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Photographer Captures Intimate Moments Of Cosplayers In Their Homes
Klaus Pichler, a 36-year-old Austrian photographer, is fascinated by the creation of alter egos through costumes, including the imitation of fictional characters called cosplay."In my opinion,...
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The Eccentric Owner Of A Recently Discovered Nazi-Era Art Collection Hasn't...
Earlier this month, German officials revealed they'd discovered a trove of more than 1,400 masterpieces, many believed looted by the Nazis.The story is rife with controversy, not least because...
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What Fine Art Would Look Like If It Were Sponsored By Nike
Milan fashion director Davide Bedoni was not seeing many exciting advertisements in his field, so he turned to a new source of inspiration: fine art.Bedoni started his "SwooshArt" project in January,...
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New York Graffiti Mecca 5 Pointz Is Now Just A Blank White Wall
5 Pointz, the 200,000-square-foot Queens warehouse at the center of the New York City street art world, was painted over last night.5 Pointz has served as an exhibition space for top New York graffiti...
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Meet The People Who Live In Wal-Mart Parking Lots [PHOTOS]
There are thousands of Wal-Marts across the U.S. that allow overnight parking for cars RVs. In some cases this had led to the development of whole communities.Brooklyn writer and photographer Nolan...
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The Last Beautiful Picture Of JFK And Jackie
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's death, this commentary was excerpted from "Shooting Kennedy: JFK And The Culture Of Images" by art historian David M. Lubin of Wake...
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This Mysterious Woman Is Always Photographed With A ‘Doubleface'
Polish artist Sebastian Bieniek claims he doesn't know the name of the woman he has been photographing for the last four months. He simply calls her DoubleFaced as she is always pictured with a second...
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How A Polar Bear Hair Could Solve The Mystery Of Jackson Pollock's Final...
A small silver-washed canvas with a black oval surrounded by red slags of paint does not at all remind the Pollock-Krasner Foundation of the signature style of famed abstract expressionist Jackson...
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Why Anyone In Their Right Mind Would Pay $142 Million For A Piece Of Art, In...
Earlier this month, someone paid a record $142 million at auction for a triptych portrait by Francis Bacon of fellow artist Lucian Freud. We offered up an explanation of how that painting in particular...
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These Mesmerizing Photos Of Snowflakes Were Taken With A Regular...
You don't need the most expensive photography equipment to take awesome photos.Photographer Alexey Kljatov took an old lens from a Russian Zenit camera, flipped it around backwards, and attached it to...
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The idea that Apple's iOS devices can't really be used for serious content creation just got a major debunking.Yesterday, Daring Fireball's John Gruber linked to this amazing video of artist Kyle...
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Study Suggests Artists Don't Reach Peak Creativity Until Age 42
Have you reached your peak creativity level?If you're under the age of 42, chances are good your best creative years are still ahead of you.That's according to a new study out of the Creativity...
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Three Norman Rockwell Paintings Sell For Nearly $60 Million
Three oil paintings by Norman Rockwell, the celebrated 20th century master illustrator of everyday life in America, sold Wednesday for almost $60 million, setting a new record for the artist.The best...
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It's Impossible To Compete With This Woman's Snapchat Art
As a kid, Dasha Battelle was so fascinated by comics, she used to copy them out of the newspaper and The New Yorker.So when the 24-year-0ld New Yorker began her job as a paralegal, she realized she...
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A Dad Started Coloring In His Kids' Drawings — And Produced Some Amazing Art
Reddit has been buzzing about a dad who takes his young kids' drawings on business trips and colors them in to pass the time on the plane.It's both an adorable collaboration between father, son and...
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20 Photorealistic Pictures Of Computer-Generated People
It shouldn't be terribly surprising that artists can do amazing stuff with computers nowadays.Monsters destroy cities in the movies and people fly and turn invisible, for example.And a new school of 3D...
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The 40 Most Outrageous Works We Saw At Art Basel Miami Beach
This year's Art Basel Miami Beach featured 258 leading international galleries from across 31 countries and attracted an attendance of 75,000 people over the five show days — a 7% increase over last...
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Why Michelangelo Was In A Class Of His Own
Michelangelo: His Epic Life. By Martin Gayford. Fig Tree; 662 pages.LORENZO DE’ MEDICI, ruler of the Florentine Republic, was so taken by a statue carved by an adolescent that he proposed to make the...
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The British Library Just Released 1 Million Fascinating Old Photos To The Public
Five years ago, the British Library embarked on a mission with Microsoft to digitize hundreds of thousands of photos taken from centuries-old books.Maps, illustrations, photographs, diagrams, and more;...
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This Painting By George Zimmerman Is Fetching $100,000 On EBay
George Zimmerman is hawking a justice-themed painting on eBay, and he could end up making nearly $100,000 on it.The current bid on the painting is $99,966, and there are still four days of bidding...
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