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A MOMA visitor enjoys the new exhibit.
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Everyone Thought It Was Art When These Clever Teens Put Glasses on a Museum Floor

Teens.
Cara Giaimo May 26, 2016
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These Artists Twist Thousands of Rubik's Cubes a Day to Create Massive Murals

Cube Works invokes childhood nostalgia and old toys to create its retro artwork.
Lauren Young May 25, 2016
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Found: 70 Hidden Cave Paintings From 14,500 Years Ago

There are horses, goats, deer and an impaled bison, among others.
Sarah Laskow May 25, 2016
Henrietta Hyde (Windsor Beauties)
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What the Most Alluring Women of 17th-Century England Looked Like

Beauty was an asset, a weapon, and a curse for the ladies of the Restoration court.
Ella Morton May 24, 2016
Duane Flatmo's Extreme Makeover crosses the Bay during 2005's Grand Championship
Arcata, California

Kinetic Grand Championship

Humboldt's human-powered sculptures race across land and sea for days on end in a wacky quest for dominance.
Permanently Closed
Looking down one of the supermarket's aisles
Shanghai, China

Shanghart Supermarket

This supermarket in Shanghai appears to be a typical Chinese convenience store, but all of the bottles are empty and all the containers are filled with nothing but air.
Unfinished house with strange chimneys
González Catán, Argentina

Campanópolis

An Argentinian businessman facing terminal cancer built this whimsical medieval village using salvaged materials.
A few of Gunderson's newest carvings.
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The Woodcarver Drawing Secret Faces on Trees at This Canadian Park

"The Magic Man of Cottonwood Island."
Cara Giaimo May 16, 2016
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The Hidden History of America's 19th-Century Mania for Panoramic Prints

Itinerant artists made almost 5,000 views of 2,400 different places.
Sarah Laskow May 11, 2016
No one is sure who owns this now.
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Mystery Person Buys $17.2 Million Kneeling Hitler

This sculpture is made of human hair and wax.
Cara Giaimo May 10, 2016
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Court Rules Figurines Modeled on This Artist's Vagina Are Art

There's a lot going on here.
Erik Shilling May 9, 2016
The Fallen Star installation is now part of the permanent collection at UCSD
San Diego, California

Fallen Star

This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.
The Devil's Heads
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Curious and Compelling Statues in the Czech Republic

The country is home to the world's strangest and most thought-provoking statues.
Chill forest
Santa Fe, New Mexico

House of Eternal Return

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.
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For Sale: Rare Picasso Tableware that Could Fetch Millions

A complete set on auction for the first time.
Eric Grundhauser May 2, 2016
Nine Mile Canyon - the BLM has advised it as "an area of critical environmental concern"
Carbon County, Utah

Nine Mile Canyon

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.
The erstwhile home and workplace of a renegade artist
Los Angeles, California

Tom House

Historic house-museum dedicated to the revolutionary gay graphic artist Tom of Finland.
Lily Simonson in mid-sketch, next to a glacier.
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What It's Like To Be The Only Painter In Antarctica

Making art at the bottom of the world, where paint freezes and the best subjects are millimeters long.
Cara Giaimo April 20, 2016