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What happens when an artist decides to tidy up the world? Swiss artist Ursus Wehrli takes ordinary scenes and completely reorganises them. Cars, sunbathers, flowers,

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This cat isn’t painted. It’s made from the forest floor. Chinese artist Niu Yifei creates astonishingly lifelike images using whatever nature gives him: Twigs, leaves,

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London has a new resident on the Fourth Plinth. Tschabalala Self’s 'Lady in Blue' has arrived in Trafalgar Square, a 3.5-metre bronze sculpture portraying a

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This isn’t packaging tape stuck to a canvas. It’s paint. German artist Jochen Mühlenbrink is a master of trompe-l’œil — paintings so convincing they deliberately

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Do Ho Suh’s 'Floor' (1997–2000) is an extraordinary installation made from transparent glass panels supported by around 180,000 tiny cast plastic human figures. Each figure

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At the Amos Rex Museum in Helsinki, Argentine artist Leandro Erlich turned architecture into an optical illusion with 'Bâtiment'— a life-size building façade reflected in

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Pakistani artist Sajid Amiri creates remarkably realistic portraits and figures using nothing but industrial wire mesh. Born in Kharmang Pari, Baltistan, Amiri studied painting at

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Thomas Deininger turns rubbish into remarkably lifelike birds — but the illusion only works from the right angle. His sculptures are built from discarded plastic,

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Dennis Hong, director of UCLA’s Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa), explores the poetic side of engineering in 'The Lightness of Submission'. Blending robotics and performance,

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A painting stolen by the Nazis during the Second World War is finally set to return to the family of its rightful owner. "Portrait of