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Artist Joins Forces with Four-Year-Old Daughter to Create Whimsical Portraits
Hollywood slug people brought to you by an artist and her genius four-year-old
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Oil Paint Engineered Out of Toxic Waste
An engineer and an artist transform toxic waste into oil paints and wondrous works of art.
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3D Print Your Own Art Masterpiece Forgery
Here is a story to both perturb and titillate the sensitive art-lovers among us.
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The 12 Best Things to See at the Melbourne Festival 2013
105 events in 45 venues in just 17 days. If you get your head around 12 of them, your Melbourne Festival will have been a success.
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Unlikely Objects from the Bizarre Imagination of an Italian Artist
Unlikely objects invite the doublest of double-takes.
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The Discerning Lego-Builder Now Has Minimalist, All-White Bricks
Lego launches a versatile set for would-be architects.
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Scale a Stairway of Lights and Blossoms in Sicily
The ingenious festival decorations of Sicily's most magnificent staircase.
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Melbourne Festival Is After Your Heart with 2013 Program
A ten-hour theatre show, a concert in the dark and a giant Welcome to Country mark Melbourne Festival 2013.
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First FBI-Curated Art Show Puts Forgeries on Display
Warhol, Chagall, de Kooning, Gauguin, Matisse, Rembrandt, Renoir - what a bunch of big fat fakes.
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Uncarriable Carrier Bags Shaming Us Into Environment Protection
The plastic bag fashion statement that may just save the environment.
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Sensual Body Landscapes by Photographer Carl Warner
Carl Warner makes the literary literal in a series of 'landscapes' composed entirely of naked men and women.
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Art Spiegelman, Grant Morrison and More Announced for GRAPHIC Festival
GRAPHIC is like arty Comic-Con, and you don't need to be an uber-fan to feel part of the party.
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Ghostly Dresses Photographed Underwater
A 1000 litre pool, inner-city backyard and theatrical garments combine.
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Arts House Opens Door to Season Two
Fire, murder, fight clubs and a semi-sci-fi take on online journalism feature in the cutting-edge season 2.0.
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Hipsters at the Gate: Greek Agora Classics get a Wardrobe Update
Ever wondered what the Ancient Greeks might look like in 2013? Wonder no more.
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Poetic Photography that Visualises Haikus
Rina Vukobratovic gives her childhood haikus a new, photographic life.
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Get Your Art on a Tram (Legally)
Melbourne Art Trams will gussy up eight trams with bold works.
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Instagram Goes Deep with iAfghanistan Photojournalism
Ben Lowy's mesmerising wartime photos show iPhoneography's full potential.
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Surprisingly Beautiful Photographs from the Secret Underworld of Drains
There's suffering for your art, and then there's fighting off cockroach armies to take a photo.
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Les Bains, Paris: The Best Street Art Collection No-one Can See
Derelict Parisian nightclub Les Bains plays host to the world's most respected street artists - but alas, you're still not on the guestlist.
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MONA Reveals Dark Mofo Festival Program – And Will Fly You There for Free
Enough art, music and jet fuel to blast through the winter chill.
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The Beauty of Decaying Theatres
Photographer Julia Solis brings us 100+ images of the hub of mid 20th-century popular culture.
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How the Internet, Marina Abramovic and Dachshunds Made Performance Art Cool
What is it? Why is it? Huh?
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Food Is Artist Hong Yi’s Latest Paintbrush
Hong Yi creates delicate artworks from everyday victuals.
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Artist Jay Shells Swaps Street Signs with Rap Lyrics
Meet you on the corner of 'Cause I want to be on 106 and Park pushing a Benz'.
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Book Spine Poetry That Speaks Volumes
A lifelong book fetish becomes fun and quirky poetic art.
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Artist Bradley Hart Finds Unusual Use for Bubble Wrap
Bradley Hart would not like it if you popped his bubble wrap.
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Vivid Sydney Announces 2013 Lineup
The festival turns five this year, and is celebrating with its most dazzling lineup yet.
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Four Interesting Ideas in the New Australian Cultural Policy
The Gillard Government announced their long-awaited cultural policy which look set to have some unexpectedly awesome consequences
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Seven Forward-Thinking Foodies Create Meals from the Future
Good news for people who like needles, kelp and insects.
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When a Building Brightens a Neighbourhood
Reko Rennie's Welcome to Redfern is part of a history of large-scale murals that have driven urban renewal.
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Picasso’s Cubist Portraits Brought to Life in Photography
Spanish photographer Eugenio Recuenco reinterprets Picasso's Cubist portraits with live models.
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Be Transported by Smithsonian Magazine’s 10th Annual Photo Contest Finalists
Forget the official winners or the Reader's Choice Award, we present Concrete Playground's best of the Smithsonian Photo Contest.
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How Reasonable Things Still Get Banned by the Australian Classification Board
I Want Your Love is in the spotlight after James Franco's YouTube rant, but it's banning is just one of many 'silly' decisions made by Australian censors over the years.
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The Off-White Album: How History and Decay Affect 45-Year-Old Records
No matter what their colour, condition or quality, Rutherford Chang wants your iconic 1968 Beatles 'White Album'.
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Berlin Wall Is Being Torn Down…Again
For the second time in a matter of only a few years, a chunk of the Berlin Wall, and the striking art that covers it, is set to be torn down