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: ...

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 ...

If you could freeze a burst of light in mid-air, it’d look a lot like the sculptures of Kansas City artist Anne Lindberg. Lindberg suspends thousands of strands of colored thread across gallery walls ...

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 ...

Gabriel Dawe's "Plexus" series is hard to describe, but even harder to photograph--think of it as weaving in colored thread in the air. (Courtesy Newark Museum) When Gabriel Dawe was growing up in ...

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 ...