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Design Your Own Marie Antoinette–Style Wig with the V&A's Addictive New Game
More so than the mulleted glam rockers of the 1980s or the beehive-wearing divas of the '60s, 18th-century Europeans were the queens of Big Hair.
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Facebook Censors Photo of Copenhagen's Beloved Little Mermaid Statue
For more than a century, Edvard Eriksen's bronze statue of "The Little Mermaid" has perched quietly on a waterside rock in Copenhagen, offending virtually no one.
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Old Navy Says Don't Aspire to Be an Artist [UPDATED]
Throw out your art supplies and dive into into engineering and policymaking instead because being an artist isn't worth it — or at least that's what Old Navy suggests with a line of T-shirts.
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A Century-Old Spanish Church Transforms into an Art-Filled Skate Park
In 1912, when Asturian architect Manuel del Busto designed Church of Santa Barbera, in the Spanish town of Llanera, the skateboard hadn't yet been invented.
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150,000 People Will Vote to Preserve or Pulverize a Picasso
Would you rather help donate an original Picasso to a museum, or keep a 1.5-square-milimeter scrap of it for yourself?
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A Digital Re-creation of a Lost 18th-Century Shakespeare Museum
One of the first museums created for the enjoyment of the middle class was the Shakespeare Gallery, opened in 1789 by John Boydell.
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Arabic Calligraphy Assignment Prompts Countywide School Shutdown in Virginia
Officials in a Virginia county have closed all local schools following a backlash over one teacher's homework assignment on Islamic calligraphy.
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Feds Arrest Martin Shkreli, Buyer of $2 Million Wu-Tang Clan Album
Martin Shkreli didn’t have long to enjoy his new $2 million Wu-Tang Clan album — if he ever listened to it at all.
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No Money for Portrait Artists in Congress's New Spending Package
Congress will vote on a new tax and spending bill Friday, and in case you wondered, not a dime of the $1.14 trillion dollar package will go to oil portraits.
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MoMA, Guggenheim, and New Museum Join IDNYC Program, Extending Perks for New Yorkers
New York City is extending its free government-issued ID card program through 2016, which will continue to provide residents with a number of city-wide benefits, including access to libraries, entertainment discounts, and year-long free memberships to dozens of its cultural institutions.
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A Portrait-Painting Robot with Its Own Artistic Style
In the coming robot world takeover, the art world won’t be spared.
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Cash Rules Everything Around Medicine: Big Pharma Exec Buys Only Copy of New Wu-Tang Clan Album
Today a Bloomberg Business article revealed the buyer of the only copy of the new Wu-Tang Clan album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin..., to be pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli.