Art Is

Artist Raushan has released a handmade miniature clay house complete with a tiny kitchen set, including small utensils and a decorative tree. The craft piece has attracted well over 1.8 million likes, with viewers praising the detailed, do-it-yourself clay work and the skill involved in shaping everyday kitchen items at miniature scale.

A mural by a New Yorker cover artist has been unveiled at Oakland's new Jewish Community Center in California, bringing a desert oasis scene to the building. The work is drawing attention in local Jewish community media as the new JCC opens its doors, highlighting the role of public art in the center's identity.

The StorySeedLibrary project has published its 150th illustration, contributed by the artist known as the Lemonaut. The piece depicts an OpenFlexure microscope and highlights open hardware collaboration in engineering and science, described as something largely absent from solarpunk visual language so far. The project collects images as prompts for solarpunk fiction writers, and this addition widens its scope toward scientific and technical themes.

A Chicago arts roundup highlights four events for the week ahead, led by an exhibition of Mexican folk art and a local zine festival. The list offers readers a quick guide to cultural happenings, from traditional crafts to DIY publishing, as part of regular weekly arts coverage in the city.

A line from Hamlet, in which the ghost of the king tells his son he is 'doomed for a certain time to walk the night', is being shared alongside William Blake's artwork illustrating the scene. The post pairs Shakespeare's tragedy with themes of gothic literature and folklore, attracting attention from readers of classic drama and art.

Day 7 of the Glitchtober 2026 art challenge carries the prompt 'Inertia', described as an object in motion tending to stay in motion, like a speeding bicycle with no rider to stop or accelerate it. Participants are sharing glitch artworks made with databending and overcompression techniques, set against backgrounds of randomly generated DOS CP-437 characters as they work through the month's daily prompts.

Paul Strathern's 2016 book The Medici: Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance is drawing fresh attention from readers, who praise it as a vivid, dramatic account of the family that became one of the most powerful forces in Italian history. The book traces the Medici's rise through banking, political influence and patronage of Renaissance art, and is being recommended as an accessible, engaging piece of popular history.

Developers and designers are sharing a website demonstrating animated ASCII art rendered directly in web pages, showing how the classic text-based art form can be brought to life in the browser. The project is drawing attention for its nostalgic aesthetic and lightweight technical approach to animation.

An artist has shared a surreal, red-toned artwork inspired by the Super-Kamiokande neutrino observatory in Japan, blending imagery of the physics detector with retro Unix computing aesthetics. The piece is drawing attention among art and science enthusiasts online, who appreciate the unusual fusion of particle physics and technology culture.

A photographer in Montreal, Quebec has shared autumn landscape photographs showcasing natural colour gradients, shot with a Nikon Zf camera. The images highlight the seasonal foliage and botanical detail typical of the region in fall, and are being shared with photography and nature enthusiasts in art and landscape photography communities.

An ink illustration of a great blue heron is circulating among art and bird enthusiasts, tagged under art, birds and illustration. Viewers are responding to the detailed rendering of the wading bird, a familiar sight across North American wetlands. The piece reflects ongoing interest in traditional ink work and nature-themed illustration, with engagement modest but positive.

A 1951 woodblock print by Hasui Kawase, 'After Autumn Rain, Nanzenji, Kyoto', is being shared by art lovers, linked to an NHK World programme. Kawase, a leading figure of Japan's shin-hanga movement, is admired for his atmospheric landscapes of temples and seasonal scenery, and this quiet depiction of a Kyoto temple in rain is striking a chord with viewers.

RM, leader of the K-pop group BTS, has put his personal art collection on public display, drawing large crowds of fans to the exhibition. The show offers a rare look at the singer's tastes beyond music and has become a draw for both art audiences and BTS followers. Coverage highlights how his involvement is bringing new, younger visitors to the gallery.

An artist has shared a new painting celebrating moody, stormy days, created with Schmincke Horadam gouache on Arches watercolour paper. The landscape work, tagged under art, watercolour and nature, has drawn attention and appreciative engagement from viewers drawn to its atmospheric take on bad weather as a subject worth celebrating.

Japanese boy band LIL LEAGUE has announced a Singapore performance on Friday, 2 October at 1:00 PM SGT, taking place at LASALLE College of the Arts' Campus Green as part of MUSIC MATTERS LIVE 2026. Entry is free, and the group says it is excited to perform for fans in Singapore at the music showcase event.

An artist known as JoyousJoyness has released a holographic sticker based on her own capybara drawing, promoting it as her 'Sticker of the Day' with links to her online shop. The piece is tagged under art, sticker and capybara, fitting the ongoing popularity of capybara-themed merchandise among animal lovers and collectors.

Images of origami cats designed by Japanese folders Kyohei Katsuta and Gen Hagiwara are being shared and admired on social media, with a link to diagrams hosted on origami.me. The post, tagged with art, design, cats and origami, has drawn dozens of likes as paper-folding enthusiasts discuss the three different cat models and the designers' folding techniques.

Artist Faysal has released a collection of simple, satisfying art hacks that viewers can try at home without special equipment. The demonstration of easy techniques and creative tricks has drawn millions of likes, with audiences sharing the ideas as accessible ways to make art and relax with visually pleasing content.

Studio Sonorous Arts has announced Dust and Distance, an immersive casual horse-riding audio game. The release debuts the studio's new category, Saddle and Steam, aimed at audio-first gaming experiences. Players mount up for a ride described as a journey through dust and distance. Announcement drew early attention in accessibility-minded gaming circles.

The French talent show La France a un incroyable talent is drawing attention after performer Young Min delivered a striking sand art act, transforming sand into images live on stage. The performance, covered by 20 Minutes, is being praised for its artistry and has put the contestant in the spotlight during the current season.