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Kara Walker In New York: Sour Sweet
Sugar is a cheap, seductive pleasure. But its sweetness belies a bitter history. For centuries it was a commodity harvested by slaves and refined into something white. Lately sugar has also become the...
View ArticleControversial Nearly Naked 'Sleepwalker' Statue At Wellesley College Vandalized
Wellesley College's controversial "Sleepwalker" statue was reportedly vandalized earlier this week, as the lifelike depiction of a nearly naked man was covered head to toe in yellow spray paint,...
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This Photographer Asked Strangers To Touch Each Other, And The Pictures Are...
For the last seven years, photographer Richard Renaldi has gone to various parts of America to take portraits of strangers that make them look like friends, family members, or even lovers.The point of...
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Archeologists Have Found A Trove Of Hidden Paintings At The Ancient Temple Of...
Each year, millions of visitors flock to Angkor Wat, an ancient temple in modern-day Cambodia. There, they marvel at the 900-year-old towers, a giant moat and the shallow relief sculptures of Hindu...
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Artist Covers Room In Lickable Chocolate Wallpaper
We live in a world where Willy Wonka is alive and well. Well, maybe not, but Scottish artist Anya Gallaccio has created a chocolate-covered, lickable room.Gallaccio (see more of her work here) is known...
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Real Estate Mogul At War With Neighbors Over His Graphic 30-Foot 'Virgin...
Real estate mogul and art collector Aby Rosen has sparked a feud with his wealthy Old Westbury, N.Y., neighbors after debuting this graphic Damien Hirst statue on his front lawn.The statue is titled...
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Hidden Beached Whale Revealed In Painting
When art conservators in the United Kingdom were cleaning a 17th-century Dutch seascape, they found a surprise: an image of a beached whale that had been hidden for at least 150 years.Until recently,...
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This Scientist Grows Famous Portraits Out Of Bacteria
What do you get when you cross an experimental scientist with Einstein, bacteria, and radiation? No, this isn't one of your dad's "No soap, radio" non-sequiturs— it's the incredibly successful artwork...
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One Woman Took Drawings From 600 Little Kids And Turned Them Into Stuffed...
In 2007, Wendy Tsao's then-4-year-old son kept drawing his "self-portrait," a stick man with big round eyes and ten long fingers. So Tsao thought it would be cool to create a "softie" (a stuffed...
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8 Tech Triumphs At The World Cup
If there’s one thing that can unite the human race on the global level, it’s the chance to rub your athletic superiority in another nation’s face. The 2014 FIFA World Cup is upon us, and beyond the...
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See If You Can Identify The Famous Art Masterpieces Behind These 8-Bit...
Artist Adam Lister has taken iconic pieces of art history and remixed them into 8-bit watercolors.The result is a stunning collection that brings to mind the art style and nostalgia of old 8-bit video...
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Artist Conceives Algorithm To Divvy Up Our Possessions When We Die
This might settle a few family disputes.Artist Sures Kumar created a project imagining an algorithm that determined where your possessions go after you pass away, according to Fast Co. Design.The...
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A 74-Year-Old Man Created These Beautiful Works Of Art Using Excel Spreadsheets
There are dozens of computer programs out there for editing images and creating art, but you probably wouldn't guess that Microsoft Excel is one of them.We don't blame you — Excel is typically...
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Meanwhile, The Russian Art Market Is On Fire
Putting money where the mouth is, the value of Russian artworks has reached a record high this month at auctions of Christie’s, Sotheby’s and MacDougall’s.Bad mouthing by the US State Department daily...
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A Box Worth $1,000 Sold For $138,000 After Two Asian Bidders Went To War
Things got intense at the Bonhams auctionhouse in Sydney earlier today.A Chinese blue-and-white porcelain "dragon" box with an estimated value of around $1,000-$2,000 sold for a whopping...
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This Opera Coach Will Take Your Presentations To The Next Level
The next time you're falling asleep during a presentation, take notice of the disembodied head bobbing around on stage. "A lot of times people, especially smart people, will present from the neck up,"...
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Study Shows People Will Pay More For Food If You Make It Look Like Art
Not only does food taste better when presented like art, people are also willing to pay more for it, a new study published in the journal Flavour suggests. We originally saw the paper on WonkBlog's...
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Here's What You'll See At The New Jeff Koons Exhibit That Everyone Is Talking...
This weekend the Whitney Museum in New York City debuted the "most comprehensive retrospective ever" of contemporary artist Jeff Koons."Jeff Koons: A Retrospective" opened June 27th and is the largest...
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This Artist Sold Her Messy Bed For $4.4 Million
Tracey Emin's controversial My Bed modern artwork has sold at auction for £2.2 million.The 1998 work, which features an unmade bed and a littered floor including empty vodka bottles, cigarette butts...
View ArticleA Chinese Artist Has Done Something Incredible With Paper
<div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div> Produced by Alana Kakoyiannis. Additional camera by Justin Gmoser.NOW WATCH: We Followed A Cosplayer Into The World...
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