Largest creative work

Literature

• The largest known general encyclopedia is the Yongle Encyclopedia commissioned by the Yongle Emperor of China's Ming dynasty in 1403. It comprised 22,937 manuscript scrolls in 11,095 volumes, occupying.
• The longest poem in any language is the Mahabharata, with more than 100,000 couplets.
• The longest epic cycle is the Tibetan Epic of King Gesar, which contains over 20 million words in more than one million verses.

  Performing arts

Film

• Logistics, directed by Erika Magnusson and Daniel Andersson, is officially the world's longest film. Running 51,420 minutes in length, the film follows the production cycle of a pedometer in reverse chronological order.

  Music

• The longest musical performance began on 1 January 2000 and is set to last for 1000 years before repeating. Composed by Jem Finer, Longplayer is played in a 19th-century lighthouse near Canary Wharf, London, and other public listening posts.

  Television

• The longest running U.S. television series is Meet the Press, a news program which started on 6 November 1947 and continues today.

  Theatre

Visual arts

Painting

• The largest painting by a single-artist according to the international guinness book of world records was completed by Duka Siroglavic. It measured and was created by Ðuka Siroglavic of Croatia in Bol, between 15 February and 15 July 2007. Previous record holders included David Aberg's "Mother Earth," and an Eric Waugh's, "Hero".

  Sculpture

• The largest glass sculpture is Fiori di Como by Dale Chihuly, found on the ceiling of the lobby for Las Vegas's Bellagio hotel. It measures.

  Textiles