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Lasco project - Cleon Peterson

Lasco Project at Palais de Tokyo

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

Robots mid-repair.

Coraopolis, Pennsylvania

Fraley's Robot Repair

A retrofuturistic art installation in the Pittsburgh Airport.

Painted Characters Step From Their Walls and Wander the Streets of San Francisco

Artist Alexa Meade can change any three-dimensional object into 2-D art.

Lauren Young March 6, 2017

"The Fight Between Carnival and Lent," 1559, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.

The Original Hidden Picture Artists Were Dutch Masters

Finding Beyoncé is fun, but so are the minds of Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Hieronymous Bosch.

Sarah Laskow March 6, 2017

Remnants of the streetcar station.

Washington, D.C.

The Dupont Underground

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

A page from the Camp Amache Christmas Calendar, based on a photo taken by Mike Wada.

The Art—and Anger—of Japanese Internment Camp Silk Screeners

Inside the complex legacy of the print shop at Colorado's Camp Amache.

Cara Giaimo March 3, 2017

Le vere imagini et descritioni delle piv nobilli citta del mondo, pl. 28

The Scandalous Flap Books of 16th-Century Venice

Cheeky pages revealed more than their drawings initially let on.

Sarah Laskow March 3, 2017

Cowboys in the mural.

Building 98

A World War II officers' club features Old West murals painted by German POWs.

A giant robot spraypaints houses in this mural.

M.I.A.U. (Unfinished Museum of Urban Art)

The streets of a sleepy Spanish town proudly exhibit some of the world's finest graffiti.

Maison de la Bellone

Brussels, Belgium

Maison de la Bellone

This modern arts center is built around a gem of late-Baroque architecture.

Time to start studying!

Keeping the Art of Knot Tying Alive

A guild of knotters won't let this historic craft die.

Eric Grundhauser February 23, 2017

Hammering Man close-up

Seattle, Washington

Hammering Man

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

Lenin's head looks out over all.

Sofia, Bulgaria

Museum of Socialist Art

A collection of art from Bulgaria's time as a communist state.

Trifot by David Černý.

Prague, Czechia

Trifot

An Orwellian sculpture with eyeball cameras watches passersby.

A model of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

Gladbrook, Iowa

Matchstick Marvels Museum

A single artist is behind these large-scale models made of hundreds of thousands of two-inch wooden matchsticks.

Watch Lights in Madison Square Park Pulse to Heartbeats

Artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer creates art installations with heart rate monitors.

Lauren Young February 14, 2017

Stravinsky Fountain

The Stravinsky Fountain

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

Elephants in a 13th century manuscript.

Why Did Medieval Artists Give Elephants Trunks That Look Like Trumpets?

Maybe not just because they didn't know what elephants looked like.

Sarah Laskow February 10, 2017