World's Strangest Sculptures
Why keep the bizarre in just two dimensions? Here are some of the strangest sculptures from around the globe.
'Lost' fans may think this sculpture is of the Black Smoke Monster, but this dramatic sculpture by artist Dick Evans is called 'The Black Grape.'
Why keep the bizarre in just two dimensions? Here are some of the strangest sculptures from around the globe.
'Lost' fans may think this sculpture is of the Black Smoke Monster, but this dramatic sculpture by artist Dick Evans is called 'The Black Grape.'
Well that looks painful! ‘I Will Survive' is the first survey exhibition of Portuguese artist Joanna Vasconcelos.
Talk about pet hoarding ... Vasconcelos is considered one of the pre-eminent Portuguese artists of her generation, Before the 'I Will Survive' exhibit (pictured above), Vasconcelos came to public attention for her display at the 2005 Venice Biennale.
Marc Quinn's sculpture 'The Ecstatic Autogenesis of Pamela' is the artist's interpretation of well-endowed actress Pamela Anderson. The sculpture is on display at Quinn's new exhibition 'Allanah, Buck, Catman, Chelsea, Michael, Pamela And Thomas' at the White Cube Gallery in London.
Look at the legs on that one! Joan Miro's sculpture 'Jeune fille s'evadant' in the Museum Frieder Burda captures the interest of a photographer in Baden-Baden, southern Germany.
Quinn's depiction of the late Michael Jackson - 'Man in the Mirror' - is currently on display at the same exhibit. But this isn't the artist's only tribute to the late music legend ...
He also created the eerie accompaniment to 'Man in the Mirror' - 'Man in the Mirror (Monochrome Reversal).'
Spanish film director Isabel Coixet poses by her creation 'Miguelin', a huge animated baby doll displayed inside the Spanish pavilion, at the site of the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai.
After the 2008 Beijing Olympics, China is planning to stage the largest World's Fair yet as the latest demonstration of its growing global clout. The six-month exhibition began May 1.
This life-size tiger is one of the 25 works of Cai Quo-qiang, a China-born artist known for his pyrotechnic displays and gunpowder drawings. This particular statue is currently on display at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum.
Forget your normal bath time and hop into this tub shaped like a woman's shoe! Designed by label Maronese, this sculpture was on display at the international leading furniture fair IMM in Colgogne, Germany in January 2010.
The fair showcases the latest spectrum of products and services of the international furniture and interior design industry each year. 
An exhibition piece entitled 'Still Life' could be seen ahead of the opening of the new Ron Mueck exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia. The exhibition featured twelve of Mueck's hyper-realistic sculptures from the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art, along with four new works.
A man builds a sand sculpture in the image of Jesus during Holy Week in Arenal de Cochiraya of Oruro, Bolivia.
This sculpture made entirely of colored pencils by Italian artist Paola Pezzi is on display at the MiArt, an international modern and contemporary art fair, in Milan, Italy.
This larger-than-life sculpture by German artist Jochem Hendricks was on display at the 'Art Cologne' art fair in Cologne, Germany. The 44th 'Art Cologne' festival showcased 180 modern, post-war and contemporary galleries
Ron Mueck's 'Woman With Sticks' installation is pictured above at Belsay Hall in Belsay United Kingdom. The work forms part of English Heritage's 'Extraordinary Measures' exhibition which explores the concept of scale with surreal and fantastical installations.
A woman looks at British artist Damien Hirst's 'Cancer of Fat Cells' next to U.S. artist Michael Joo's 'Doppelganger (Pink Rocinante)' during a press preview of their show 'Have You Ever Really Looked at the Sun?' at Berlin's Haunch of Venison gallery April 30. The exhibition will run until August 14, 2010.
Ever seen a sculpture made from nearly 1,000 pounds of butter? Well now you have!
This representation of a dairy farmer pouring a glass of milk at the breakfast table with his family pays tribute to dairy farm families in a very literal way. Created by sculpture Jim Victor of Conshokocken, Pa., the sculpture was crafted from butter donated by Land O' Lakes in Carlisle, Pa. and was previously on display at the Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg, Pa.
A sculpture by Chinese artist Chen Wenling titled 'What You See Might Not Be Real' is on display at a gallery in Beijing, China. The artwork is a critique of the global financial crisis with the bull representing the golden bull of Wall Street, and the man pinned to the wall representing the jailed financier Bernie Madoff.
A 'ninot' sculpture burns during the last day of the "Fallas" festival in Valencia, Spain. Papier-mache sculptures are built throughout the year, displayed in the city squares for five days and then burned during the night on St. Joseph’s holiday.
Workers reinstall 'The Awakening,' a 15-foot-high sculpture of a giant struggling to emerge from the earth. Its new home is on the waterfront at National Harbor, Maryland
Workers reinstall 'The Awakening,' a 15-foot-high sculpture of a giant struggling to emerge from the earth. Its new home is on the waterfront at National Harbor, Maryland
A new sculpture by Anish Kapoor 'Tall Tree and the Eye' is displayed in the courtyard of the Royal Academy in England.
Workers reinstall 'The Awakening,' a 15-foot-high sculpture of a giant struggling to emerge from the earth. Its new home is on the waterfront at National Harbor, Maryland.
Oranges, grapefruits, lemons and limes make for an interesting sculpture in the main fountain area of Rockefeller Center
A micro sculpture by Willard Wigan shows President Obama and his family in the eye of a needle.
A worker gives a final touch on Malaysia’s biggest chocolate sculpture at Putrajaya, Malaysia's new government complex, in conjunction with the Food & Fruit Fiesta in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
A giant sculpture by Austrian artist Andre Heller is seen at the World Wide Fund for Nature pavilion at the Expo ground in Hanover, Germany
The Ice Hotel in Quebec, Canada, is rebuilt every year and offers its guests a cool atmosphere.
A man looks at a Chinese soup sculpture displayed at a shopping mall in Hong Kong. The scrumptious-looking sculpture is made of foam, rattan and fabric
Local artist Jason Peters created a 10-foot-high sculpture in Times Square using more than 80 original lawn chairs from the pedestrian plaza
Jason Bailer Losh’s sculpture 'When Horses Ride, Beggars Die' in Astoria, Queens features a once-working Pontiac Trans Am
James Johnson pulls a giant polished aluminum shark fin called "Freedom of Movement" along 72nd street in Manhattan, NY.
Italian artist Giancarlo Neri's 'The Writer' is located in London's Hampstead Heath. The chair is 33 feet high, and the table is 29 feet high. The sculpture is made of wood and steel 
A towering sculpture of eight cars impaled by a steel pipe, officially named 'Spindle,' was made famous in the movie 'Wayne's World.'
A sculpture called 'Walking to the Sky' by Jonathan Borofsky is displayed at Rockefeller Center.
Tokyo pedestrians look up at this large spider made of bronze called 'Maman,' produced by French female artist Louise Bourgeois.
Tone Holmen’s sculpture of a polar bear, displayed at the London Zoo, is made entirely from recycled plastic bags.
This Lego tower in Legoland, Calif., is made of more than 500,000 Lego bricks and is over 90 feet tall, breaking the previous world record of 89 feet held by Legoland in Denmark
A horse sculpture called 'Atlantis,' made from fallen Dartmoor oak by artist Heather Jansch, is displayed at the Recycled Sculpture Show at London Zoo.
Artist Chris Burden unveils his 65-foot toy parts sculpture at Rockefeller Center.
The Crazy Horse mountain memorial is seen in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The Crazy Horse Memorial, the world's largest mountain carving, honors American Indian
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