The Absurdly Elongated Sculptural Objects of the Dufala Brothers
Special Air Mission 2800 Lock and Key, 2010. Master locks, brass. Photo by Claire Iltis. The Dufala Brothers have a knack for the surreal, creating modern objects that have been elongated and...
View ArticleQuirky Site-Specific Wheatpastes by ‘Levalet’ Bring Humor to the Streets of...
Artist Levalet (aka Charles Leval) has been extremely busy this year, bringing his unique brand of nonsensical wheatpastes to locations all over Paris. His temporary interventions show a wide range of...
View ArticleUndulating Glass Sculptures by Rick Eggert
Florida-based sculptor Rick Eggert produces glass works that are often displayed as groups, each individual sculpture adding to a collective warm or cool gradient. Classified on his website as...
View ArticleIntimate Embroidered Portraits by Danielle Clough
Cape Town-based artist Danielle Clough (previously here and here) embroiders portraits of friends and loved ones, adapting black and white images of subjects into multi-colored works. By working from...
View ArticleFun Murals by Reskate Contain Hidden Glow-In-The-Dark Surprises
Here’s a fun series of murals from Spanish art and design studio Reskate Arts & Crafts, each containing a hidden second artwork that appears only at night. The glow-in-the-dark pieces utilize a...
View ArticleFlorist Geoffroy Mottart Installs Guerilla Flower Crowns and Beards atop...
Over the last year, florist Geoffroy Mottart has constructed elaborate plant arrangements in the form of flower crowns and beards that he installs on public monuments around Brussels. The temporary...
View ArticleEnormous Palette Knife Portraits and Figures by Salman Khoshroo
Working with a large palette knife and thick globs of oil paint, Tehran-based artist Salman Khoshroo creates large-scale figures and portraits that practically drip from the canvas. The scale on a...
View ArticleNew Paper Bird Sculptures Juxtaposed With International Stamps by Diana...
Colombia-based artist Diana Beltran Herrera (previously here and here) has been fascinated by birds since she was a child, however it wasn’t until four years ago that she started working with their...
View ArticleHyperrealistic Oil Paintings of Vivid Chrome Masks by Kip Omolade
Brooklyn-based artist Kip Omolade creates large-scale oil paintings of chrome masks, depicting not only the subtle details of female faces, but incorporating the reflected environment of each piece....
View ArticleFull Trailer for ‘Loving Vincent,’ a Feature-Length Film Animated by 62,450...
The full trailer for Loving Vincent (previously here and here), a film examining the life of Vincent van Gogh, has finally been released after nearly six years of creative development. Each of the...
View ArticleNew Public Geometric Sculptures by David Mesguich
David Mesguich (previously) is a street artist who focuses on placing large-scale geometric sculptures in public spaces around Belgium, France and Poland. Recently, his work has focused on the...
View ArticleA Ring of Fire Blazes in the Middle of the Swiss Alps
All photos © Stefan Altenburger, 2017 Burning brightly amidst the snowcapped mountains of the Swiss Alps is Douglas Gordon and Morgane Tschiember’s fiery installation As close as you can for as long...
View ArticleExperimental Cutlery That Challenges Traditional Ideas of Usability
Design by Maki Okamoto. All images via Steinbeisser. Merging design and haute cuisine, Amsterdam-based company Steinbeisser collaborates with designers and artists to produce surreal cutlery that...
View ArticleImaginative Insects Formed From Resin and Brass by Hiroshi Shinno
Japanese artist Hiroshi Shinno builds hyperrealistic sculptures of insects that don’t exist, perfect forms of imaginative species that look as if they were built from vibrant leaves and delicate...
View ArticleMagnificent Cardboard Airships by Jeroen van Kesteren
Over the last year, Netherlands-based artist Jeroen van Kesteren has been toiling away at these sculptural airships as part of a series titled Orphanage for Lost Adventures. Made primarily from...
View ArticleAbstracted Alterations to The New York Times’ Front Pages by Fred Tomaselli
“Sunday, October 4, 2009” (2016) Acrylic and ink on paper. 72 1/4 x 43 in. (183.5 x 109.2 cm) Photo © White Cube (Max Yawney) Since 2005, artist Fred Tomaselli has been altering the front page of The...
View ArticleMiniature Displays of Contemporary Urban Buildings by Joshua Smith
Working at 1:20 scale, artist Joshua Smith builds in-depth works that capture the layered existences of urban environments in cities such as Hong Kong, Sydney, and Los Angeles. His miniature buildings...
View ArticleBlooming Kinetic Sculptures Built with Wire by Casey Curran
Seattle-based artist Casey Curran constructs elaborate kinetic sculptures primarily of brass wire that twist, bloom, flip, or wiggle depending on the subject. Some pieces rely on a motorized...
View ArticleTens of Thousands of Metallic Lawn Ornaments Glisten Inside Nick Cave’s...
Nick Cave, “Until” (2016), all images courtesy of MASS MoCA and the artist. Composed from tens of thousands of metallic wind spinners, more than 10 miles of crystals, and thousands of other...
View ArticleQuirky Murals and Street Interventions of Anonymous Silhouette Figures by...
Playing with aspects of negative space and scale, Rotterdam-based artist Daan Botlek (previously) fills walls with his trademark anonymous figures, often interacting with their environment in...
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