Art
France's Trains Are Filled With Museum-Quality Art
Riding a train in France counts as a cultural experience.
Virginia's 'Foamhenge' Is Getting Evicted by a State Park
The foam Stonehenge is looking for a new home.
Dutch City Hall Decorated With Giant Fingerprints From Locals
The building is covered with aluminum panels showing the fingerprints of 2,264 townsfolk.
Danish Design Brand To Release Chic Desk Accessories This Summer
Dubbed Daily Fiction and featuring 200 objects, the collection—which includes notebooks, pencil sharpeners, pens, and more—will become available for purchase this summer.
New Coloring Book Highlights Different Decor Styles in Stunning Detail
From Sherry and John Petersik, the couple behind the popular DIY home design blog Young House Love, and illustrator Joan Borawski comes this hyper-realistic coloring book focused on interior design and decorating.
New Startup Wants to Turn Spare Walls Into Independent Art Galleries
A new Boston-area startup wants to use a sharing economy model to widen access to art, and turn your walls into a marketplace for independent work.
World's Iconic Libraries, Reimagined as Colorful, Minimalist Posters
These clean and open compositions, featuring a limited color palette and abstract shapes, evoke the style of minimalist mid-century posters
Digital Stationery Gets Chic Spring Remix From Paperless Post and Dusen Dusen
The collection, the latest in the company's "Spotlight" series of collaborations with designers, includes 10 items, in horizontal and vertical formats for all your event invitation and greeting card needs.
Video Game Lets You Create Ornate Patterns Inspired by Islamic Architecture
Tessellated patterns become engaging visual puzzles in the new smartphone game Engare.
Solid Gold, Fully Functioning Toilet Coming to the Guggenheim
It only becomes art when somebody uses it, according to the artist.
Olafur Eliasson Built This Mind-Bending Mirrored Pyramid to Make You Question Everything
The installation artist designed the 65-foot-tall mirrored pyramid now suspended in the middle of a concrete-lined gallery in Shanghai's Long Museum.
This Film Explores How Art Can Revitalize a Struggling Street in a Southern City
A new short film, America’s Boulevard: A Mural on MLK, explores how a public art project in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is trying to revitalize a stretch of East 9th Street, now known as Martin Luther King, Jr., Boulevard.
Designer Oki Sato of Nendo Blurs Line Between Furniture and Art
To say that Sato is prolific is an understatement: At last year’s Salone, his studio, Nendo, showcased over 100 products it produced in a year, filling a vast space in Milan.
Saving Ancient Islamic Architectural Patterns With Computers and Code
Two architects and a computer engineer are on a mission to digitize the remarkable geometric patterns of Islamic design in ancient Asian buildings and make them available to everyone.
This Very Real-Seeming Rembrandt Was Painted by a Computer
Rembrandt probably wouldn't be fooled, but we would be.
Map Lovers, This New Coloring Book is Perfect
The coloring book craze continues with another title sure to please all the architecture, urban planning, and map enthusiasts out there. City Maps, created by map design consultant Gretchen Peterson, includes 44 aerial maps of global cities.
How a Mobile Design Museum in a Poor Mumbai Community Offers a Platform for DIY Designers
A nomadic museum on a pushcart aims to promote the rich design culture of a neighborhood often dismissed as simply poor.
A Visual Tour of Alexander Girard's Beautiful, Folk Art-Inspired Design
The new retrospective Alexander Girard: A Designer’s Universe, which opened at the Vitra Design Museum earlier this month, showcases the designer's kinetic, eye-poppingly bright work.
Architecture Lovers Will Adore This Amazingly Detailed Coloring Book
In Fantastic Structures, the follow-up to his popular debut coloring book Fantastic Cities, artist Steve McDonald zeroes in on the iconic or otherwise fascinating buildings around the world. Time to meditate on the built environment.
Charles and Ray Eames Celebrated in Gorgeous New Art Show
In "Mad About Mid-Century: Tribute to Eames," Los Angeles art gallery Nucleus shines a spotlight on the legacy of midcentury design's most famous couple. Now on show, the exhibit features lovely new work from more than 20 artists.
No Big Deal, But This French Chateau Has Picassos Etched Into the Walls
And it's on the market for $9.8 million
The Darkest Color in the World Is Now Owned Exclusively by Artist Anish Kapoor
Other artists are not happy
This Must Have Been Quite a Party
Is anybody going to pitch in to help clean up?
Gorgeous U.S. Maps, Painted in Obsessive Detail
Artist Paula Scher scrutinizes U.S. median home prices, extreme weather, and more
