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fromArtnet News
15 hours ago

The Monumental Impact of Indian Miniature Painting

Indian miniature painting showcases diverse styles and themes, reflecting the tastes of royal courts across the Indian subcontinent from 1630 to the early 19th century.
fromArchDaily
1 week ago

Architectures of the Gaze: 25 Viewpoints for Experiencing the Landscape

Viewpoints are structures designed for observing the landscape from elevated positions. They act as devices that organize the gaze and establish a direct relationship between the body and the territory.
Philosophy
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 week ago

A View From the Easel

Creating molds from high-heeled shoes in a shared workspace enhances precision and organization in the artistic process.
Graphic design
fromItsnicethat
2 weeks ago

The identity for Spatial festival feels aptly three-dimensional

Motion was integrated as a foundational design element rather than an afterthought, creating a dynamic, three-dimensional brand identity that responds to physical and digital spaces.
fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 weeks ago

The Superb Toy Collection Where 3D Models Get Face Tweaks, Restored Paint And Smoke Effects For Ultrarealistic Closeups

Journey426 is a Chinese toy photographer and custom figure artist with a focus on Dragon Ball Z, Berserk, and other anime/game collectibles, creating hyperrealistic setups and custom paint jobs that make plastic figures look like professional photography subjects.
Photography
Design
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
2 weeks ago

vernacular bridge craftsmanship informs micro-museum set within bamboo grove in china

A micro-museum in Huizhou documents two vernacular bridge types—baqiao and gaoqiao—representing distinct regional stone construction traditions adapted to varying river conditions and topography.
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fromArtnet News
1 week ago
Arts

A Truck Driver Spent 20 Years Building a Miniature Model of New York City

Joe Macken's 50-by-27-foot model of New York City, built over 21 years, is now featured at the Museum of the City of New York.
fromColossal
2 weeks ago

Folklore and Nature Converge in Cat Johnston's Expressive, Eccentric Puppets

Drawing on childhood memories, folk art, and nature, the London-based illustrator and model maker creates expressive sculptures and puppets that inhabit dreamlike realms. Invoking historical costumes and cartoonish and emotive faces, Johnston's otherworldly cast seems both familiar and strange, as if children's book protagonists have sprung to life or converged with a strange dream.
Graphic design
Arts
fromColossal
1 week ago

Explore a Growing City of Meticulously Crafted Miniature Paper Buildings by Charles Young

Charles Young creates intricate miniature paper models inspired by color combinations, showcasing diverse architectural styles and emphasizing color pairings.
Coronavirus
fromArchDaily
3 weeks ago

The Embellished, the Transient, and the Critical Installation / Alsar Atelier

During the pandemic, urban spaces transformed dramatically as animals reclaimed cities and streets became vibrant communal areas filled with greenery and public life.
Parenting
fromBusiness Insider
4 weeks ago

My mom has been collecting miniatures for 50 years. They have taken over our 1000-square-foot basement.

Celina Myers' mother has collected miniatures since age 14, filling their entire basement with thousands of organized tiny treasures that continue to bring her joy despite physical disability.
Gadgets
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
4 weeks ago

8 LEGO Architecture Sets So Good They Belong in a Museum, Not a Toy Aisle - Yanko Design

LEGO has evolved from disposable toys into collectible display pieces for adult enthusiasts, with official sets and fan designs featuring architectural detail and dramatic lighting.
fromArchDaily
4 weeks ago

Archiving the Technosphere: How Museum Architecture Mediates Human-Made Systems

The contemporary technology museum has emerged as a performative participant in the systems it seeks to document. The architecture of these institutions has become increasingly fluid and bold, often mirroring the velocity and complexity of the systems it houses. They operate as mediators between the human, the ecological, and the technological realms, transforming from encyclopedic warehouses into active educational engines.
Science
fromwww.thehistoryblog.com
1 month ago

Explore 3D models of Met masterpieces

More than 100 art works have been scanned in ultra-high resolution with portable laser scanners that could image objects that are unmoveable and could not be scanned by traditional machines. That data combined with photogrammetry techniques that puzzle together thousands of photographs to create a photorealistic composite.
Paris food
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

An ugly year for the Louvre: where does the world's biggest museum go from here?

