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These Paintings Capture The Glory Days Of The 2011 Protests
Artist Molly Crabapple describes 2011 as the year "everyone sat down in the main squares of their cities and said the old machine is broken."Occupy Wall Street began outside her window, and she began...
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This New Portrait Website Reveals What Total Strangers Think Of You
While Facebook may connect people across the globe its novelty is starting to wear off. Ivan Cash, a freelance interactive artist and Jeff Greenspan, BuzzFeed's chief creative officer, have dreamed up...
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Awesome Sketches From The Storyboard That Brought 'Oblivion' To Life
Jack Harper (Tom Cruise) heads down to planet Earth — or what’s left of it anyway — to find a downed surveillance drone that has landed in the charred remnants of the New York Public Library’s Rose...
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Hundreds Of Women Tried Out For The Rockettes Today [PHOTOS]
Radio City's annual Christmas Spectacular is months away, but auditions for the Rockettes — those leggy dancers who are known for their uniform high-kick line — are in full swing.Hundreds of aspiring...
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Inside The Whitney Museum's Star-Studded Annual Art Party [Photos]
Olivia Wilde, Lake Bell, Lo Bosworth and countless fashionistas attended the Whitney Museum's annual Art Party Wednesday night at Moynihan Station in New York City. Sponsored by Max Mara, Belvedere and...
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Brooklyn Realtor Is Giving A 15% Raise To Workers Who Get A Tattoo Of Their Logo
A Brooklyn real estate company has offered employees one of the nuttiest pay incentives we've ever heard of –– get a tattoo of the company logo and get a 15% raise.Anthony Lolli, founder of Rapid...
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Painting With A Private Jet Engine Makes Very Cool Abstract Art
To celebrate the 50th birthday of planemaker Learjet, private jet service Flexjet commissioned some very unusual abstract art.Working from the tarmac of the airport in West Palm Beach, artist Princess...
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What The Figures In Abstract Paintings Would Look Like In Real Life
Hungarian photographer Flóra Borsi is no stranger to manipulating photographs for her art, and now she's taking on master painters in her latest project The Real Life Models.The 19-year-old emerging...
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Madonna Sells French Painting For $7 Million At Auction
Madonna made a $3.8 million profit after she sold an art work titled “Three Women at the Red Table” by French artist Fernand Léger during a Sotheby's auction in New York on Tuesday.The singer had...
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Heartbreaking Images Of The Giant Rubber Duck That Mysteriously Deflated In...
Since May 2, Hong Kong residents have had a special guest.A giant, 54-feet high inflatable duck that took pride of place in the city's Victoria Harbor.The duck — named "Rubber Duck"— is a project from...
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Top Hedge Fund Manager Predicts A Collapse In The Art Market
Michael Novogratz, the head of Fortress Investment Group, appeared on CNBC yesterday.Among other things, he talked about what he considered to be an ongoing bubble in art."Art is 100 percent a bubble—I...
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A Controversial Banksy Mural Is About To Hit The Auction Block
Art created by renowned British graffiti artist Banksy that was withdrawn from a controversial US auction is being put up for sale again in London, auctioneers said on Saturday.The mural called Slave...
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Half A Billion Dollars Worth Of Art Sold Last Night At The Biggest Auction In...
A blockbuster auction of Contemporary art in New York, including a record $58.4 million for a Jackson Pollock drip painting, fetched nearly half a billion dollars -- the biggest haul ever at an art...
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New Yorkers Are Livid Over Photos Taken Through Their Apartment Windows
Rear Window? NYC residents livid over artist's photos taken through apartment windowsNEW YORK (AP) — In one photo, a woman is on all fours, presumably picking something up, her posterior pressed...
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Ben Bernanke Gives A Shout-Out To English Majors
For all the talk of how it's a waste to study American Literature or other majors with limited job prospects, even the Chairman of the Federal Reserve acknowledges a value to cultural pursuits.Ben...
View ArticleTimelapse Video Shows Picasso Finishing Entire Paintings In Seconds
Pablo Picasso created some of the most iconic art in the world. Now we can get a glimpse of how the artist worked, thanks to an old video unearthed by Open Culture.The two-minute timelapse video is...
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Locals Are Irate Over Plans To Turn A New York City Art Mecca Into Luxury...
LONG ISLAND CITY — A plan to replace Queens graffiti mecca 5Pointz with a pair of high-rise luxury apartment towers was blasted by critics at a contentious public hearing Wednesday night, as opponents...
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21 Cool Minimalist Posters Of Your Favorite Movies
This is really cool.Michael Krasnopolski, an art director and graphic designer from Poland, has allowed us to republish the "minimalist" movie posters he's created for basically every epic...
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China's Most Controversial Artist Documents 81-Day Imprisonment With Graphic...
For 81 days in 2011, Ai Weiwei, a Chinese artist known for his critiques of the modern Chinese state, was detained by security forces. His crime was allegedly "tax evasion," and during his...
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Art-World Mysteriously Emerges From Smoking Rubble Of Iraq
"You have no idea how difficult the biscuits were," said Tamara Chalabi, one of the commissioners of the Iraq pavilion at the Venice Biennale, as she described her idea of providing traditional cakes...
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