thomas Granseuer and Tomislav Topic, known as the art duo Quintessenz, recently completed a new hanging fabric installation at CARME, an arts center located inside a...
1,440 Portraits Emerge from a Single Ink Drawing in a New...
In an impressive feat of dedication and patience, artist Jake Fried spent seven months creating Brain Wave, a hand-drawn animation using only ink and white-out. Fried reworked...
Mirage: Doug Aitken’s Mirrored House Creates a Kaleidoscopic View of the...
Doug Aitken, Mirage Gstaad, 2019,
Part of Elevation 1049: Frequencies, Gstaad, Switzerland.
Image courtesy of the Artist; Photo by Stefan Altenburger.
For this year’s Elevation 1049, a...
Birds and Faces Emerge From Dizzying Multi-Layered Gowns by Iris Van...
Dutch fashion designer Iris Van Herpen blends cutting-edge technology and classic motifs in her thought-provoking garments. Van Herpen’s most recent collection, Shift Souls, was showcased at Paris...
A Life-Size Skeleton and Organs Crocheted from Wool by Shanell Papp
Canadian artist Shanell Papp crochets forms associated with the human figure, notably crocheting a life-size skeleton stuffed with colorful removable organs. The work was created in...
A Balloon Mural by Mehdi Ghadyanloo Brings Levity to the 2019...
Iranian muralist and fine artist Mehdi Ghadyanloo is the creator of the poetic mural recently installed in the lobby of the Congress Centre in Davos, Switzerland,...
Detailed Portraits of Animals Combine Intricate Layers and Decorative Flourishes
The newest series by Manila-based paper artist Patrick Cabral features three white animals detailed with elements of black and gold. A pink nose serves as a...
Quirky Interventions by Octavi Serra Question the Rules of Public Spaces
Octavi Serra uses the structures and symbolism of public spaces to question the systems we live with and find humor in their details. The Barcelona-based...
Landscapes of Glistening Digital Rectangles Formed and Subdivided by Algorithms
Dimitris Ladopoulos creates random geometric patterns based on four-sided-forms by implementing an algorithm in the 3D animation program Houdini. The resulting designs look like intricate...
Carefully Molded Paper is Shaped into Personality-Filled Animal Portraits by Tiffany...
Colorado-based wildlife artist and natural history illustrator Tiffany Miller Russell uses carefully molded paper to express the unique characteristics of her animal subjects. To start the...