Laurence des Cars resigned as Louvre president after a year marked by staff strikes, infrastructure crises, a major heist, and ongoing operational challenges despite a €1 billion renovation plan.
Graphic design
fromFast Company
1 month ago

The architectural sketch is back

The architectural sketch is experiencing a revival in contemporary practice despite decades of digital dominance, as architects recognize the unique value of hand-drawn work in an AI-driven world.
Los Angeles
fromLos Angeles Times
29 years ago

Bringing Back the Luster to the Grace

The Grace Apartment Hotel, a historic 1906 colonial structure, undergoes a million-dollar restoration to improve tenant living conditions while maintaining its affordable monthly rent of $255.
fromFrenchly
1 month ago

The Best Art Apps for Exploring France - Frenchly

CultureClic is one of the most comprehensive French art apps available. Designed as a mobile-first discovery tool, it maps out more than 1,350 museums across France and highlights hundreds of geolocated artworks, photographs, and historical engravings. The app is particularly strong in Paris but also features content in cities like Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, and Avignon. What sets CultureClic apart is its use of augmented reality, allowing users to visualize artworks and historical documents in context.
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Arts
fromColossal
3 weeks ago

You'll Need a Magnifying Glass to Read Some of the World's Smallest Books at the V&A

Queen Mary's Dolls' House at Windsor Castle contains nearly 600 miniature books designed by leading craftspeople, representing a remarkable collection of scaled literary works from the early 20th century.
fromFlowingData
1 month ago

Illustrated engineering in everyday objects

I take the product apart. CAD it up. Illustrate each view. Then animate and lay it out for the web. That sounds quick, but it does take me quite a bit of time to create each one.
Graphic design
fromArtnet News
3 weeks ago

David Hockney Takes on the Bayeux Tapestry With a 300-Foot iPad Epic

Just shy of 300-feet and improbably painted using an iPad, Hockney's frieze winds its way around the outer perimeter of "A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts about Painting," on view at Serpentine North through August 23. These nonchalantly referenced "other thoughts," however, are far from just afterthoughts. They comprise 10 new portraits and explorations of abstraction from 2025, a year that evidently saw Hockney busy hatching new experiments on the pictorial plane.
Arts
Miscellaneous
fromJuxtapoz
1 month ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - No Longer, Not Yet-Paintings on Paper: Jonathan Wateridge @ GRIMM, Amsterdam

Jonathan Wateridge's paintings on paper capture erased moments and lost states from his larger canvas work, staging uncanny midcentury Los Angeles scenes with psychological tension and ambiguous narrative.
World news
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

The week around the world in 20 pictures

Photographers documented the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Ramadan in Gaza, Russian airstrikes in Odesa, and severe flooding in France.
#miniature-architecture
Artificial intelligence
fromArchDaily
1 month ago

Beyond the Render: How AI Is Restructuring Architectural Documentation

Invisible, repetitive technical work—specification, detailing, and documentation—sustains buildable, safe architecture and AI can assist by organizing and interpreting this documentation.
Photography
fromdesignyoutrust.com
1 month ago

Stunning Digital Storytelling Landscapes By Prismofpixels, Turning Quiet Streets And Town Squares Into Cinematic Moments Of Color And Light

A curated collection of diverse visual works spanning paintings, photography, design, and historical images across eras, genres, and artistic mediums.
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Explore The Met's Collection in 3D From Your Couch

Some of the 3D scans were done in collaboration with Japan's national broadcaster NHK. A voluptuous Neolithic marble, a model Nayarit home from ancient Mesoamerica, Claude Monet's 1891 painting "Haystacks (Effect of Snow and Sun)" - these are among the items in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection that are now available to the public as high-quality 3D scans.
Arts
fromBoard Game Quest
1 month ago

Sand Art Review

Sand Art is a game by Kory Jordan and published by 25th Century Games for two to four players ages 10 and up. It takes about an hour to play, and has you collecting resources and then coloring in a bottle, making art in a bottle out of sand, in case the name didn't give away the plot. Gameplay Overview: Sand Art has you gathering and mixing sand, which is used to fill your bottle.
Board games
fromThe Verge
1 month ago

Do you believe in magic?

