Showing posts with the label Art & Design

Artworks That Were Hung Upside Down

Aug 3, 2023

Art evoke emotions, provoke thoughts, and inspire, but it also challenges our perception because art eludes simple definition. The baffling ...

Spot The Woman

Aug 9, 2022

For much of history, women have been forced to occupy a position one notch lower than that of men. This is very apparent when you look at ol...

Danila Tkachenko’s Ghostly Photographs of Abandoned Soviet Military Sites

Jun 30, 2021

In his series “Restricted Areas”, Moscow-based visual artist Danila Tkachenko looks at the human impulse to use destructive technologies in ...

The Artist Who Got Carried Away: The Story of The Peacock Room

Apr 25, 2020

In 1876, the British shipping magnate Frederick Richards Leyland bought himself a grand house at 49 Princes Gate in the fashionable neighb...

Digitally Reconstructed Medieval Castles

Apr 3, 2020

Europe is known for its magnificent castles and fortresses, but only a few survive in their original form. Since reconstructing them would b...

Terrible National Park Reviews Illustrated

Mar 9, 2020

The wonderful thing about online reviews is that you will find both five-star and one-star reviews for the exact same product, and this incl...

The Wonderful Art of Missing Pet Posters

Sep 5, 2019

“Have you scene [sic] my CAT ?”, pleaded a crude hand-made poster. Underneath it was a sketch of the missing cat, apparently drawn by a chi...

Barge Haulers on The Volga

Aug 1, 2019

Before the era of steam engines, the process of moving a boat or a barge up a river was extremely difficult. The usual method was to tow the...

The 387 Houses of Peter Fritz

Apr 15, 2019

In 1993, while rummaging through a junk shop in Vienna, Austria, artist Oliver Croy made an extraordinary discovery—hundreds of beautiful, ...

Carrières de Lumières: An Immersive Art Gallery in a Disused Quarry

Mar 30, 2019

In the Les Baux-de-Provence of southern France, is located Carrières de Lumières , or the Quarries of Light—an unusual multimedia exhibit sp...