Tag: Art
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A Huge Purple Sea Monster Lurks Inside a Two-Story Warehouse at Philadelphia’s Navy Yard
There’s some strange things going on in Philadelphia! Well that’s if you call 20 inflatable tentacles extending from the roof and several windows of a two-story warehouse weird! The huge work is the largest inflatable sculpture ever created by UK-based artists Filthy Luker and Pedro Estrellas and is located in Philadelphia’s Navy Yard. Scroll down for…
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EXCLUSIVE Unveiling of Girl In The Bin by Banksy at Sotheby’s
The Banksy saga continues… Unless you’ve been living under a rock this last week, you will have heard the news about the Banksy shredding painting saga. We reported about it HERE, HERE and HERE. Sotheby’s have maintained that they have nothing to do with it, but they’re definitely dining out on the publicity. They’ve just unveiled…
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This Ultimate Book-Lover Turns Her Massive Library Of Books Into Art
It’s one thing to love books and reading, but it’s another thing to love it so much that you created a whole art installation with the books you consume every day! That’s what Elizabeth Sagan has been doing, sharing her love for books with her followers each and every day. It originally began with sharing…
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Japanese Artist Tatsuya Tanaka Releases Another 365 Days Calendar And It’s Even Better Than Before
Miniature artist Tatsuya Tanaka has just released a new series of miniature marvels created using the simple combination of everyday objects, tiny model humans, and his boundless imagination. Crinkle-cut potato chips become desert sand dunes, spiral-bound notebooks delineate swimmers poised to compete, and books filled with sticky notes create an urban skyscraper scene. Here are…
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Man Claims The Banksy Shredding Saga Was A FAKE, Despite The Fact That Sotheby’s Confirms The Sale
Unless you’ve been living under a rock this last week, you will have heard the news about the Banksy shredding painting saga. We reported about it HERE and HERE. Lot’s of people have shared their theories about the event. Was Banksy in the crowd? Was Sotheby’s involved in the stunt? Did the shredding mean the…
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A 132 Year Old Girl Escapes Her Picture Frame And Turns Into A Huge Wheatpaste Mural In Tennessee
Artist Julien de Casabianca was recently invited to create a huge wheatpaste mural at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in Tennessee alongside an exhibition and workshop. Julien’s seven-story mural features a melancholic girl pulled from William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s 1886 neoclassical painting “Au pied de la falaise” (At the Foot of The Cliff) which is included in the…
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Illustrator Imagines What It Would Be Like to Have A Pet Octopus, And We Love It
Illustrator Brian Kesinge likes to mix work with pleasure. By day he’s an artist at Disney Studios and by night he’s the author and illustrator of Walking Your Octopus, which is a blend of the Disney world and steampunk universe. The main characters of Walking Your Octopus are Victoria and her per octopus, Otto. According…
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Artist Sorts Famous Characters By Their Colors, And This Is What She Found Out
Linda Bouderbala is a bit of a perfectionist. You know how it is, picture frames always perfectly straight, pens lined up according to height order on your desk, etc. Linda’s perfectionism has extended into her art, where she started sorting fictional characters according to color! As you know, fictional characters are very different from one…
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One Man Paints a Massive Illegal Mural in Cairo
Egypt has some of the toughest laws in the world forbidding artistic expression, so when French-Tunisian artist eL Seed decided to paint an enormous mural covering 50 buildings in the heart of Cairo, he had to ensure that the government knew nothing about the project or risk facing serious jail time. eL Seed avoided contacting…
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Sculptural Artist Transforms Found Objects Into Amazing Optical Illusion Sculptures
Sculptural artist Thomas Deininger turns found objects into amazing optical illusions sculptures. He began creating work from found objects in 1994, when he was “experimenting with the physical qualities of paint and abstraction in both material and imagery.” “Most of the content I was exploring involved mass consumerism, pop culture and environmental concerns. So really…