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‘Dollhouses of Death’: New Hampshire woman’s crime-scene dioramas have taught investigators
Growing up in the late 19th century, Frances Glessner Lee was a typical young lady from a well-to-do family, but she had one rather unorthodox passion. Murder was her hobby. By Shawne K. Wickham.
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Meet the man saving L.A.’s street art one mural at a time.
In late 2006, art conservator Scott Haskins received a call from the federal government. They were on the hunt for an expert witness, experienced in mural restoration.
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Graffiti combines Cubism with Realism.
Spanish street artist Miguel Ángel Belinchón, better known as Belin, creates hyperrealistic portraits with a cubist twist.
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Incredibly lifelike insects crafted out of bamboo.
Japanese craftsman Noriyuki Saitoh, who is famous for catching anatomical substances with uncanny aptitude, develops life-sized creepy crawlies utilizing bamboo sticks.
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These 100-year-old glass flowers are so accurate, they rival the real thing.
the Blaschkas, who had already established a thriving glassmaking business, Leopold, the elder Blaschka, had begun his career making costume jewelry, chandelier attachments, and other luxury goods. He even made glass eyes, both for human use and taxidermy. They used a process called lampworking or flameworking to craft their masterpieces. The collection is housed in a dedicated gallery at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
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Boyle Family
Two Step Films Ltd.
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Decadent pastries formed from porcelain and glass.
Shayna Leib is a glass artist with 20 years experience in the field to-date.
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Everyday plastic objects fill a Scottish greenhouse with faux flora.
The two artists subbed cacti and other succulents for everyday plastic objects found around the house, instead “planting” gloves, combs, and plastic cups in real terra cotta pots.
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From Basquiat to Pollock: Seven Seminal Artist Biopics
These compelling portraits of artistic genius are integral viewing for all art and film lovers. By Daisy Woodward.
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Moebius Gives 18 Wisdom-Filled Tips to Aspiring Artists
Jean Giraud, aka Moebius, was a comic book artist who combined blinding speed with boundless imagination. He shaped the look of Alien, Empire Strikes Back and The Fifth Element. He reimagined the Silver Surfer for Stan Lee. And he is an acknowledged influence on everyone from Japanese animating great Hayao Miyazaki to sci-fi writer William Gibson...
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Artists and their bohemian ateliers.
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An Artist for the Instagram Age
Is Yayoi Kusama’s new participatory-art exhibit about seeking profound experiences—or posting selfies?
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The Renaissance artist who cast live snakes, frogs, and lizards to make his ceramics.
French 16th-century artist Bernard Palissy was known to capture live plant and animals species to create his vibrant ceramic plates, basins and vessels.
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German resistance hero inspires anti-Trump street art
The vintage-style propaganda posters in Washington, DC take aim at white supremacism, racism – and Donald Trump. A daring act of resistance, or an insulting slur on the US President? By Rachel Stewart.
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Human Forms in Nature: Ernst Haeckel’s Trip to South Asia and Its Aftermath
An early promoter and populariser of Darwin's evolutionary theory, the German biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel was a hugely influential figure of the late 19th century. Bernd Brunner looks at how a trip to Sri Lanka sowed the seeds for not only Haeckel's majestic illustrations from his Art Forms in Nature, for which he is perhaps best known today, but also his disturbing ideas on race and eugenics.
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21 Lego artists designing wonders.
LEGO-centric artists who are redefining a new era of creative artwork:
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The top 25 street artists working in Britain today.
25 artists working in Britain today. They don’t have to be British but they do have to be resident so visitors from elsewhere who rock up, do an amazing mural and leave, are not included.
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Saving the art and home of Mary Nohl, whose neighbors called her a witch.
Mary Nohl (1914–2001) was a wood-carver, painter, sculptor, ceramist, printmaker, potter, writer, illustrator, and jeweler. The John Michael Kohler Arts Center is restoring the Wisconsin art environment of Mary Nohl to what it looked like around 1998, when it was filled with art from floor to ceiling.
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Huge street art mural with only a roller - NYC
Kiptoe
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Russian street artists delete car in real world using clever optical illusion.
The work was part of Stenograffia, an annual Russian street art festival, and it’s certainly a creative way of addressing “garbage” in the country. Titled CTRL+X, this checkered piece is a reference to a keyboard command in Photoshop that deletes a selection.