Not a bug splat: This massive portrait is a message to drone operators
This portrait of a girl tells a story larger than the massive piece of vinyl it is printed on. Unfurled in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region of ...
Unnumbered sparks fly through the sky, created by cellphone signals
“It looks like it’s holding up the clouds.” “It’s like a sky jellyfish.” “I love how the light moves across it along with the sound.” ...
7 ways to have fun with DNA
[ted id=1942] When TED Fellow Gabriel Barcia-Colombo saw an extraction of strawberry DNA for the first time, he was smitten. “I’d never thou...
Janet Echelman begins installation of 745-foot aerial sculpture in Vancouver: A making-of gallery
Janet Echelman is installing her new sculpture as we speak. Not in a gallery or on a pedestal, but instead soaring over the middle of downto...
Art that will make you laugh: Sketches and behind-the-scenes images from Aparna Rao
Aparna Rao makes the kind of art that makes you go “awwwwww,” even if you are the kind of person who would never make such a noise. In today...
“I wanted to put my eye in there”: JR on his collaboration with the New York City ballet
Artist JR’s latest project turns the floor of the David H. Koch Theater, home of the New York City Ballet, into a swirl of bodies. For it, J...
How to build a micronation: Fellows Friday with artist Jorge Mañes Rubio
TED2014 Fellow Jorge Mañes Rubio is an artist and perpetual tourist who investigates invisible, forgotten places — Chinese cities subm...
Gallery: Beautiful words from TEDxMet, immortalized as art
When the lights went down at TEDxMet, a TEDx event hosted by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in October, anyone looking very closely could se...
Everything You Are Looking For: TED Fellows Ryan Holladay and Alicia Eggert have a conversation about their new exhibit
Alicia Eggert makes kinetic sculptures that investigate the nature of language and time. Meanwhile, Ryan Holladay is a musical artist who cr...