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Sylvester Stallone Knocked Out by Video Art

The High Museum of Art in Atlanta was recently visited by onscreen boxer, bottled water enthusiast, and aspiring abstract painter Sylvester Stallone, who documented his visit in a shaky video selfie he shared on Instagram today.

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Sad Keanu Wrote Sad Poetry for a Sad Art Book

Keanu is Sad, a wise meme once said. Now, Sad Keanu is part of an art book, called Shadows, that incorporates the sad thoughts (penned by the Hollywood actor himself) he pondered while eating that sad sandwich on that sad bench.

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Botticelli’s Hallucinatory ‘Divine Comedy’ Drawings Return to England After 130 Years

Lucifer gobbles up the souls of three traitors in an icy inferno, sinners are cooked in baths of tar, and a gauzy-robed Beatrice floats in the heavens.

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8,000 Afropop Tracks from Guinea's First Decades of Independence Digitized

When French colonial forces pulled out of Guinea following its declaration of independence in 1958, they notoriously even took the lightbulbs.

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Bringing van Gogh’s Life to the Big Screen at 12 Oil Paintings per Second

Described as "the world's first feature-length painted animation," a forthcoming film will tell the life story of Vincent van Gogh through over 120 of his own oil paintings.

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Anish Kapoor Gets Exclusive Rights to the World's Darkest Material [UPDATED]

Anish Kapoor now owns the exclusive rights to the world's darkest material — a claim that, naturally, is pissing off other artists.

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Metropolitan Museum’s Admission Now “Suggested” Rather Than “Recommended”

Since 1893, admission to New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has been as little as a penny.

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Parkas that Read Your Emotions and Project Them as GIFs

The animated GIF is the internet’s handiest shorthand for expressing complex emotions.

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Chinese Government Has Had It with “Oversized, Weird” Architecture

Architects in China apparently need to tone down the quirkiness of their designs and quit erecting buildings that pass as giant pants, penises, and ancient coins.

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NASA Releases Retro Posters for the Future of Space Exploration

Back in the 1930s and '40s, during the height of the Great Depression, artists designed posters for the Works Projects Administration (WPA) to encourage travel to national parks and other tourist sites in the United States.

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Brussels Museums Now Showing Buckets and a Pigeon, Thanks to Water Damage

The infrastructure of some of Brussels's federally funded art museums is in such poor shape that government officials will congregate next week at a "crisis meeting" to discuss it.

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Italy and UNESCO Establish Task Force to Protect Cultural Heritage in Conflict Zones

Italy has teamed up with the United Nations to create a task force whose goal is to protect ancient artworks, artifacts, and archaeological sites in conflict zones from extremists.