Every three years, one of the world's largest international art festivals takes place in a location you wouldn't quite expect. Echigo-Tsumari is held across a vast, mountainous region in Japan or about two hours outside of Tokyo.
Why simply look at art when you can be part of it?
Athens, Greece-based visual designer Charis Tsevis has just released some of his most fantastic work to date. Created for Yahoo!
Flickr photographer Patrcia Almeida recently shot these great photos of a wonderfully whimsical umbrella art installation in Portugal. Like something out of a fairy tale, the umbrellas look almost like they're magically floating in mid-air. As she writes, “In July, in gueda (a Portuguese town), some streets are decorated with colorful umbrellas. I felt like a kid, amazed by all that color!” She calls it Umbrella Sky. Love this kind of outdoor art.
The McClanes, inspired by Die Hard Pop culture artist Kirk Demarais uses his skillful hands to produce color pencil portraits...
New York-based Cuban artist Liset Castillo challenges the typical notions of beauty with very temporary sand sculptures.
Oregon-based artist Dean Crouser produces some of the most fantastic watercolor paintings of animals. His lively renditions feature a multitude of vibrant colors that fit so perfectly, they make you rethink about the real colors typically found in these wild creatures. Crouser exhibits a truly artistic eye, mixing shades of green with reds, blues, and browns in the mane of a bear as well as an equally diverse collection of hues in his other subjects.
For more than forty years, British artist Antony Gormley has impressed us with thought-provoking installations about our own existence as...
Outside of London, Sydney has been all the rage these days as the metropolis that's been putting on some dazzling...
Korean Yun-Woo Choi is an emerging artist who creates incredibly impressive sculptures using rolled up pages of magazines. Though not much information can be found on the artist, he did say in a fairly recent interview that he was inspired by three artists you may already be familiar with: Anish Kapoor, Tara Donovan, and Tom Friedman. Can you see their influences in his works?
Have you ever felt lost in the crowd, a nameless face wandering in the masses?
