Design

A Video Installation Designed To Terrify Arachnophobes

A German art show channels 1950s horror flicks with gigantic, scurrying spiders.

Here's one building you wouldn't want to enter without a 40-foot-long rolled-up newspaper.

Inside a clinical white room in Saarbruecken, Germany, a pair of shadowy, multilegged creatures scurry back and forth. They scale the walls and poke at the corners almost as if with anger, searching for an escape from their urban prison. Pedestrians gawking from the street at the pair of monstrosities must wonder: How strong are those windows? (Bystanders who don't fear-gag in the presence of horse-sized arachnids might also think: Could I ride them?)