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Happy Little eClouds: First Episode of ‘Joy of Painting’ Goes on YouTube
Today is a good day. Not just because it's Friday, but because the very first episode of the very first season of Bob Ross's The Joy of Painting is now online.
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A Land Art Memorial 30 Years in the Making Opens in Italy
After three decades of construction, Alberto Burri's monumental land art installation "Grande Cretto" has finally opened to the public, The Art Newspaper reports.
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Lenin, I Am Your Father: Darth Vader Engulfs Ukrainian Communist Statue (and Brings Free Wifi)
A city in Ukraine has gone over to the dark side.
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Attention, Starving Artists: Lower East Side Burger Joint Now Selling $64 "Basquiat Burger"
PYT Burger, a fancy new joint on Bowery in Manhattan known for its "stunt burgers," is hoping Basquiat's name will help sell a $64 burger. It's enough to make a starving artist cry.
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Street Artist Covers Bill Cosby Mural with a Grinning Kim Jong Un
For one afternoon, the grinning face of Bill Cosby on a mural owned by Washington, D.C.'s famed eatery Ben's Chili Bowl was hidden under Kim Jong Un's beaming visage.
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See 14 Minutes of Deleted Terry Gilliam Animations for 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail'
Snails with beards, rectal trumpeting, and ditties about King Arthur abound in Terry Gilliam's never-before-seen deleted animations for Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
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Inside Harlem's New Starchitect-Designed Children's Museum
The Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art and Storytelling, which opened this past weekend in Harlem, says its target audience is kids between ages three and eight, but art lovers of any age will likely find it worth a visit.
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Tokyo Plagued by Another Logo Plagiarism Fiasco
Tokyo has been working hard to strengthen and promote its brand as it gears up to host the 2020 Olympic Games, but the Japanese capital is having a rough time of it, hiring designers who are short on inspiration.
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Gargoyles of Charlie Hebdo Cartoonists Appear on 12th-Century French Tower
A pair of gargoyles commemorating slain Charlie Hebdo cartoonists Jean "Cabu" Cabut and Georges Wolinski were unveiled Monday on the renovated exterior of the Tour de la Lanterne, a tower in La Rochelle whose oldest sections date back to the late 12th century.
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Christopher Columbus Statue Gets an Axe to the Face
Someone in Detroit celebrated Columbus Day this year by taping an ax to a bust commemorating the explorer, splashing on some red paint for full dramatic effect.
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Secret Canine-Hater Wes Anderson Is Making a Stop-Motion Film About Dogs
Dogs in Wes Anderson films typically have a bad time.
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Watch Chantal Akerman's Films for Free on Hulu
For 12 days, the Criterion Collection has made its entire catalogue of Akerman’s work available for viewing on Hulu for free.