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“La Cabande du Sucre”, built by Richard Greaves in Quebec. “I don’t like concrete. A tree moves and also I’m silent. With a nail or a saw. you’d know I was there. I am like a raccoon” – Richard Greaves Greaves makes inhabitable structures out of garbage that look pretty impressive if not confusing. Having [...]
When she died, her husband Diego Rivera ordered her clothes be locked up for 15 years. When Diego passed three years later, a philanthropist, art collector and old friend of the couple, Dolores Olmedo became the manager of their houses. She kept all of Kahlo’s belongings secretly guarded under lock and key for decades until [...]
In 1954, Dali made an appearance on a popular US game show, The Name’s the Same. I’ve never seen any video recordings of Dali so I found it quite fascinating to see how he was both charming and utterly incomprehensible at the same time. But at the 4:00 minute mark, one of the contestants boldly [...]
The Upside Down House by Irek Glowacki and Marek Rozanski This twisted playhouse on show in Terfens Austria is a permanent new installation to attract tourists to the area– and it seems to be working. Visitors can walk on the ceilings of this fully furnishes house feeling a bit like their walking on the [...]
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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Sawn in half with a chainsaw, wheeled down the streets of San Francisco, stuck on a barge at Marina
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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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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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