If you get squeamish easily, you might want to stop reading. Once you start looking at artist Jordan Molina's mind-bending hand art, you won't be able to look away. Molina, who specializes in speed ...

The carved stone figure shows a mammoth from one aspect and a bison from another, mirroring the most famous ambiguous image of a rabbit and duck from the 1800s. Like many optical illusions, these ...

Optical illusions with hidden images are amazing for testing your visual powers. These illusion images challenge your brain's ...

An artist in Ireland creates mind-blowing optical illusions out of sand — and then watches them wash away. Manuel Frolich enjoys going to the beach, but he doesn’t just lounge around like most people.

Sometimes, what we see in art is not the whole story. Many classic painters were true masters of illusion, skillfully embedding hidden figures, double meanings, and visual tricks into their works. If ...

Optical illusions come in all forms, from iconic illustrations to perplexing photography, but there's one type that still never fails to blow my mind. The art of optical illusion makeup is the ...

J.D. Hillberry's trompe l'oeil pencil-and-charcoal drawings have caused confusion at more than one art festival. It's not called trompe l'oeil (trick the eye) for nothing. "A group of people were ...

In every one of these side-by-sides from artist Howard Lee (and there are ten of them), one is the real object and the other is just a hyperrealistic drawing. Some of these drawings look so real that ...

The greatest takeaway from my years in landscape architecture is the importance of illusion to design. It is a way of arranging things and selecting materials that combine to create a break from ...

Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Boston’s Fanuiel Hall. Union Station in Washington D.C. The World Trade Center. These landmark, iconic developments have something in common: Long before they ...