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Our House is Flooding: a Semi-Submerged Life-Size Home Floats Down the River Thames
Over the weekend of November 10, activist group Extinction Rebellion launched a dramatic installation in London’s River Thames. “Our House is Flooding” was comprised of a life-size brick house, complete with flood lights, a security camera, and a satellite dish, … Continue reading
Magazine Cutouts Form Nature Collages Shaped Like Birds and Butterflies by Jennifer Murphy
Toronto-based artist Jennifer Murphy combines cutouts of animals, plants, and other organic objects to create large-scale nature collages. Strung together using gossamer thread, the collages form the silhouettes of birds and surreal outdoor scenes from Murphy’s imagination. The artist sources images of … Continue reading
Painting With Code: UI Engineer Diana Smith Creates Baroque-Inspired Portraits with CSS
With little more than a text editor—and years of experience as a web developer—UI engineer Diana Adrianne Smith creates Flemish and baroque inspired portraits using HTML and CSS, the two primary presentation markup languages designed to display web pages. The … Continue reading
Cutting a Feathery Cascade of Paper
Japanese artist Sachiko Abe sits atop a building in a white gown, cutting countless sheets of A4 paper into thin, wispy strips.The performance piece known as Cut Paper is both calming and mystifying. Abe sits for hours on end meticulously … Continue reading
Die Badende (The Bather), Hamburg, Germany
Nov 8, 2019- Many fine art museums around the world offer mobile apps, and most of them are free. Source: The Best Fine Art Museum Apps | art and design in 2019 | Sculpture art, Installation art, Art museum
The Japanese Museum of Rocks That Look Like Faces
In Chichibu, Japan, two hours northwest of Tokyo, there’s an odd museum; perhaps the only one of its kind. It’s called the Chinsekikan (which means hall of curious rocks) and it houses over 1700 rocks that resemble human faces. The museum … Continue reading
Lavishly Adorned Chairs by Annie Evelyn Reimagine the Functional Role of Furniture
Artist Annie Evelyn’s primary medium: wood. Her primary vessel: the chair. One work, “Cathedral Train Chair”, sports an ocean-blue silk train that fans out from a tufted armchair, emulating the fashion symbol of high social status or a special occasion. … Continue reading
Hand-Built Paper Birds by Niharika Rajput Draw Attention to Endangered Avians
A detailed structural plan, hundreds of hand-fringed feathers, a custom-built wire armature: these are just some of the components artist Niharika Rajput uses to create her life-like paper birds. Rajput directly ties her art practice to conservation efforts by running campaigns to … Continue reading
Fantasy Exercise | Sculpture garden idea | Garden art, Garden, Concrete crafts
Fantasy Exercise Source: Fantasy Exercise | Sculpture garden idea | Garden art, Garden, Concrete crafts
Polish Tram Shelter’s Walls Become a Gallery for Dried Flower Designs
A tram stop at Dabrowskiego Square in Łódź, Poland is blossoming with dried flowers, giving pedestrians and commuters a fresh view on the intersection of their natural and built environments. The project, titled “Nostalgia”, was designed by local art student Dominika … Continue reading
