Dutch artist Madeleine Berkhemer began making sculptures from stockings in 1997, using up to 1,000 pairs of pantyhose to make each of her taut, ethereal pieces. Initially, she didn’t worry about the ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. On its face, art is often about beauty. From Mona Lisa’s demure ...

We’ve all seen the guilt-inducing videos of whales choking on plastic. According to the World Economic Forum, humans produce 400 million tons of plastic waste every year, yet only two tons gets ...

I associate plastics with superfluous packaging, ugly toys, and being bad for the environment. Generally serving as a discardable layer of some consumable good, plastic does not appear to be an ...

Pam Longobardi, commission for the cover of ‘Sierra’ magazine (2014) (all images courtesy the artist) Plastic has become a material of unique conceptual and physical importance to our society, and the ...

For Pam Longobardi, art is a form of reparation. “I travel all over the world to high-impact beaches and I collect ocean plastic from those beaches,” she said. “We are haunted by the ghosts of our ...

A grocery store featuring thousands of faux food items made entirely from discarded plastic bags opens Tuesday to the public, an artist's non-edible creation calling attention to the dangers of ...

NORTH ADAMS — In "The Plastic Bag Store," the shelves are stocked with thousands of original, hand-sculpted items — produce and meat, dry goods and toiletries, cakes and sushi rolls — all made from ...