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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

When Maurizio Cattelan taped a banana to a wall and called it 'The Comedian' in 2019, he probably didn’t expect the art world to go

Cuban puppeteer Víctor Ariosa, aka Galeria Morionet, has turned painting into a live puppet performance. His wooden marionette, Morionet, holds the brush, dips it into