Zhang Chongsheng, a master of straw art, uses common wheat straws to create works of art in Jinan, East China's Shandong province. [Photo/IC] Wheat is a staple food in North China, and wheat straw is ...

More than 30 million people have watched a video of an adorable sea turtle with a plastic straw stuck up its nose. Marine biologists pull the straw out with a pair of pliers. It’s excruciating to ...

The traditional straw painting Cesar Carbajal practiced as a child in Mexico may have helped save his life as a young adult. You might never know the 27-year-old Saluda man, with a faux-hawk hairstyle ...

Approaching the entrance of the Rice University Art Gallery, one gets the impression of a steep cloud bank, or a heap of snow along the highway just after a plow has sheared the edge. Its surface is ...

Straw art is all the rage in Japan, and it’s easy to see why. Immensely talented Japanese artists have taken to transforming ordinary drinking straws into mind-blowing works of art, incorporating ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan's Rice Straw Art Festival in Hualien is underway, with the theme “lost animals, birdsong, and rice wings." More than 20 giant-sized birds have been made from straw, along ...

Interior designer MaCenna Lee transforms plastic straws into sustainable and chic wall art. 4 dead, 14 injured in California ...

A lot of unusual art trends have been popping up in Japan lately. From lattes to nails, dextrous Japanese artists are continuing to impress us with creative touches that take things to a whole new ...

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The straw sculptures are part of the Wara Art Festival in Niigata, Japan. Large, three-dimensional sculptures of dinosaurs and other animals were exhibited at the Wara Art Festival in Niigata, Japan, ...

If you are a farmer in Japan, there’s a good chance you’re a rice farmer, so after harvesting all your crop, you end up with a lot of straw. Most farmers will stack the straw together and either dry ...