Art

November 9, 2011

Hanging Sculptures at the Guggenheim

Designboom Image Alessandro Ghirelli Ready for a crazy installation? Artist Maurizio Cattelan pulls inspiration from nearly everything around him in both popular culture and history. He's known to produce sculptures that are comedic in nature but often times have an underlying, politically-based theme. He draws from a past of menial jobs and financial hardships that shaped much of his early work, as well as a mistrust in authority.

Read Article

November 8, 2011

The Last Supper Made of 20,000 Spools of Thread

Showing on 11-11-11, at the debut of the brand new Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, Arkansas, is an incredibly impressive work of art created by Devorah Sperber. Using over 20,000 spools of thread, Sperber created “After the Last Supper,” a monumental work that's the life-sized recreation of Leonardo da Vinci's “The Last Supper.” A viewing sphere, positioned in front of the work, shrinks or condenses the thread spool “pixels” into a recognizable image.

Read Article

November 4, 2011

Amazing Floor-to-Ceiling Graffiti Tree

The TSF crew is at it again! This past summer we wrote about graffiti done by the artists that looked like an Earth-Shattering Shout. Here, they're back again with a larger design that reaches as far up as the ceiling! This anamorphic graffiti tree plays with depth perception and shadows to make it seem like the tree is breaking out of its surface.

Read Article

November 2, 2011

Tiger Rug Made of 500,000 Cigarettes

We're all aware of the lavish furnishing of a bearskin rug, but have you ever seen a tiger-print rug made out of 500,000 cigarettes? China's renowned contemporary artist Xu Bing has worked on tobacco-related projects for over ten years. Bing's works of art, inspired by the nicotine-rich leaves, began in 2000 at Duke University.

Read Article

My Modern Met

Celebrating creativity and promoting a positive culture by spotlighting the best sides of humanity—from the lighthearted and fun to the thought-provoking and enlightening.