Through the tiny window of short clips on Instagram and TikTok, Mary's world seems enchanting and vast. Bree's work exudes melancholic emotion and ethereal femininity, painting the surfaces of Mary's world in the vibrating style of stop-motion animation, dappled with sparkling light and computer-generated surfaces so convincing it feels like you could pose the model with your own hands. O'Donnell sat down with us to talk a bit about her process creating textures and her life's work making magic real.
Film
fromPCMAG
9 years ago

Meet the Team Building a Miniature NYC in a Brooklyn Warehouse

We've taken a lot of geographical license in building this thing because to miniaturize the real geography of Manhattan would be just crazy,
New York City
Remodel
fromApartment Therapy
2 months ago

I Learned the Right Way to Put Photos on My Wall, and Now I'll Never Go Back

Find, frame, and hang art and photos to dress bare walls using existing pieces, thrifted or purchased prints, appropriate frames, and correct hanging hardware.
Science
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 month ago

These jaw-dropping photographs show a new Triassic Park' of dinosaur prints in the Italian Alps

An exceptionally rich Triassic dinosaur tracksite with about 2,000 well-preserved prints was discovered on vertical rock faces in the Fraele Valley, Italian Alps.
Arts
fromColossal
1 month ago

'Architectural Fantasies' Chronicles Elaborate Creations by Self-Taught Artists

Self-taught artists across the U.S. create distinctive vernacular environments using salvaged and found materials, driven by spiritual fervor and personal vision.
fromwww.archdaily.com
1 month ago

Museum of Broken Relationships - Chiang Mai / STA

Napat Pattrayanond + 20 More SpecsLess Specs Napat Pattrayanond Text description provided by the architects. Museum Of Broken Relationships is a renovation and a transformation of a historical Chiang Mai building into a museum space. The building, originally a shop and a warehouse built in 1904, had already been altered various times.
Renovation
UX design
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Virtual Museums: A Closer Look at This Exit Strategy

Virtual museums improve access but cannot fully replicate physical presence, and they pose accessibility, preservation, and trust challenges.
UK news
fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago

Museum's building plans too flashy, critics say

Proposed British Museum security pavilions and a Mediterranean lawn exhibit face conservation objections for harming Greek Revival symmetry and appearing "too flashy".
Education
fromArchDaily
1 month ago

Beyond the Classroom: Six Unbuilt Projects Rethinking Educational Architecture

Educational architecture imagines adaptive, landscape-integrated learning environments that respond to changing social, ecological, and pedagogical values across diverse unbuilt proposals.
fromAeon
2 months ago

There's a gentle artistry to a museum taxidermist's craft | Aeon Videos

This short captures Tim Bovard, the staff taxidermist for the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, as he reflects on over five decades spent perfecting his craft. Sparked by a childhood fascination with the museum's dioramas that never faded, Bovard has devoted his career to shaping what he calls the 'illusion of life' - a process that requires both scientific precision and imaginative interpretation.
Philosophy
Mindfulness
fromApartment Therapy
2 months ago

13 Creative Ways to Fill an Analog Bag if You Want to Stop Staring at Your Phone

An analog bag is a portable tote filled with tactile items to replace phone use, encourage hobbies, reduce doomscrolling, and provide relaxation and accomplishment.
Real estate
fromSocial Media Explorer
2 months ago

How to Photograph New Construction Builds Like a Pro - Social Media Explorer

Use strategic lighting, staging, and composition to convey scale, warmth, and lifestyle when photographing empty new-construction homes.
Television
fromWIRED
2 months ago

