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Women Surrealists Rule 'In Wonderland'

Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Women, Louise Bourgeoisie, Women Surrealism, Freud, Dorothea Tanning, Louise Bourgeois, Women Artists, Los Angeles Art, Lacma, Lee Miller, Remedios Varo, Dali, Frida Kahlo, In Wonderland, Diego Rivera, Leonora Carrington, Arts News

Not since Alice lost her way down the rabbit hole have we seen a wonderland so strange and delightful. In the first ever survey of women surrealists i...

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Influential Abstract Painter Dies At 88

Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Klee, Dali, Barcelona Art, El Mundo, Antoni Tapies Rip, Abstract Art, Modernism, Antoni Tapies Dies, Catalan Art, Joan Miro, Antoni Tapies, El Pais, Arts News

Antoni Tapies passed away last night according to his family members. He was 88 years old and had been in bad health for some time. Tapies was hugely ...

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Historical Figures As Hipsters

Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: Marilyn Monroe, Dali, Dorothy, Cultura, Kahlo, Dali Lama, Jesus, Vampire Weekend, Daft Punk, Fabian Ciraolo, Justice, Arts News

Have you ever fantasized about living in another era? About hanging out in cafes with Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein? Full disclosure: we underst...

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PHOTOS: The 10 Best Paintings Of Jesus Ever

Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Dali, Leonardo, Mantegna, Serrano, Art History, Jesus, Christmas, Michelangelo, Religious Art, Best Jesus in Art, Velazquez, Pontormo, Giotto, Goya, Arts News

Christmas is upon us, and what better way to celebrate then by shuffling through a slideshow of Jesus in all of his many forms? Some are baby, some ar...

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Alice

C. M. Rubin | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: The Real Alice in Wonderland Book, Harry M. Rubin, Lewis Carroll, The Global Search for Education, Charles Dodgson, Eleanor Clayton, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Tim Burton, Alice in Wonderland, Alice's Adventures Underground, Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, C. M. Rubin, Dali, Tate Liverpool, Alice, Harry Potter, Alice Pleasance Liddell, Max Ernst, Tenniel, Alice in Wonderland's 150th Birthday, Books News
C. M. Rubin

In the year 2143, will we be able to say Harry Potter lives, Harry Potter is global, or even that Harry Potter's enduring legacy continues to inspire all age groups? There is one book we can say that about today.

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The Remarkable Realism Of Cave Paintings

AP | By ALICIA CHANG | Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: Da Vinci, Cave Art, Dna, Dali, Cave Painting, Ancient Art, Paleontology, Art Study, Science Art, Arts News

LOS ANGELES -- Cave painters during the Ice Age were more like da Vinci than Dali, sketching realistic depictions of horses they saw rather than dream...

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Artists' Famous Last Words

Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Final Word, Oscar Wilde, Marx, Raphael, Karl Marx, Da Vinci, Famous Last Words, Sam Cooke, Van Gogh, Picasso, Death, Dali, Mozart, Leonardo, Freddie Mercury, Artist Last Words, Arts News

While great art lives forever, great artists don't. And aside all of the panic, pain and stress death brings, there is also the pressure to come out w...

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Dali Apes Straightlaced Reporter

Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Dali, Artist Interview, Surrealism, Dali Interview 1958, Dali Wallace Interview, Salvador Dali Interview, Salvador Dali, Dali Interview, Artist Talks, Video, Arts News

From his gravity-defying moustache to his enchantingly impenetrable accent, Salvador Dali is anything but easily understood. His eccentric personality...

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QUIZ: Who Painted That Pup?

Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Pet Art, Art Quiz, Raphael, Degas, Da Vinci, Cat, Durer, Millais, Gauguin, Courbet, Magritte, Animals, Van Gogh, Puppy Art, Brueghel, Monet, Dali, Art Test, Art History, Puppy, Van Eyk, Bosch, Masterpieces and Pets, Bronzino, Manet, Pontormo, Arts News

Long before LOLCats graced the world with its presence, people looking to get a good laugh at a furry animal had to get their hands on one the old fas...

