All Blog Posts Tagged 'art' (3,646)

French artist Mademoiselle Maurice has hit the streets again, brightening up select urban areas with her thought-provoking colorful creations. Most recently, she introduced the city of Angers, France to the art of folding, covering staircases, walkways, schools, leisure centers, the side of buildings, and even a prison, with her signature rainbows of colorful…

Despite having announced his retirement last year, Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan has a new show presenting an intriguing display of taxidermied horses who have apparently gone headfirst into a wall. The hard-to-miss installation is an updated version of an older work by the artist. It…

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Lightscapes is an experimental work by London-based designer Troy Hyde that takes satellite images of some of the most lively cities in the world and transforms them into flickering animated images. The series takes an extremely zoomed out look at these landscapes at night that are spectacularly lined and illuminated by…

After seeing these photos, LEGO fans everywhere will be completely inspired to 1) Start playing with LEGOs and 2) Head to the Discovery Times Square New York Museum as soon as possible. Opening tomorrow, Thursday June 13, 2013, The Art of the Brick is an…

There's something truly stunning about Bulgaria-based photographer Aneta Ivanova's double exposure photography that seamlessly blends the beauty of architecture, landscape, and the human body. Using a layered technique in Photoshop, Ivanova is able to create her surreal portraits of nature and urban settings alike in the…

Unlike a natural rainfall, these glowing blue raindrops won't actually get you wet. In fact, the bulbous shapes are actually condoms filled with dyed blue liquid and illuminated with battery-powered lights. Entitled Prophylactic rain that doesn’t wet anything, the installation was produced by Luzinterruptus, an art collective who is certainly…

British-Nigerian sculptor Yinka Shonebare addresses global and social issues with colorfully playful sculptures. Each figure features the body of a human with the head of either an animal, an inanimate object, or no head at all. Whether there is a head or not though, these mannequins are most likely having a good time in their vibrant, multi-patterned outfits made of Dutch wax…

The Hot Tub Cinema is a unique movie-watching experience for anyone willing to strip down to the bare essentials before the opening credits begin. As described on the website, it is "a luxurious event that celebrates film in a fun and engaging way." The event pops-up across London and the UK throughout the year, with outdoor rooftop locations during the spring and summer and indoor locations during the…

The statue of a young woman, facedown and veiled by a stream of glass crystal beads, is an interesting work of art known as Ghost Girl by London-based sculptor Kevin Francis Gray. Presented on a pedestal like a classic Greek sculpture, the marble figure offers a somber look at a modern young woman. It combines the classic style of sculptures with an urban aesthetic;…

Those visiting Cardiff Bay, in South Wales, UK can see this enormous public sculpture that looks remarkably different as you walk around it. Called the Merchant Seafarers' War Memorial, it combines two images into one. Using galvanized painted steel, artist Brian Fell created on one side, a human face, and on the other, a beached shipwecked hull, or the…

The next time you think you need fancy materials to create art that excites, just remember the name Kouichi Chiba. The Japanese photographer from Shizuoka has captured the hearts and minds of the curators of 500px who recently featured them on their blog. Chiba creates simple characters, cut out of paper, and places them…

A project that started back in October 2012 was recently unveiled. Yarn Bombing Los Angeles (YBLA) is behind an epic yarn bombing that covers the facade of the the Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM) on Wilshire Blvd in Los Angeles, California. The public art display, called CAFAM Granny Squared, will be up for the remainder of the month or until July 1. The crocheted…

Rome-based Russian artist Ekaterina Panikanova uses open-faced books, carefully aligned with one another, as a large canvas for each of her paintings in a series titled Errata Corrige. Using old books and various antiquated texts, Panikanova proceeds to apply her dark markings across the multiple volumes of published words and images.

Like a hidden message…

A massive art installation took place on the National Mall on June 8th known as One Million Bones. The public piece welcomed the hands of young and old to fill the grassy areas with handmade "bones." Matthew Remington, a Masters candidate in art education at the University of Texas in Austin, describes the project as "a social action art installation designed to increase awareness about…

Every so often, we're reminded of how obsolete books are as functional reading materials. Time and time again the bound pages of literature are repurposed as sculpting materials. In this particularly large and untitled sculpture by artist Liu Wei, we're met with a massive stack of paperback books that have been dug into and reshaped as one entity. The result is what appears to be an old and dusty…

The Palace of Versailles, a royal château known for its overabundance of luxury, is now accented with a scattered set of sculptures by Italian artist Giuseppe Penone that celebrate the beauty of nature. Penone's large-scale sculptural installations, which are all composed of natural materials (primarily wood and stone), are set up like markers in the Park of the vast estate while…

Thinkspace gallery has just tipped us off to their online preview of Audrey Kawasaki's latest work. These pieces are currently showcased in a mini-solo exhibition at SCOPE Basel Art Fair in Switzerland. From now to June 16, visit the Thinkspace Booth to see Audrey's gorgeous new pieces where she uses oil and graphite to paint on wood panel. Her originals are selling…

This massive cube of trash, a sculpture entitled Once, will spark a curious sense of nostalgia for childhood summer days riding roller coasters, playing games, and eating cotton candy. Created by artist James Dive, the piece is a collection of junk from a demolished amusement park—all of the colorful signs and flashing lights, the cuddly toys and stuffed…

Flow is a site-specific installation by Parisian artist Baptiste Debombourg that invites visitors to walk on its "waves" of shattered and repurposed windshields. Similar to his Aerial installation, the shimmering and overwhelming visual experience of the…