Alice's Blog Posts Tagged 'art' (1,496)

Street artists JR and José Parlá recently teamed up to create enormous and yet very intimate portraits of senior citizens who survived the Cuban Revolution (1953-1959). It's a continuation of a series called The Wrinkles of the City that JR started in Cartegena, Spain and that was recreated in…

Canadian Jason de Graaf is one of those artists that creates works that will boggle your mind. At first glance you think you're just looking at fun photos of childhood toys like action figures, comic books and marbles. These are actually acrylic paintings that are so precisely detailed, with life-like colors, perfect shadows and incredible reflections, that one's left scratching…

Over the past six years, artist Shayna Leib has been creating incredible sculptures that show the movement of wind and water over sea anemone-likelandscapes. Inspired by her travels, including her deep water dives, this Madison, Wisconsin-based artist designs these unique glass sculptures that appear like…

Artist Alexandra Pacula, most known for her dizzying oil paintings (see here and here), is back with, what we believe, is one of her best pieces to date. Called…

Welcome to the wonderfully wacky world of Anna-Marie Jung. The freelance illustrator from Graz, Austria has a hilarious sense of humor that comes through in every one of her works. Inspired by pop culture like cartoons, comic books, movies and computer games, she creates "nerdy" art that features the Internet's most famous…

Artist Melissa Crisp is behind this unique fire pit design that will make you do a double-take. Called "Up North," the sphere, made out of American-made steel, features a moose, a family of deer and ducks amidst Tamarack trees. The scene was inspired by the north woods of Minnesota where the artist's mother grew up. Of course, the real spectacle happens when the fire pit is lit.…

UK-based artist Rob Mulholland is known for his eerie forest sculptures that appear invisible, except for the way they reflect the area around them. Made of mirrored material, like acrylic glass, they blend into the background so well that, at first glance, you might not…

A body that seems like it's hovering in mid-air, walls that continually change color, a human revolving door, what's exactly going on here? For 11 days, starting today April 11 and through April 21, 2013, visit Sydney’s historic Pier 2/3 in Walsh Bay for a special treat. Kaldor Public Art Project presents 13 Rooms, a ground-breaking exhibition that brings together 13 famous artists and more than 140 live…

After much anticipation, the all-new Legoland Hotel opened on Friday, April 5, 2013. Located right next to the theme park in Carlsbad, California, the three-story 250-room hotel does not disappoint, especially for those that can't get enough of those colorful plastic bricks. We visited the…

Just wrapped up in London was UK's biggest Easter egg hunt! As part of Lindt's The Big Egg Hunt, 103 giant Easter eggs, that were each decorated by leading artists, were hidden in cities across the country. All the money raised from the hunt went directly to Action for Children, an agency committed to helping the most vulnerable and neglected children in the UK.

Apart from all the…

In order to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Diocese de Aveiro, a Portuguese Roman Catholic event, Aveiro University students José Nogueira and Cristina Fernan created a simple poster with a stunning design. One of the event's celebrations consisted of lighting the Aveiro canal with small floating candles, so the designers decided they would create a flame that really stood…

We're going to guess that you've never seen a shirt quite like this. It's been over two years since we first came across the incredible screw portraits by Andrew Myers. The Laguna Beach-based artist stunned us with his unique works that were made by patiently drilling in 8,000 to…

She couldn't have expected it. You see, for Ida Skivenes it started off simply. She didn't start posting photos on Instagram to gain thousands of followers or to become a widely popular food artist. Rather, in June 2012, she saw a photo on the Internet of two pieces of toast that looked like a bear and a fox and she…

Launched in 2009, Paperless Post is a New York-based company that has quickly risen to become the one-stop-shop to send well-designed online (and paper) invitations and cards. Founded by sibling entrepreneurs James and Alexa Hirschfeld (who were just 23 and 25 years old at the time, talk about inspiring), the company has been wildly successful and, to date, boast 2 million…

For the person who loves flowers but just can't keep them alive (for longer than a day) there are paper flowers by Frances & Francis. These beautiful works of art are handcrafted using just paper and then attached to actual twigs. Frances & Francis is run by Helen Frances, a paper artist living just north of London in St. Albans. (The second Francis is a tribute to…

While this Inception-style piece of public art is trippy enough, know the backstory and you'll appreciate it even more. Artist Jordan Seiler of Public Ad Campaign is known for taking over public spaces that's run over with advertising. Back in 2008, he created a public installation, on New York's Spring and Bowery phone booth, where he placed his signature weave pattern on the…

Little Free Library is a creative idea, thought up by Todd Bol and Rick Brooks, that aims to promote literacy and bring communities together by putting up mini libraries in neighborhoods around the world. Started in 2009, it's a nonprofit that seeks to place these small, accessible book exchange boxes right in front of a house or on a street corner. (Take a book, return a book.) You can…

Bulgaria-based photographer Aneta Ivanova continues to impress us with her beautifully blended portraits. She first caught our attention last July when we noticed how she stunningly layered both cityscapes and landscapes into female figures. Her work reminds us of…

Last November, Matt Molloy busted out into the art scene with his gorgeous smeared sky photos. Stacking as much as 100 to 200 photos into one, he gave us a new way to enjoy the view right above our heads. By experimenting with new techniques, he found a creative new way to use timelapse photos. As he tells us, "It's…

With a name like Roadsworth, you could easily guess that this isn't any ordinary street artist. Though born Peter Gibson, he chose the name Roadsworth because, as he states, "Where Wordsworth is a poet of words, Roadsworth is a poet of roads."

Though he started painting on the streets as a form of activism (for more bike paths), his motivation later evolved into a more personal one. It…