Category: Art

African rock art image project

Africa’s rock art is as diverse as the continent itself. In 2013, the African rock art image project team began cataloguing around 25,000 digital photographs […]

The Haunting Art Installation in an Abandoned Church You Need to Visit

The dilapidated church, which has laid unkept since the 1960s, has been transformed into a powerful art installation and tourist destination by artist Jakub Hadrava. […]

Artist Spruces Up Thrift Paintings by Adding Video Game, Sci-Fi Icons

Artist Dave Pollot has found a way to re-invent old paintings. read more Artist Spruces Up Thrift Paintings by Adding Video Game, Sci-Fi Icons – […]

Frescos in Vatican City Sistine Chapel lit up for first time with LED

“Then God said: ‘Let there be light’ and there was light” just as it reads in the Bible. There is a new light now shining […]

Pigments and palettes from the past – science of Indigenous art

Visitors to Uluru might also find themselves at Mutitjulu Waterhole in the company of a travel guide filled with wisdom about the meaning of the […]

‘Alien abduction’ artist admits he fooled everyone

When artist Lloyd Canning announced last month that he had been abducted by aliens and was being used by them to communicate with Earth, his […]

The Lonely Train Yard

Not too far south of Tokyo sits a yard of retired trains of varying ages. The oldest residents are two steam locomotives dating back over […]

Aboriginal rock art discovered on Sydney’s northern beaches a major ancient archaeological find

A series of ancient hand stencils, either white or red in colour, and motifs representing eels and a crescent moon, we’re found on rock faces […]

When Medieval Scribes Turned Damaged Paper into Clever Art

The thick, polished animal skin used as paper during the Medieval era wasn’t very strong. It was really easy to rip during cleaning and preparation. […]

These Unused Cybermen Designs Are Utterly Creeptastic

The latest version of the Cybermen on Doctor Who looks sleek and pretty cool… but they could have looked more insectoid and shown more of […]

Haunting train graveyard filled with carriages used to ferry millions to Auschwitz

THESE sinister images show the eerie insides of an abandoned train yard lost out of its time in rural, present-day Hungary. read more Haunting train […]

Classic Science Fiction Book Covers from Hungary Are Mind-Blowing

Classic Science Fiction Book Covers from Hungary Are Mind-Blowing read more Classic Science Fiction Book Covers from Hungary Are Mind-Blowing.

Decoding Russian criminal tattoos – in pictures

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From the 1960s to the 1980s, Arkady Bronnikov visited correctional facilities all over the Soviet Union and photographed thousands of tattooed inmates to decode their […]

Physicist Puts Time on Timeless Monet Painting

The Impressionist art movement began Nov. 13, 1872, right around 7:35 a.m. local time. That’s the moment Claude Monet put brush to canvas to depict […]

Looking Up: Picturing the moon

All this week the moon hangs bright in the evening sky, adding to the beauty over our heads. Full moon is on Monday, Sept. 8. […]

‘The Walking Disney’ Art Series Gives Your Favorite Disney Characters a Zombie Apocalypse Makeover

I don’t know about you, but I regularly wonder how some of my favorite fictional characters would fair in the zombie apocalypse — but hey, […]

New Ghost In The Shell 25th Anniversary Poster

Japanese anime Ghost In The Shell is an Empire-acclaimed world cinema great, with the manga on which it’s based celebrating its 25th anniversary. To mark […]

History of the occult: Magic calendar by Austin de Croze and Manuel Orazi.

These calendar pages come from the rare book Calendrier Magique, which was printed in France in 1895 in a small run of 777 copies. The […]

Five hundred years of Satanic art

Poor devil: He used to terrify people. Now he’s reduced to hawking razor blades and ham.. A new exhibition at Stanford University’s Cantor Arts Center, […]

Photographer Illustrates The Beauty In Abandon And Decay In Stunning Urbex Collection

How is it that when an average person spots the decrepit remnants of a building that is long past it’s days of glory, they find […]

When The Aliens Invade, Be Nice To Them

Ben Mauro is an artist who has got to work on, well, all kinds of cool stuff. Elysium, The Hobbit, Man of Steel, Spider-Man 2, […]

Ghost In the Shell Art Exhibit Celebrates 25 Years of Futuristic Suspense

It’s been 25 years since Masamune Shirow’s classic Ghost in the Shell manga was first published. Since then, there’s been a wealth of movies, TV […]

Patrick Woodroffe: Fantasy artist who illustrated science-fiction books and album covers

Patrick Woodroffe was a prolific artist whose fantastical illustrations adorned paintings, innumerable science-fiction books, record sleeves and posters. He likened his work to the “cartography […]

WILLIAM MORTENSEN – EARLY 1900s OCCULT PHOTOGRAPHY

Skilled in the photographic genre of pictorialism Mortensen created romantic imagery with almost painting like effects. The son of Danish immigrants he was born in […]

Always Have Your Wingman

The bolted front door was unlocked by a facilities manager who walked around the first floor with me while telling a tale of WW I […]