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Foster + Partners recently unveiled this design for a museum on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi. Foster + Partnersvia [designboom], [dezeen]

As his website states, Smith became a professional photographer by a less traditional route than most. His beautiful photos can now be found in magazines like W, Interview, Esquire and Premiere. A great story about seizing an opportunity life fortuitously throws your way. We got in touch with Smith after the post to ask him a few questions. Read that interview below. What was learning under Herb Ritts like? He had a tremendous eye and an impeccable vision....

It almost seems like ROA hasn’t taken off any time this year. Of course, we couldn’t be happier because we admire his street art so much. This time, he takes on an unusual canvas, a curving wall in Santander, Spain. ROA fills the large scale mural with his trademark animals and fossils, who appear to be sleeping. Always incredibly detailed and powerful, Roa’s art consistently amazes us. via [unurth,wooster,ekosystem]

Lightning McQueen and his Radiator Springs pals would surely approve of this hotel. The hotel also has a suite built on three levels within the building’s former control tower. V8 Hotel:Websitevia [beautiful life,dailymail]

Banksy is the gold standard when it comes to urban street art. Here are Banksy’s top 12 masterpieces of 2010. Above: 12.) San Francisco 11.) Los Angeles 10.) San Francisco 8.) Dumbo, New York 5.) San Francisco 4.) San Francisco 3.)

The sculptures, with their oversized heads and small torsos, draw out an immediate reaction. In the end, that challenge became the concept. That endless search became, at a certain point, the main idea. “Not Enough Brains to Survive” I started to think about how I could turn this idea into a sculpture. For him, the pieces represent a moment of stillness just before the fall. In particular,Not Enough Brains to Survivehas become a hallmark of Lerooy’s oeuvre....

Las esculturas, con sus enormes cabezas y cuerpos pequenos, provocan una reaccion inmediata. Al final, ese desafio se convirtio en el concepto. Esa busqueda interminable se convirtio, en cierto momento, en la idea principal. “Not Enough Brains to Survive” Empece a pensar en como podria convertir esta idea en una escultura. Para el, las piezas representan un momento de quietud justo antes de la caida. En particular,Not Enough Brains to Survivese ha convertido en un icono de la obra de Lerooy....

French artist Philippe Ramette believes nothing should ever be fake. For him, they are a statement about gravity, weightlessness, and man’s relationship to the landscape. He goes to extraordinary lengths to create his implausible set-ups, building hidden metal supports that he calls sculpture-structures. I never question whether it’s going to be complicated, he says.

Nowhere is this more apparent than with pencil art.

Have you ever experienced information overload? Or, maybe you were surfing the web a little too long and your brain started feeling mushy. 27-year-old Richard Evans createdInformation Leakto represent information overload in today’s society. The typographic artwork is acting like flowing out like tap water in an ordinary kitchen sink. Pretty much anything you might imagine, you might get your hands on. -Richard Evans Richard Evans’s blog

The dungeon-like auditorium is described as London’s darkest and dirtiest cinema. The Independentwrites The foyer boasts a few of Banksy’s latest artworks. On another is a big Hollywood-style sign for production company, Paranoid Pictures. There is an ice-cream van from which a youngish man with a goatee beard serves popcorn and soda. Guests of the premiere were presented with tins of spray paint as their parting gift. (400ml cans of Ironlak, the aerosol paint of choice for buddingstreet artists....

Dedicated artist Paul Lung spends up to 60 hours sketching these photorealistic pencil drawings. His highly detailed work has been written about in newspapers likeThe SunandTelegraph.

Made of local Jeju stone and concrete, the museum blurs the boundary between man-made and natural. Jeju Provincial Art Museum’s primary functions include research, conservation, exhibition, and education.