As Sheryl Crow snarls her way through “If It Makes You Happy,” the music video for one of her most popular songs shows her trapped inside an L.A. County Museum of Natural History diorama of a simple ...

At first glance, it’s a simple scene. Six adult bison and a calf mill around a stream. But Matt Davis invites me to look closer. We are at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, where Davis is an ...

1. Introduction / Sue Dale Tunnicliffe and Annette Scheersoi -- Part I. History and Features of Natural History Dioramas. 2. History of dioramas / Claudia Kamcke and Rainer Hutterer ; 3. Habitat ...

Aliens chose Devils Tower in Wyoming as their landing site in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. President Teddy Roosevelt made it America's first national monument, and later a taxidermist for the ...

The mind has a difficult time wrapping itself around the notion that one day humankind will be extinct. Armageddon itself is easy to imagine, whether by nuclear fire, worldwide pandemics, zombie ...

The taxidermy and old-school dioramas of natural history museums often seem stuck in time. A tribe of neanderthals hunts on a plain, forever stalking unseen prey. Alien-looking sea creatures explore ...

Apple Arcade gave Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi and his studio Mistwalker the chance to go back to basics with Fantasian, a turn-based RPG with digital backgrounds derived from intricate ...

This weekend, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University will open an exhibition of dioramas, revealing how dioramas are made. In effect, putting natural history museums under glass. Lori ...

Dive into the world of advanced model making in this comprehensive diorama tutorial featuring a sci-fi lab with a zombie ...

Look closely at this three-dimensional scene, featuring a pair of exuberant dancers. "You've been enslaved for 250 years, and now you're free, and this is jubilation and joy," said professor Jontyle ...

If you like mysteries, thrillers or zombie flicks, you'll probably like Abigail Goldman's art. Goldman takes the fake grass, dirt and tiny plastic people used in model railroad layouts, and turns them ...

See what it was like for the artist behind bars. Ai Weiwei, S.A.C.R.E.D. (2013), a six-part work composed of (i) S upper, (ii) A ccusers, (iii) C leansing, (iv) R itual, (v) E ntropy, (vi) D oubt.