Gaia on the Edge
 11,000 fabric birds, celadon pools, and a dream lab.
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Best of the Week  ✶  May 26, 2026
a group of dozens of handmade fabric birds with paper tags identifying them, modeled after real birds
people work around a table making birds from fabric and glue

Around North America, Community Members Are Stitching Nearly 11,000 Birds

In 2024, Holly Greenberg launched the community art project Bird Collisions in the Anthropocene to raise awareness about window collisions. Using data from Chicago's Field Museum, Greenberg decided to ask for the community's help in creating 10,863 fabric specimens.

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a wooden sculpture of Gaia amid a garden designed by Sarah Eberle at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show

Gaia Sleeps Amid Sarah Eberle’s Award-Winning Garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show

You’ll find Gaia in Sarah Eberle's garden titled “On the Edge” at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show, which has taken the top prize of Garden of the Year.

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a still from an ad featuring Zendaya showing her wearing a blue and white outfit and looking into a mirror where she has three reflections

Zendaya Taps into the Creative Process in a Quirky Ad Directed by Spike Jonze

In a distraction-free “dream lab,” Zendaya has carte blanche to create a new wardrobe in a short, stop-motion film written and directed by Spike Jonze.

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a gif from the teaser trailer of 'Wildwood' featuring a door opening, with animal characters inside and a young woman walking in

Glimpse the Fantastical Animated World of ‘Wildwood’

LAIKA Studios emphasizes both human-made elements and cutting-edge technology in the feature-length film, coming this October.

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a mixed-media watercolor painting of a shimmering carousel with colorful horses, with buildings and trees in the background
two large vessels on the floor of mosaiced celadon fragments that cloak the forms and spill out into a pool

From Two Tons of Celadon, Jean Shin Sculpts a Metaphor for the Korean Diaspora

Shards of broken cups and saucers, pots, and other voluptuous forms blanket the gallery of the Green-House at Green-Wood for a new installation by Jean Shin.

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a square painting of four fish, each popping out of the other's mouth at a slightly different size, like a matryoshka doll

Four Dozen Artists Celebrate Marine Wildlife and Lore in ‘Common Waters’

From the ethereal weirdness of jellyfish to the delicate branches of corals, the works in Common Waters not only touch on the incredible biodiversity below the surface but also remind us of the ocean’s power and how human actions can have dire consequences.

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↪ Edited today by Grace Ebert.