The Dubai Metro stations are being turned into art museums to display artworks and creations from different themes and cultures, by order of the city's royal sheikh. The trains will also be decorated inside and out to reflect the project.
This artist is spending a week making thousands of sandwiches for the poor in honor of all the school lunches her mother packed over the years.
When this teenager was forced to wear a body brace for two months, she transformed the bland medical device into steampunk body armor.
A local artist turned snow drifts into songbird sculptures after this weekend's winter storm swept up the U.S. East Coast.
Star Wars director George Lucas will donate the $4.05 Billion he will receive from the sale of Lucasfilm Ltd. to Disney to a foundation focused on education.
This cake has Star Wars-worthy special effects, and the help of Yoda, to make it appear to float in mid-air. . . Seriously.
Players in a German orchestra mingled with crowds on a Cologne plaza recently and one by one joined in to play the well-known tones from a galaxy far, far away.
Using the lifejackets that kept thousands of lives afloat in the ocean, humanitarians used those very same safety vests to spell out a sign of optimism.
Despite continued fighting in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, parents united by grief and loss came together from both sides in a 70-day vigil for peace. An idea to paint a peace mural was born, and it is now displayed at the UN.
San Francisco-based artist Hannah Rothstein has created a brilliant photo series that imagines how famous artists would plate their Thanksgiving dishes, using turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberries and green beans to illustrate.
Blind and visually impaired people are finally getting to enjoy some of the world's greatest art. The novel exhibit uses 3D, textured reliefs for touching.
IKEA held a contest to recruit ten children to draw their "dream stuffed animal". Their art was turned into toys to raise money to help kids worldwide.
Los Angeles artist Mary Beth Heffernan is the rare person who decided to actually try to solve a problem half way around the world.
Even the colorblind could enjoy Bob Ross' "Joy of Painting" when he did this special episode for them using only shades of gray.
Online art sales have painted a picture of relief for Syrian refugees: $31,000 dollars and counting, so far.
Photoshop Fix is a new free app that lets you retouch your pictures right on your phone or iPad.
Three years after the Panchots received the ultimate bad news delivered on their doorstep by two soldiers, a compassionate response from a stranger arrived via FedEx truck, essentially delivering the memory of their son Dale, back home. There's definitely a lot of love going in that box, says goat rancher and artist, Kaziah Hancock. She started Project Compassion, a fund that helps provide personal hand-painted portraits of soldiers killed in action, so their faces will never be forgotten.
In the hard-hit city of Philadelphia, a former art curator Barbara Chandler Allen was disgusted by cutbacks to arts funding for students, especially because it so disadvantages the poorest schools where kids are most in need of positive outlets. Lucky for the kids, Barbara stumbled onto a big idea after enlarging some of their art and realizing it was in high demand for the walls in office buildings.
Robert Thome's dream of becoming a professional athlete was shattered when he broke his neck during a high school football game. As a 15-year-old quadriplegic, he thought his life was over until in rehabilitation he learned how to use his mouth to actively pursue his second-favorite subject, art. Without the use of his hands, Robert began painting with his mouth. At age 30, he became a member of a global for-profit company that allows him to live independently with a thriving career as an artist.
Once again the creative genius of the Washington DC community is on display in the Easter candy parade of homemade art that is the annual -- and always humorous -- Peep diorama contest. Each spring the sticky critter-confections are decorated and transformed by readers of the Washington Post into scenes depicting famous books, paintings, or movies.
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