Friends Use Recycled Cardboard Boxes to Build Amazing Life-Size Pirate Ship!
Three creative eco-artists have built an incredible life-sized pirate ship out of recycled cardboard! Three Reddit-using...
Paper Dandy’s Horrorgami Papercuts Honor Cult Classic Horror Films
Each of the eerie architectural sites epitomizes the horrific stories that transposed within. Hagan-Guirey carefully...
Ethiopian artist transforms trash from Africa’s largest open market into thought-provoking sculptures
Where some might see unwanted cast-offs from Africa's largest open market, Elias Sime sees art waiting to happen....
Cybele Young folds Japanese paper into intricate sculptures of everyday objects
Young focuses on one particular kind of paper for her delicate sculptures: Japanese paper that can be emblazoned...
El Anatsui makes gorgeous recycled sculptures from discarded aluminum cans
The School's wide halls and oversized windows allow for a different sort of art viewing, one that affords the time...
Play in a plane crash sculpture and a field of milk bottle dandelions at this art festival in France
For the past nine years, the festival has introduced visitors to the chemistry that art and nature can have together,...
A living room of found furniture pops up in Times Square (PHOTOS)
Since last year, Bettman has been setting up impromptu “rooms” all over New York City from Bushwick to Chelsea...
Paula Hayes’ intriguing ‘Gazing Globes’ take over Madison Square Park (PHOTOS)
Scattered across the northwest promenade in the park, Hayes' Gazing Globes emerge from the ground atop white...
Artist Nikki Ella Whitlock recycles wine bottle fragments into ethereal mosaics
Inspired by nature, Whitlock’s pieces combine organic forms with ethereal creatures that could pas as fairies...
Diem Chau Carves Pencil Tips Into Incredible Miniature Animal Sculptures!
The artist’s striking tell-tale raven emerges from the whittled, rectangular base of the flat carpenter’s...
Students Transform a Boring Electrical Tower into an Inspiring Stained Glass Lighthouse
Art students in Germany converted an electrical tower outside of Hattigen into an impromptu art installation with...
Bernard Pras Recreates Artistic Masterpieces Entirely from Recycled Materials
From afar, each of Pras’ pieces appear like seamless paintings. Hokusai’s classic “The Wave” crests with...
Michael Johansson’s Precisely Stacked Sculptures Give Found Objects the Tetris Treatment
Michael Johansson’s’s stacked creations can be found taking refuge in the unnoticed empty spaces scattered...
Artist Ian Strange Gives Homes Affected by the Christchurch Earthquake One Last Breath of Life
Strange began seeing the beauty in condemned homes during his first project Suburban, in which the artist transformed...
Connected: Julie Peppito’s Eclectic Collages Call Attention to Overconsumerism and Climate Change
With the portraits from “Connected,” Peppito began to describe her sitters by their things, separating what...
Eduoard Martinet Upcycles Junk into Delicate Insect Sculptures
Martinet’s junk sculptures are unique in their beautiful craftsmanship. Despite being made from clunky elements...
Luzinterruptus Creates Colorful Fishing in Light Installation Using Borrowed Containers
For a week, Luzinterruptus traveled around the Spanish town borrowing plastic containers, taking note of the names...
Ai Weiwei Unveils Staggering Tower of 886 Repurposed Stools at the Venice Biennale
The three-legged stools hanging every which way in Weiwei’s “Bang” are from an era of craftsmanship that...
Vahge Transforms Magazines into Gorgeous Victorian-Inspired Collages
The self-taught artist began assembling cut up elements into whimsical collages at a young age. Using a heavy hand...
Vik Muniz Transforms Gold Scrap Metal into Oversize Animal Collages
Using scrap metal as his medium, Muniz carefully creates large photorealistic collages. Treating each piece of...
Shinique Smith’s Curious Hanging Sculptures are Upcycled from Her Own Wardrobe
Smith’s work is inspired by our consumer throw-away culture, and assigns a vocabulary to the items and materials...
PHOTOS: Inhabitat Explores the Outsider Art Fair’s Fascinating Eco-Creations
This year, the Outsider Art Fair took residence in the former Dia Foundation Building on 22nd Street, which has...
Dennis Maher Transforms His Home into a Living Art Exhibition of Found Objects
Maher is the current artist-in-residence at Buffalo’s Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the city’s main art museum....
El Anatsui Upcycles Bottle Caps into Gorgeous, Glittering Tapestries
When Anatsui learned that Nigerian liquor companies throw out the seals and bottle caps when refilling liquor bottles,...
Gabriel Orozco Transforms Coastal Trash into a Colorful Art Installation at the Guggenheim
The new works, which occupy the museum’s top floor, were specially commissioned from the artist by the Guggenheim....
CANLOVE Upcycles Cast Off Spray Cans Into Gorgeous Sculptures and Paintings
Dedicated to graffiti art in all its forms, each member of CANLOVE believes in a cradle to grave model for their...
Kenny Scharf’s Cosmic Cavern is a Glowing Den Made from Recycled Materials
Scharf is known for his cartoony murals and paintings that started popping up around New York in the early 1980s....
Man Recycles Old Door Knobs into a Sparkling Replica of Van Gogh’s Starry Night
Goldberg’s discontinued overstock collected dust in his warehouse for over fifteen years. When he finally decided...
Skeletons and Saints Emerge from Single Pieces of Paper in Peter Callesen’s Artworks
Through meticulous and carefully calculated cuts, Callesen removes just enough of the paper to create his three...
Artist Mykl Wells Builds a Gargantuan Upside Down Head Using Recycled Cardboard
For Cartasia, a biennial cardboard and paper art competition held in the medieval walled city of Lucca, Italy,...