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The Otherworldly Calm of Wolfgang Laib’s Glowing Beeswax Room
Wolfgang Laib, Wax Room. (Wohin bist Du gegangen-wohin gehst Du?/Where have you gone-where are you going?), 2013. The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. Photo by Lee Stalsworth. When I step into...
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Every Day a Different Dish: Klari Reis’ Petri Paintings
April 4, 2013: Taylor Swift, by Klari Reis. For all 94 days of 2013 thus far, Klari Reis has kept to her resolution. The San Francisco-based artist has posted a new petri dish painting—eye candy for...
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An Artist Creates Artificial Fog in San Francisco
An artist’s rendering of Fog Bridge at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Image courtesy of the Exploratorium. Artist Fujiko Nakaya believes in the transformative power of fog. The first time she...
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Want to See How an Artist Creates a Painting? There’s an App for That
The Repentir app reveals an artist’s creative process by allowing users to peel back layers of paint with the touch of their fingertips. Photo courtesy of Jonathan Hook. Artwork © Nathan Walsh An...
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This Incredible Art Installation Makes It Rain, Everywhere But On You
Rain Room is on display at MoMA, in conjunction with EXPO 1: New York, through July 28, 2013. Image by Charles Roussel. What if we could control the weather? The thought has more than crossed the...
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These Bright Webs Depict Flight Patterns Around Major Airports
London. Image courtesy of Contrailz. Software engineer Alexey Papulovskiy has flown more in the past two years than he had in his entire life. Since moving to Moscow, he has taken trips to Kiev, Saint...
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Fruits and Veggies Get a Close-Up
What do you see? © Ajay Malghan One spring semester, Ajay Malghan was experimenting in the dark room at Savannah College of Art and Design’s Hong Kong campus, where he was earning his MFA in...
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The End of the World Might Just Look Like This
Artist Ron Miller illustrates what it might look like if an asteroid the size of the one that struck the Yucatan peninsula 65 million years ago, which left a 93-mile-wide crater and most likely...
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Sharks Made Out of Golf Bags? A Look at the Big Fish in Contemporary Art
Damien Hirst’s The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. In 1991, British artist Damien Hirst stuffed a 13-foot tiger shark, caught in...
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The Gorgeous Shapes of Sea Butterflies
A pteropod (Limacina helicina) sculpture from Cornelia Kavanagh’s exhibition, which opens this week at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s Sant Ocean Hall. Photo Credit: John Gould...
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Sonic Bloom! A New Solar-Powered Sculpture
“Sonic Bloom,” a solar sculpture at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle. Photo courtesy of Dan Corson. When the Pacific Science Center in Seattle put out a call for public art demonstrating solar...
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Macro or Micro? Test Your Sense of Scale
You might be curious, is this something macroscopic or microscopic? It’s actually the wing of a green darner dragonfly, as seen through a scanning electron microscope. Image by Paul Kelly. Stephen...
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Animal Specimens, From Fish to Birds to Mammals, Get Inked
Horseshoe crab. Image by Adam Cohen and Ben Labay. Adam Cohen and Ben Labay are surrounded by thousands of fish specimens, all preserved in jars of alcohol and formalin. At the Texas Natural Science...
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Artists Join Scientists on an Expedition to Collect Marine Debris
Fishing net at Alaska’s Gore Point. © Kip Evans Washed up on the remote beaches of southern Alaska are plastics of every shape, size and color. There are detergent bottles, cigarette lighters, fishing...
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Art Chronicles Glaciers As They Disappear
“Melting Ice,” a site-specific installation by artist Jyoti Duwadi, is part of “Vanishing Ice: Alpine and Polar Landscapes in Art 1775-2012,” on view now at the Whatcom Museum in Bellingham, WA. In a...
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