Art
June 3, 2014

New Imagination-Filled Street Art Murals by Natalia Rak

Artist Natalia Rak has been on a roll lately, creating two huge new murals for street art festivals in Europe. The first one, seen above, is called Magic Book and it shows a girl opening up a book only to discover a world full of wonder inside. Octopus tentacles emerge from the book's pages and a bright light shines on the stunned girl's face.

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Embroidery
May 29, 2014

Embroidered Patterns Overlayed on Images by Melissa Zexter

A new show starting today, May 29, and running till August 15, brings to light a growing trend, mixing photographs with embroidery. The Embroidered Image at Robert Mann Gallery in New York brings together the work of multiple artists, like Matthew Cox, Diane Meyer, Jessica Wohl, and Melissa Zexter, to show how the needle and thread can transform photographs into a whole new art form.

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Photography
May 27, 2014

Beautiful Black and White Photos of a Sideways Japanese Tree by Michael Kenna

For the last 20 years, photographer Michael Kenna has been using a manually operated Hasselblad camera to capture beautiful black and white photos of landscapes. He photographs mostly at dawn or at night, so he can take in the ethereal natural light, and his exposures can last up to 10 hours. He doesn't edit his images digitally, rather, he prefers the more traditional darkroom process.

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