Surrealists, Responsive Architecture & Mormons: Highlights This Week

It's never a dull moment on HuffPost Arts. This week we've featured everything from tree hotels high in the sky to art healing ministries which promise to cure everything from acne to hay hever. We restarted our popular Guess the Artist game, Parisian Surrealism was re-envisioned in Bettina Rheims' new book and 'Book of Mormon' continued to dominate at award shows. These were our highlights, what were yours?

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ROSE C'EST PARIS': Photographer Bettina Rheims Channels The Surrealists (PHOTOS, VIDEO) By Michael Kurcfeld Why It's A Highlight: This coverage of Bettina Rheims' and Serge Bramley's new book is an enlightening look at the "french Annie Leibowitz" and her Surrealist influences. View the stunning images included in the article as well as a fascinating interview with the artist in the video above.

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ROSE C'EST PARIS': Photographer Bettina Rheims Channels The Surrealists (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
By Michael Kurcfeld

Why It's A Highlight: This coverage of Bettina Rheims' and Serge Bramley's new book is an enlightening look at the "french Annie Leibowitz" and her Surrealist influences. View the stunning images included in the article as well as a fascinating interview with the artist in the video above.

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[julia06]

11:30 PM on 06/21/2011

The sculpture pictured is clearly a copy of Michelangelo's Moses.
How can one tell the difference?

[Gina Betcher]

03:15 PM on 05/29/2011

Edmonia's Moses made me cry and gasp. She had admired Michael Angelo, his work, so much that I imagined and admired her hands sculpting her Moses. She was phenomenal and I adore her drive to leave America when African Americans were thoroughly oppressed, and to believe in art to live in Italy where she indeed thrived.

[MSchlagel]

01:39 AM on 05/30/2011

I've been working on some research on Edmonia Lewis with my art history students. You might like this Smithsonian article on The Death of Cleopatra.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/object_sep96.html.

[Gina Betcher]

10:27 PM on 05/30/2011

oops, the url didn't work but I thank you. I am happy to search for the article you intended for me to see. I am grateful you are conducting research on Edmonia Lewis and including your students in the research. Would be wonderful if you were funded. Undergraduate research? Graduate research? There is support.

[ZenCrusader]

10:42 AM on 05/28/2011

Rose c'est Paris is seriously fabulous.