Killer Cuts

Tokyo-based visual artist Ryohei Tanaka has taken the simple art of folding a piece of paper and cutting it with scissors to a whole new level.

In his latest short-run edition book "Killer Cuts & Killing Shapes," hundreds of intricate caricatures spawn from Tanaka's clever cuts as his childhood artistic pursuit with scissors continues.

Big Googly-Eye is Watching

I've been following the work of Golan Levin for quite sometime but never expected this. In his latest interactive installation "Double-Taker (Snout)," the role of spectator is reversed as an autonomous eight-foot robotic snout responds in unexpected ways to the presence and movement of people.

The goal of this kinetic system is to perform convincing "double-takes" at its visitors, in which the sculpture appears to be continually surprised by the presence of its own viewers — communicating, without words, that there is something uniquely surprising about each person passing by.

Earthworks

In similar scale and materiality as the great land artists of the late '60s and early '70s, Jim Denevan draws large-scale sand murals with a mere stick. Where Robert Smithson's "Spiral Jetty" stands the test of time, Denevan's earthworks embrace the ephemeral while his works are washed by the sea within hours of completion.

Denevan's meditation between man and earth are also practiced through his culinary open-air dinners—a series of traveling meals cooked with farm-fresh ingredients served on the farm itself.