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WATCH: Taking Over Celebrities' Faces

Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Dali, Michael Jackson, Paris Hilton, Marilyn Monroe, Brad Pitt, Video, Face Substitution, Video Art, Warhol, Projections, Obama, Celebrity, Technology, Arthur Castro, 3d, Arts News

Yes, it is as freaky as it sounds. 'Minority Report' meets 'Face/Off' in this new technological experiment in which famous faces can be worn as easily...

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SLIDESHOW: Artists Gone Wild

Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Crazy Artists, Salvador Dali, Vincent Van Gogh, Michelangelo, Cannibalism, Gauguin, Paul Gauguin, Van Gogh, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Rossetti, Dali, Caravaggio, Mozart, Frida Kahlo, Tahiti, Artists Gone Wild, Diego Rivera, Wombat, Wolfgang Mozart, Rivera, Arts News

Artists are often eccentric; that's part of their appeal. But there's a fine line between eccentricity and hide-your-kids lunacy, and the artists in t...

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Apocalyptic Art Through The Ages

Posted 07.21.2011

Read More: Dali, Bouguereau, End Times, May 21, Judgment Day, Apocalypse, Sculpture, Bosch, Ghiberti, Durer, Painting, Rapture, Picasso, Goya, Apocalypse Art, Arts News

Even if the Rapture doesn't come May 21, maybe thinking about Judgment Day every century or so can be a good thing. The End of Times have been a popul...

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Disgraced Former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy's Art Nets $672,000 At Auction

AP | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Dali, Richard Scrushy, Alabama, Marc Chagall, Art Auctions, Lehman Brothers, Healthsouth, Bribery, Freeman, Philadelphia, Scrushy, Salvador Dali, Picasso, Painting, Arts News

PHILADELPHIA -- The art collection of disgraced health care executive Richard Scrushy brought in more than $672,000 at auction, with proceeds going to...

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Manly Facial Hair: 11 Must-See Mustaches (PHOTOS)

Tom Cutler | Posted 07.04.2011

Read More: Dali, Clark Gable, Handlebar Mustache, Hitler, Stalin, Slidepollajax, The Gentleman's Bedside Companion, Emilio Zapata, Mustaches, Tom Selleck, Handlebar Club, Books News
Tom Cutler

I've had my mustache for thirty-three years and I'm now used to street urchins flinging orange peel and contumely in my direction. But, as we say, if you can't take the abuse, don't grow the mustache.

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High Art: Drugs in Art History

Posted 06.20.2011

Read More: Spot Painting, Salvador Dali, 420, Absinthe, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Drugs and Art, Painting, Lsd, Bicycle Day, Viktor Olivia, Hirst, Dali, Graffiti, Basquiat, Damien Hirst, Slidepollajax, Arts News

On April 20, university quads and city backstreets alike fill up with smoke in celebration of marijuana. The unofficial holiday follows Bicycle Day, w...

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Goodwill Auctions Purported Dali Print

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Auction for Charity, Grand Junction, Colorado, Goodwill, Dali, Salvador Dali, Impact News

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — A Colorado Goodwill store is auctioning off a purported lithograph of a Salvador Dali work that it received from a myste...

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Lisa Yuskavage: The Journey of an Art Star by Patricia Zohn

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cezanne, 92nd St Y, De Chirico, Degas, Simone De Beauvoir, Second Sex, Dennis Hopper, Picasso, Philip Guston, Yale, Pornography, Dali, David Zwirner, Lisa Yuskavage, Robert Storr, Vuillard, Rorschach, Marianne Boesky, Disney, Arts News
Patricia Zohn

2010-06-25-outsidepull.jpg Yuskavage says -- using the lexicon of sex to describe her process -- "I can't paint as a bottom. I have to paint as a top."

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Government-Backed Chinese Gay Bar In Yunnan Province Stays Empty

AP | TINI TRAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yunnan Gay Bar, China Gay Pride, Dali, Dali Gay Bar, China Gay Bar, China Gay Rights, Yunnan Province, China Gays, China, World News

BEIJING — A new bar in southwestern China aimed at educating gay men about AIDS stayed conspicuously empty during its official opening as potent...

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