Art

The best part about winning computer solitaire is the flurry of cards that fills the screen after making the final move. Lars Marcus Vedeler and Theo Tveteras of experimental design team skrekkogle have now translated this iconic moment into a physical 3D sculpture of the jumping cards.

Origami, the Japanese art of folding paper, is impressive enough on its own, let alone when it's done in miniature form. Yet that's what artist Anja Markiewicz does, creating amazingly tiny sculptures of things like animals and snowflakes out of paper less than an inch in width.

How would you react if a painting suddenly came to life? Alexa Meade's painted people look like works of art but move like humans -- making for an eerie sight. Whereas most artists would just paint their subjects on a canvas, Meade actually turns her subjects INTO the canvas. She creates life-size installations that are shockingly exact in their similarity to actual acrylic paintings. Upon first g

Unless this is your first day on the internet, you're almost certainly familiar with Chris Crocker. He was the mascara-smudged Britney Spears uber-fan who pleaded with the world to just leave her alone already during the singer's tragic, head-shearing meltdown back in 2007.

Artist Curtis Kilhorn is making it his mission to restore beauty to dead trees in the Colorado wilderness. Kilhorn paints their remains in a rainbow of bright colors, turning a dried-up tree skeleton into a technicolor conversation piece, and will install his creations in customers' backyards. He says the intention of the installations is to remind people "of the splendor of the world around

Remember those connect-the-dot pictures from your childhood? Multiply that by about 6,000 and you get artist Thomas Pavitte's incredible new project that just might be the single most complex connect-the-dots image ever. Not only did he design the illustration, he connected the 6,293 dots himself. It took Pavitte nine hours to connect them all, revealing a legendary masterpiece as you've never seen it before. See what famous work appears after the jump:

Want to see Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez in the buff? Well, you can, thanks to sculptor Daniel Edwards, who recently unveiled a bronze metallic statue of the two singers and lovebirds fused together.

Even the grungy apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Frances Bean Cobain, the 18-year-old daughter of late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain and Hole singer Courtney Love, showed off her tattoos and puffed on a cigarette for a series of black-and-white photos taken by fashion designer Hedi Slimane.

If Andy Warhol were alive today, how would he react to modern culture? The iconic artist, who died in 1987 at age 58, would probably flip for internet microcelebrities on sites like YouTube, which affirms his "15 minutes of fame" theory. To commemorate Warhol's 83rd birthday this past Saturday, artist Edgar Askelovic created a sculpture that imagines what he would have looked like had he

Soap & Glory has a really interesting way of expressing gratitude: the British beauty company recently installed a giant sculpture of a bathing lady in Hamburg, Germany's Alster Lake.

Our friends at PopCrush assembled an epic list of the worst album covers released in the top half of 2011, including atrocities from Lady Gaga, Limp Bizkit and 311. We must say, there's something about the digital age that makes artists release pretty awful cover art -- could it be that in the age of Spotify and iTunes, they think these'll never actually get seen any larger than thumbnail-size? Re

Depending on their surroundings, some trees grow abnormally, with their trunk and branches conforming to nearby debris or blockages. Former jeweler Peter "Pook" Cook has perfected a process to replicate this himself and actually "sculpt" growing trees into specific formations. Cook began doing this in the late 80s, inspired by fig trees growing on a cliff face. It took him year

In a move that demonstrates some seriously pro parenting, this savvy new Dad has paints a wall-size 'Calvin & Hobbes' mural in his son Ryan's playroom. It's hard to get too upset about that monster in your closet when there's a lovable tiger on your wall, right? This terrific time-lapse video documents the reproduction of cartoonist Bill Watterson's iconic characters from start to finish. L

There's nothing better than a nice ice cream cone on a hot midsummer day -- unless, of course, it's made from scoops of raw ground beef. Sweet Meat, a succulent new project by artist Jasmin Schuller, transforms meat products into deceptively yummy-looking goodies, like slices of cake, popsicles and petits fours.

Harrison Ford's 40th movie, 'Cowboys and Aliens,' was released on Friday. To commemorate the occasion, the National Post's Steve Murray put together 'Forty Fords,' showing Ford in character from each film -- beginning with his first flick, 1967's 'A Time for Killing,' all the way through his new sci-fi picture that opens today.