The Inevitable Rise of the Art TV

Art-focused televisions transform unused black screens into matte, framed artworks, appealing especially to people in smaller urban homes and driving a new product trend.
Arts
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

three suspended digital screens translate AI imagery into luminous spatial installation

UNFOLD PLANE's spatial installation translates artificial intelligence concepts into an integrated architectural environment using suspended screens, dynamic lighting, and reflective surfaces that respond to visitor movement.
World news
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

The week around the world in 20 pictures

Global photojournalists documented ICE operations, Russian airstrikes, protests in Greenland and Sakhnin, and the Africa Cup of Nations final in Rabat last week.
fromApartment Therapy
1 month ago

The Clever Way to Turn Your Home into a Curated Art Gallery

LG Gallery+ is a new visual curation service for LG TVs - and a brilliant way to make your home more unique and personalized. It lets you express your ever-changing creativity with a massive library of classic art, digital and 3D artwork, scenery, games, and more. With more than 4,500 options to choose from, you can turn your LG TV into a world-class art gallery, a peaceful forest, or an homage to your favorite video game - all in the same day.
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fromArchitectural Digest
2 months ago

The Best Full Length Mirrors for Picturesque Spaces

Full-length mirrors expand space, capture full outfits, and serve as functional decor that complements styles from minimalist to glam while adding dimension and storage options.
Renovation
fromArchDaily
1 month ago

Rooms as Heritage: How Interior Typologies Carry Cultural Memory

Cultural memory often survives in domestic interiors and everyday practices rather than visible architectural facades.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

It's not a documentary': costume designers on ditching accuracy for spectacle

Contemporary, anachronistic costume design prioritizes storytelling and spectacle over historical accuracy, blending modern and historical influences to create bold, playful visuals.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

The week around the world in 20 pictures

The brutal crackdown in Iran, ICE in Minneapolis, Russian aistrikes in Kyiv and heavy rain in Gaza the past seven days as captured by the world's leading photojournalists
World news
Remodel
fromArchDaily
2 months ago

Forum, Depot, Maze: Toward a Plural Ecology of Museums

Museums should shift from fixed, authoritative narratives to porous spatial ecologies that grant visitors greater agency and make process and back-of-house visible.
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

Treasures worth thousands: homeowners discover vintage items hidden in walls during renovation - Silicon Canals

Picture this: you're knee-deep in renovation dust, crowbar in hand, when something unexpected tumbles from behind century-old plaster. A yellowed envelope? A strange metal box? That moment when your heart skips because you realize you might have just found something extraordinary. For some lucky homeowners, these discoveries turn out to be worth thousands of dollars, transforming a simple home improvement project into an unexpected treasure hunt.
Renovation
Photography
fromItsnicethat
2 months ago

Andrew B. Myers shows us how he magnifies his brilliant miniature worlds

Andrew B Myers combines warm, organic manual processes with digital techniques to transform small objects into large, curious imagery for major clients.
Philosophy
fromArchDaily
1 month ago

When Do Buildings Begin to Matter? Rethinking Heritage in Local Time

Global heritage systems prioritize longevity and material authenticity rooted in European slow-growth models, disadvantaging rapidly changing cities where cultural time operates unevenly.
Design
fromTasting Table
1 month ago

The Most Adorable Kitchen Decor Starts With Tiny Hobby Lobby Finds - Tasting Table

Use inexpensive miniature pieces from Hobby Lobby’s dollhouse aisle to create colorful, kitschy kitchen wall or backsplash displays for under $10 per item.
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
2 months ago

patterned tiles extend from curved walls to furniture in layered retail exhibition booth

Accessible from three sides, the booth is shaped by approach and visibility rather than a single frontal orientation. The primary entry is marked by an angled portal set back from the site edge, establishing a layered visual field rather than an immediate overview. From this offset threshold, overlapping planes of tiles, textures, and color unfold gradually, encouraging movement through depth rather than direct access.
Design
Photography
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

