A daily field guide to visual culture
Art, architecture, nature, and design, discovered and shared since 2009.
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.
Zion is the first national park to own an all-terrain wheelchair and lend it out free. How it works, where it goes, and where to camp so you get the whole day.
Where the fog is thickest, why it forms there, and how deserts, redwoods and beetles learned to drink it. The complete guide to the foggiest places on Earth, from the Grand Banks to the Namib.
The complete guide to Googie architecture: where the name came from, the architects behind it, 20 buildings to know, a one-day Los Angeles route, and why the space-age style is finally being taken seriously.
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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These tiny insects have the seeming ability to teleport when they move.