Our brains are great at forming images out of mishmashes and blotches of color, as a pointillist will tell you. Artist Ani Abakumova has taken that idea and applied it to simple colored threads to ...

Tiny glowing dots have been the modus operandi for electronic displays since the TV was first invented. But at a Forever 21 store in New York, you’ll find a giant screen that swaps pixels for spools ...

What do you get when art meets math and computer programming? If you’re Ani Abakumova, what you get are stunning replicas of art historical masterpieces made from colored thread. The 32-year-old ...

While there are already electronic devices that detect toxic gases, they can be expensive, and require training to properly use. Soon, though, there could be a cheap and simple alternative – threads ...

Gabriel Dawe has created one of his delicate, large-scale hanging installations of colored thread at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, as part of the ambitious new ...

Brian Wills, "Untitled (YKB layered grid)" (2021-2022), single strand poly thread on oak with YKB, 36 x 36 inches (image courtesy the artist and Ochi Projects) LOS ANGELES — The pendulum of art world ...

Lieske Schreuder makes brightly colored threads and tiles out of snail excrement. She feeds a farm of hundreds of snails colored paper, and they poop out little colored pellets of snail excrement: ...

Francis Kéré was raised in the rural village of Gando, Burkina Faso, where architecture is designed through a transparent process involving the entire community. Kéré had carried those ...

This informative debut guide from quilting designer and teacher Lucas explores how thread color can add texture to a design. Addressing free-motion quilters (those who quilt with a regular domestic ...

The prismatic artwork pops against the Renwick’s 19th-century white gallery room and shimmers in the daylight like a mirage. Dawe’s artwork was created as part of an ongoing series called “Plexus”—a ...