By: Adrian Smith Autism is an often poorly understood mental condition that becomes present in early childhood, causing children to experience difficulty communicating and forming relationships. The condition can affect one’s language and perception of abstract concepts, but Iris Grace,…
Oscar Wilde explains what makes a true work of art
BY: Adrian Smith The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical novel written by Oscar Wilde that holds the author’s opinions on the role of ‘the artist’ and what makes a truly great piece of art. In the preface…
Artist uses bones and skulls as a canvas to create intricate works of art
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Jason Borders is not your typical artist. Instead of paper he uses bones and skulls as his canvas. The result is an intricate and beautiful collection of artwork like you’ve never seen before. Based in…
Pawel Nolbert’s photos explore the distorted reality of social media.
BY: ERIC ZDANCEWICZ While many people are fabricating dual personalities with their Instagram accounts, Pawel Nolbert is creating work that embraces the ambiguity of reality in the social platform. In his Deconstructed series, the Polish artist takes simple shapes and…
Trolling Trump: The Art and Satire of the 2016 Campaign Vol 2
BY: M. TOMOSKI In the 1988 film They Live, ‘Rowdy’ Roddy Piper stands in the streets of Los Angeles and looks through a pair of propaganda busting sunglasses that reveal the hidden alien messages behind the city’s billboards. The ads…
This sculptor proves there is a beautiful harmony between science and art
BY: CAROLINE ROLF Nathalie Miebach transforms weather patterns and climate change data into extraordinary pieces of art. First, she creates a vibrant sculpture based on the statistics and then translates it into musical score. The sculptures are the basis for her partnership with…
This tattoo trend will literally leave a deceased loved one under your skin
BY: CAROLINE ROLF After the loss of a loved one, it’s common to keep a belonging of theirs to cherish the departed forever. Some choose to express their sympathy with a memorial tattoo. Dedicating a piece of ink to the…
These 12 otherworldly creations raised from the sand will transport your soul to Burning Man
BY: CAROLINE ROLF Tens of thousands of participants gather about 120 miles from Reno Nevada, in the Black Rock Dessert, to marvel at hundreds of extraordinary creations that have risen from the dust. This August marks the 30th anniversary of…
Stunning photos show a clash between beauty and destruction using electricity and flowers
BY: DANIKA MOIR Photos by Ori Gersht Ori Gersht is a fine art photographer from Tel Aviv, Israel. His style of film and photography explore the themes of life, death, violence and beauty, as well as destiny and chance. Now…
How package designers are masters of manipulation
BY: NATHANIEL ASTUDILLO What if, as an artist, you got to have your work displayed around the world, only to have it all end up in a trash can? How much value can something disposable have? And why are Apple…
Why your fashion habits could be destroying art and the planet
BY: ANGIE PICCIRILLO I like to view fashion as art—much like Andy Warhol or the late, great David Bowie. It’s how you express yourself without having to carry around an art gallery on your back. I especially have an appreciation…
Here’s a look at Picasso’s incredible self-portraits from age 15 to age 90
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Picasso was known for his influence on the world of art, playing around with new ideas all the time and inventing constructed sculpture, collage and a wide variety of other styles. Picasso’s work includes thousands of pieces…
This amazing underwater sculpture museum is vibrant and full of life
BY: JESSICA BEUKER In 2006, sculptor and installation artist Jason deCaires Taylor unveiled the first-ever underwater sculpture park, Vicissitudes, located off the coast of Grenada. Today, after two years of hard work, he is featuring his latest project, Musea Atlantica,…
This artist made people disappear as China’s smog problem reached an all-time high.
BY: MELISSA BOODOO As people cycled their way to work, their smog masks tied firmly over their nose, debris-filled air circling around them, an important nationwide alert sounded off. The models pose for a photo before undergoing their transformation. Photo…
This artist immortalized his grandfather by using his ashes in an art project
BY: JONATHAN MOSS We are all composed of stardust. This may sound like a lame, sentimental attempt at poetry, yet astrophysicist Karel Schrijver has compiled a book of solid science that explains how the molecules and atoms that comprise your…
This museum is squashing cell-phone addiction by asking visitors to draw the art instead
BY: JESSICA BEUKER This past summer I visited the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. As I made my way through the paintings, taking pictures of my favourite ones, I looked up and realized something disheartening. Everyone at…
This artist is making bronze statues of garbage to blindside the ivory towers of art
BY: CONNOR BRIAN I’m contemplating the empty pizza box that sits upon my desk. First I see dinner. Then I see a disposable by-product of an unsustainable consumerist culture. Then I see art. The artwork of Zeke Moores has raised…
Artist brings the pyramids into museums to show how pieces of history are domesticated
BY: DANIKA MOIR Images by Magdalena Jetelová Installed in several locations between 1992 and 1994, Magdalena Jetelová’s installations of the “Domestication of Pyramids” were used as a visual metaphor of the Western ideology. This ideology involved taking bits of history…
This artist vacuumed Beijing’s air for 100 days and created a brick out of China’s air pollution
BY: TREVOR HEWITT As Beijing is engulfed by its worst ‘airpocalypse’ of the year, one artist is taking to the streets to help us visualize just how bad pollution really is. For the last 100 days, Nut Brother, a Chinese…
Artist shows how costly war really is with these graphic illustrations
BY: JESSICA BEUKER The effects of war are costly—for the economy, for the environment and for humanity. Yet we still massacre each other mercilessly, and for what? Power, control, revenge, money, resources, a futile portion of Earth’s land? Gunduz Agayev’s…