The photo we want to take is closer than we think': Dominic Dahncke's best phone picture

Photographic opportunity often exists close to home; cultivating a curious, childlike gaze reveals meaningful images in everyday surroundings.
Design
fromianVisits
1 month ago

Why the Mendini exhibition made me feel like I shouldn't be there

Exhibitions of once-radical design risk feeling familiar unless curators explain historical significance and design intentions to engage non-expert visitors.
#contemporary-art
Arts
fromColossal
1 month ago

Itty-Bitty Signs and Portals by Michael Pederson Reimagine Everyday Urban Details

Michael Pederson creates playful miniature interventions that transform mundane urban and natural occurrences into moments of wonder and curiosity.
Design
fromArchDaily
2 months ago

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Opens Memoryscapes Exhibition Exploring the Design Methodologies of ATTA and DnA

Memoryscapes examines how archaeological, anthropological, and geological approaches and fieldwork enable architects to use cultural memory and site-specific histories to design locally grounded futures.
Design
fromArchDaily
2 months ago

Integrating Creative Spaces: Designing Art Studio Additions at Home

Homes now function as adaptable frameworks for living, producing, and creating, requiring flexible configurations to support artists' creative practice.
Arts
fromFast Company
1 month ago

Lego's new Monet-inspired set is full of hidden details

Lego recreated Monet's Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies as a 3,179-piece set using playful elements to emulate Impressionist brushstrokes.
fromBerlin Art Link
1 month ago

An Interview with Monia Ben Hamouda | Berlin Art Link

Monia Ben Hamouda's work weaves calligraphy, material transformation and ancestral memory into sculptures and installations that oscillate between language and form. In conversation, we traced the conceptual and sensory threads of her practice, unfolding through key works that reflect on heritage, embodiment and translation. Using materials such as iron, stone and pigment, her installations become sites where history is not only referenced but physically felt.
Arts
Design
fromArchDaily
2 months ago

A Day in the Bazaar: When Architecture Is Observed in Time

Bazaars function as temporal systems where spatial order emerges from repetition, occupation, and shared timing rather than fixed architectural form.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

A View From the Easel

An artist in a Bronx studio paints multiple figurative works simultaneously, drawing inspiration from local institutions, music, and the neighborhood's vibrancy.
Design
fromArchitectural Digest
1 month ago

This Centuries-Old Dutch Ceramic Is Having a Comeback

Grid City is a free monthly NYC running series led by designers that combines architecture-focused guided runs, community conversation, and breakfast, open to all levels.
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

Urban sketchers find the sublime in the city block

"We had just moved to Seattle, and I started drawing. Like every day I drew the commuters on the bus, I would draw the mountains, the buildings," remembered Campanario.
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fromArtnet News
1 month ago

The Met and Lego Reimagine Monet's Water Lilies as a 3,179-Brick Art Set

The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Lego are offering a 3,179-piece, $249.99 Lego Art kit reproducing Monet's Bridge Over a Pond of Water Lilies.
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
2 months ago

pixel virtual gardens and robotic installations animate miguel chevalier's solo digital art show

Digital by Nature: The Art of Miguel Chevalier at Kunsthalle München presents the artist's largest solo exhibition in Europe to date, curated by Franziska Stöhr. The exhibition surveys Miguel Chevalier's practice from the early 1980s to the present, tracing his sustained engagement with digital technologies as both tools and subjects of artistic inquiry. Born in 1959 in Mexico City and based in Paris, Chevalier has worked with computers as a creative medium for more than four decades.
Arts
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
2 months ago

In the age of AI, can art expertise be digitised?

Recently, AI decided that a painting long thought to be a copy of Caravaggio's The Lute Player is actually by the master, while another version of the same subject, previously thought to be authentic, is not. Both conclusions were disputed by the former Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Keith Christiansen. A similar debate erupted in March 2025 when AI declared that portions of The Bath of Diana, also long believed to be a copy, could have been painted by Peter Paul Rubens.
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