A daily field guide to visual culture
Art, architecture, nature, and design, discovered and shared since 2009.
From painters of the quiet suburban hour to worlds that fold, one-line drawings, vintage posters and paint that left the canvas, this is a curated tour of the most extraordinary painting and illustration we have ever featured.
These huge public sculptures bring a sense of joy, whimsy and curious-humor to our often too-boring built environment.
Few artists have ever reshaped the human perception of space, light, and obsession quite like Yayoi Kusama.
A deer in the intersection, a fox by the closed pool. Cincinnati painter Nicholas Moegly paints the hour a neighborhood belongs to no one.
From gravity-defying paintings to double-exposure dreamscapes, these are the eight most hypnotic surreal artworks we’ve discovered, and adored.
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Eight curated destinations across architecture, nature, art, design, and beyond: the best of Moss & Fog, all in one place.
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Objects Worth Keeping
Four things with a maker behind them, chosen the way we choose what runs on the site: because someone got it exactly right.
From painters of the quiet suburban hour to worlds that fold, one-line drawings, vintage posters and paint that left the canvas, this is a curated tour of the most extraordinary painting and illustration we have ever featured.
Pollen Robotics built a 25 cm open-source biped with an articulated beak, seven trained behaviors and roller skates. It sold 10,000 units in a week.
Three oceans, the highest tides on Earth, and cities where half the neighbors were born somewhere else. Our case for Canada, with the imagery to match.
These huge public sculptures bring a sense of joy, whimsy and curious-humor to our often too-boring built environment.
From gravity-defying paintings to double-exposure dreamscapes, these are the eight most hypnotic surreal artworks we’ve discovered, and adored.
Artist Leandro Erlich sank 22 concrete cars off Miami to seed a coral reef. Inside ReefLine, the underwater sculpture park where art is built to be overtaken.
Mitsubishi is taking a small swing at a big trend, and it might be the most relatable “adventure vehicle” concept in a while.
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Point a laser at a birch tree and leave it running all night, and you will watch the whole crown sink by ten centimeters, then lift itself back up before dawn.