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Piccasso is probably most famous for his affairs, his extravagant bohemian lifestyle, oh and his art too, but he’s probably less remembered as the guy who was suspected of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911. On August 22nd of 1911, Parisian artist Louis Béroud, famous for painting and selling his copies of [...]
The Grande Galerie in the Louvre Museum, abandoned. In 1938, the threat of war prompted plans for a large-scale evacuation of the public collections in the Louvre Museum. The storage sites chosen for works of art were châteaux, tranquil locations in the heart of the French countryside, far from strategic targets. In 1939 and on [...]
On the eve of World War II, curators at the Louvre swathed the museum’s most priceless painting in layers of waterproof paper, boxed it up and sent it to the French countryside for safekeeping. The painting was moved another five times during the war before she was safely returned to the Louvre after the Liberation. [...]
In a dark and forgotten storage room of Clifton’s cafeteria in downtown Los Angeles, a neon
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Somewhere out there is an undiscovered doodling prodigy! A Reddit user recently walked into their
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Camping on Mars? Seaside fun with views of Saturn? French artist Djuno Tomsni imagines the perfect
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Every once in a while, a fashion brand does something that stays with you and swims around in your
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I‘m not an art buff. I just like what I like and save it as my desktop background image or,
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If you have typography skills, obviously the next logical step is to just start illustrating
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Waiter! There’s a Britney Spears in my coffee! (I knew that was going to be terrible but I
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Mixing Justin Bieber’s perfume and the scent of Jersey Shore’s Snookie with an Eau de
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Just hours after Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30th, 1945, former fashion model and Vogue
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So painstakingly detailed, you could easily mistake these photographs for real life-sized rooms
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What a rare treat it would be to receive something like this today. It certainly makes emailing
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Okay so this is probably going to be more fun for my New Yaawker readers, who know the
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Looking at these installations, I imagine they are like clues indicating a secret trail somewhere
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Forget the Eiffel Tower, Versailles and the Chartres Cathedral, I’ve got some alternative
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Meet ‘Super Mary’, a pop culture version of her former self, part of a series by French
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