A Brooklyn Artist Painted These Stunning Works With Coffee
Brooklyn-based artist Lauren Orscheln approaches each canvas with a large brush and a pot of instant coffee.For coffee snobs out there, don't worry: the instant brew isn't for drinking, it's for...
View ArticleDetroit's Massive Art Collection Could Be Worth $867 Million
Detroit-owned Bruegel painting valued up to $200M, Van Gogh $150M in Christie's appraisalDETROIT (AP) — The fair market values of some of the most popular pieces in the Detroit Institute of Arts —...
View ArticleHere's What Happens When You Pour Molten Aluminum Down An Anthill
Sometimes art draws inspiration directly from nature.In a video posted to YouTube, artists from a company called Anthill Art poured molten aluminum inside a fire ant anthill, dug it up, and washed off...
View ArticleCheck Out Some Of 2013's Best Works Of Emoji Art
In a year filled with eye-catching GIFs, stop-motion shorts, and interactive music videos, the emoji-cons--those delightful little Japanese "metacommunicative pictorial representation of a facial...
View Article17 Works Of Art Made From AK-47s
Mikhail Kalashnikov, the AK-47 designer who died today, has expressed regret at creating something that causes so much death."I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that...
View ArticleThis Ex-Cartoonist Dad Has Turned Breakfast Into A Form Of Art
About a year ago, Kevin Blankenship's Instagram feed morphed from a place to share cute photos of his two young kids into one where he shows off what he cooks them for breakfast.It's no ordinary...
View ArticleThis Giant Replica Of China's Largest Bank Is Made Completely From Ice
Workers in Harbin, China are gearing up for the city's 30th annual Harbin Ice and Snow Festival, a massive installation of sculptures and buildings made from ice. The festival officially begins January...
View ArticleA Japanese Photographer Combined 10,000 Shots To Create These Incredible...
The images in Japanese photographer Shinichi Maruyama’s "Nude" series take time-lapse technology to an entirely new, mind-bending level.Though he's secretive about the technical details of his process,...
View ArticleGiant Rubber Duck Explodes In Taiwan
In many ways, 2013 was the year of the giant yellow duck.While the 59-foot tall artwork was first created by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman in 2007, its 2013 world tour, with residencies in various...
View ArticleA Map Maker Explains How He Creates Massive Works Of 'Snow Art' Using Nothing...
Simon Beck is a map maker who's proving that maybe snow storms aren't so bad after all.Beck, an Englishman with a background in orienteering map-making, uses a snow storm as an opportunity to make art...
View ArticleGo Inside China's Ice Village That Was Built With 150,000 Square Meters Of Snow
The 30th annual Harbin Ice and Snow Festival opened yesterday in China's northern city of Harbin.Nearly 10,000 workers built palatial structures out of some 180,000 square meters of ice and 150,000...
View ArticleAn Artist Produced These Incredibly Realistic Drawings After A Month-Long...
Zaria Forman spent her childhood following her fine art photographer mother and neuro-ophthalmologist father around the globe.Forman's mother — who called herself "a polar bear in another life"— loved...
View ArticleMassachusetts Dad Has Been Drawing Ridiculously Cool Pictures On His Kids'...
School lunches can be so boring.But David Laferriere, a father of two from Massachusetts, keeps things entertaining by drawing a picture on his sons' sandwich bags almost every morning after he makes...
View ArticleHere Is The Gorgeous Expansion Plan For The Museum Of Modern Art
It's official: The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is going to tear down the American Folk Art Museum in order to sprawl across New York City's 53rd Street.And no matter your opinion on the controversial...
View ArticleBeautiful Airport Art You Can See Before Your Next Flight
Seen any good art exhibitions lately? If air travel is on the agenda, you’re in luck: A slew of airports around the world are hosting thought-provoking art. It may seem counterintuitive—the frenetic...
View ArticleThe Guggenheim Is Asking People To Submit Designs For A New Museum In This...
When you look at the photograph above — a car park in Helsinki, Finland — what do you envisage?If it's a tasteful and innovative, mid-size, modern and contemporary art museum, than the Guggenheim...
View ArticleAn Art Installation In Sochi Will Render Your Face On The Side Of A Building...
If you've ever dreamed of having your face on the side of a building, an art installation planned for the Olympic Park in Sochi has got you covered. "Megaface" is made up of 10,000 actuators that move...
View ArticleA Mom and Her 4-Year-Old Daughter Collaborated On Some Pretty Surreal Art
Mica Angela Hendricks, an illustrator and graphic artist, has been collaborating on drawings with her 4-year-old daughter Myla since August, and the results are pretty surreal.Hendricks used to stick...
View ArticleArtist Reimagines Your Favorite Disney Princesses With Physical Disabilities
Artist aleXsandro Palombo has created a powerful series imagining iconic Disney princesses with disabilities.Palombo, who was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer which paralyzed of parts of his body,...
View ArticleThere Is A Terrifying Statue Of A Nearly Naked Man On Wellesley College's Campus
A new on-campus statue of a "nearly naked man" wearing nothing but his underwear has caused a stir at prestigious all-women Wellesley College, the Boston Globe reports.The statue is part of a Wellesley...
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