"We currently have around five million artworks indexed, and strive to eventually index all museum art in the world," the creators say.
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For Koh, an under-appreciated detail of a book's construction becomes the highlight.
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Birds or figures? These are the ten design proposals for a new European banknote.
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What's not to love about a pillow with personality?
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For more than four decades, the artist has reimagined the technical and sculptural capabilities of one simple material: twigs.
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'Geometry of Play' comprises murals across three pickleball courts, marking the first artist-designed versions in the country.
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"Luceros y Penumbres," designed by Daniel González and engineered by Matthew Reinhart, is an ode to learning and discovery.
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A short documentary visits the sacred art environment in southwestern Nigeria.
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Visualize your local weather with art history.
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The new book from David Navarro and Martyna Sobecka of Zupagrafika highlights a wide range of futuristic arenas.
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Thousands of handmade ceramic tiles form the collaborative "Shape of Movement."
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From cows sculpted out of butter to seed art and crazy foods, ingenuity is as much a part of the tradition as showcasing time-honored practices.
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"Thread becomes a way of drawing, connecting, and constructing forms," the artist says.
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"Children, in particular, tend to view objects with a freedom that is less constrained by function, convention, or rules," Yun says.
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The antithesis of Fortnite or Grand Theft Auto.
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A 300-year-old shipwreck, but make it fashion.
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Now in its sixth year, the open-air public art exhibition highlights 20 pieces from previous years.
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Hugh Broughton Architects incorporates designs by artist and illustrator James Lambert, who interprets the distinctive character of each location.
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130+ artists, 130+ distinctive takes on the household staple.
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A team of artists and artisans created the figure from a fallen tree, willow branches, and stone.
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When Valerie Lueth of Tugboat Printshop sets out to make a woodblock print, it's rare that she only uses a single block.
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The actor engages in a bit of trial and error in a "dream lab" where anything is possible.
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“Human rhythm is what gives the material its character," says the artist.
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"One of my personal obsessions is trying to convince people to hang glass on the wall instead of in the window."
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The show opening at the Brooklyn Museum this week reaffirms Iris van Herpen’s one-of-a-kind approach to sustainable, sculptural fashion.
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The ethereal, life-size sculpture is an ode to the historic Herkenrode Abbey.
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SpY's latest installation suspends metallic discs inside of an industrial space as part of Bright Festival.
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Landsat, a NASA and USGS program, has documented the surface of Earth from space since 1972.
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The expansive model consists of 340 individual sections, each constructed with materials like balsa wood, cardboard, and glue.
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"Play is how we give permission." —Vitor Freire
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"Earth / Tree" harnesses komorebi, which reflects the unique interplay of light and shadow that occurs when the sun filters through the trees.
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Art Nouveau style is reimagined in bold, otherworldly custom wallpapers.
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The Scotland-based artist is creating hundreds of paper models based on Japanese designer Sanzo Wada's color combinations.
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"L'Ile Folie" is a contemporary landmark perched above a pond in Cary, North Carolina.
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The V&A's National Art Library is home to more than a million publications related to art, design, and performance—even really, really tiny ones.
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New York-based ad agency Mischief reimagines NPR's logo into inquisitive prompts.
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"I think of playgrounds as a primer of shapes and functions; simple, mysterious and evocative; thus educational," Isamu Noguchi said.
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Equipo de Arquitectura embraced the house's tropical surroundings in San Bernardino.
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The book from Letterform Archive celebrates the vivacity of French sign painting from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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A masterpiece of Expressionist brick architecture, Grundtvigs Kirke in Copenhagen is medieval-meets-modern.
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A new book by Jo Farb Hernández, featuring photos by Fred Scruton, highlights artist-built environments around the U.S.
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Do you think I'm made of money?
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"What does it mean to care for, drape, dress, and accommodate change and instability?"
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Spanish design firm PET Lamp puts some of the millions upon millions of discarded one-time-use plastics to use.
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"Ninho Globo" evokes a nest or a giant seed pod tumbling through the landscape.
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From the artist's kitchen table to international travels, animated digital collages celebrate a sense of place.
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From a single material, a Hyderabad-based design studio creates a wide range of site-specific installations and furnishings.
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Facey works out of a shed that is set up much the same as any other wood shop.
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At Villa Lontana in Rome, 'Bar Far' is a functional bar and an art installation in one.
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A simple material blossoms into large-scale assemblages, narratives, and designs.
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Reimagining a 1962 modernist interior.
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A system of modular bricks spurred an international, participatory, educational project.
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