In New York's iconic Times Square, artist Nathan Sawaya has created an inventive lego exhibit. The artist uses the kids toy to create amazing sculptures in his exhibit, The Art of the Brick which opens today at Discovery Times Square. He has already showed the exhibit in Singapore, Taiwan and Australia.
USA Today reported that it is being called the largest lego display that has ever been assembled in one place. The show includes more than 100 sculptures that have been constructed from millions of lego bricks.
"Sawaya has more than 2.5 million colored bricks in his New York and Los Angeles art studios. His work is obsessively and painstakingly crafted and is both beautiful and playful. Sawaya's ability to transform LEGO bricks into something new, his devotion to scale and color perfection, the way he conceptualizes the action of the subject matter, enables him to elevate an ordinary toy to the status of fine art," says Sawaya's website.
The show runs through Jan. 5 and tickets are $19.50 adult; $14.50 ages 4-12.
In another Lego story, London Underground has created a series of Tube maps made entirely of Lego in celebration of the toy company's 150th anniversary.
"Each map is made up of more than 1,000 Lego bricks and took more than four days to build.
The first map shows how the Tube appeared in 1927. Another depicts it in 1933, when copies of Harry Beck's renowned diagram of the Underground was first distributed to the public. A version of Beck's design is still used today," reported CNN.
The tube is the oldest underground railway and was opened in 1863. In January the tube celebrated its 150th anniversary of the first underground journey.
"We hope the maps will inspire the young engineers of the future," said a London Underground spokesman to CNN.
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