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    Artist Caroline Burghardt Visits Hippie HeavenBurghardt’s dirty-elbowed hippie is swathed in heavenly light. Is she Jesus’s secret girlfriend? Joni Mitchell?
    By Emma Pearse
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    Artist Shen Jingdong Gives You Reservists With a SmileShen Jingdong, who served for sixteen years in the Chinese military, merges Pop Art with Marxist propaganda.
    By Emma Pearse
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    Photographer Lia Halloran Captures Skaters Hitting Warp SpeedJ.J. Abrams would do well to take a look at Lia Halloran’s spooky photographs of late-night skate parks.
    By Emma Pearse
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    We Can’t Wait for ‘FBI Art Squad,’ the MovieGuns, danger, sexy naked paintings — what else do you need?
    By Dan Kois
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    Photographer André Cypriano’s Line in the SandAnd that line is not, surprisingly, ‘HELF.’
    By Sadye Teiser
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    Brooklyn Artist, American Graffiti Activists Arrested in BeijingJames Powderly let friends know he was being held via Twitter direct message.
    By Dan Kois
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    Artist Adria Sartore Not the Least Bit Worried About Grass StainsAdria Sartore’s unimpressed redhead, ‘Flora 9,’ looks like she’s just landed, but we’re not sure from where or when.
    By Emma Pearse
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    Artist Stephen Wilkes Goes Behind the Scenes at the OlympicsWhile humans behave like superheroes inside the arena, outside, an army of workers keeps the Olympics running smoothly.
    By Emma Pearse
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    Ragtag Band of Communal Artists on Makeshift Boats Declare: We Are Not Hippies’The men, in vests, trousers, beards and derby hats, seemed inspired by members of the Band.’
    By Dan Kois
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    The Hidden ‘Weekend Arts’As summer-desperate editors have always known, any idea, no matter how goofy, can be stretched into a popular recurring feature.
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    Artist Yoshitomo Nara Gets a Big HeadNara’s ‘Puff Marshie’ was inspired by childhood, just before all the icky stuff creeps in.
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    Artist E.V. Day Unveils BDSM BarbieDay turns a sultry-eyed Barbie into a glamorous bondage model.
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    Artists Liz Magic Laser and Felicia Garcia-Rivera Get Cold FeetShe’s walking on ice shoes!
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    Artist Anya Gallaccio Sends You Dead Flowers Every MorningAnother attractive Armageddon!
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    Photographer Gerald Edwards III Makes the Apocalypse FabulousGerald Edwards III might have an even more optimistic vision of humanity’s impending extinction than those dazzling animation geniuses over at Pixar.
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    Upside-Down Photographer Robin Rhode Plays Billiards on CeilingBilliards are apparently the unofficial national pastime of South Africa, though they don’t play it on the ceiling as Rohde might have you believe.
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    Artist Cathleen Faubert Is Totally Going to Lose Her Security DepositCathleen Faubert’s digital image is just simply gorgeous, the sort of art we want on our own walls at home to remind us what Heaven looks like when you’re a dangerous girl.
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    Artist Deborah Hamon Takes a Stand on the FlagDeborah Hamon’s cocky summer girl cuts an imposing figure in her sporty blue shorts.
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    Artists Walter Martin and Paloma Munoz’s Snow Globes…OF HORROR!Walter Martin and Paloma Munoz’s globes are glistening spheres unfolding with macabre familial scenes in which delicate adults are exposed in moments of terror.
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    Artist Mario Ybarra Jr. Is Delightfully Misinformed on the Mating Rituals of SquirrelsThe scenes unfolding among the citizens of Mario Ybarra Jr.’s “Black Squirrel Society†are surprisingly human considering they take place atop stumps.
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    Artist Hannah Micley Hits the Snooze ButtonThis mammoth bed almost rocks like a boat moored in the sun.
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    Artist K. Min Sacrifices a Perfectly Good MuffinK. Min’s quiet pastel of a blueberry muffin kissing a paper bag with its hours-old (at least) grease stain is part of a show based on the color (or non-color) white.
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    Artist Patricia Piccinini Sculpts a Little Monster, Plus a Merman ThingThis vile, adorable creature was inspired by Albert Camus’s ‘The Stranger.’
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    Video Artist Erkka Nissinen Has a Fuzzy-Wuzzy ConfessorErkka Nissinen has one intricate imagination.
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    Artist Anni Ranoja’s Grass SlipperRapinoja’s shoes are crafted out of red whortleberry, a spongy green shrub that, when not stripped for the sake of fashion, shrouds a red berry said to have medicinal benefits.
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    Artist Lisa Ross Takes a Gravely Moving PhotoIt’s an adorned burial mound of the Uyghur people from the Xinjiang area of western China, designed to venerate local saints and mystics.
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    New York Finally Gets a Zaha Hadid — Just Five Years After Cincinnati!It took a while, but we’ve almost caught up with Ohio’s third largest city!
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    Artist Team Os Gemeos Turn Art Gallery Into FavelaOs Gemeos, ‘the twins’ are Octavio and Gustavo Pandolfo, who vandalize the favelas by day and sleep happy at night.
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    Artist Asako Narahashi Is Lucky She Sprung for the Waterproof CameraFor her grainy, lilting photographs, Asako Narahashi floats chest deep in the ocean off the coast of Japan, her camera half-submerged in the water.
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    For Artist Bettina Sellmann, the Woods Are Lovely, Dark and DeepSellmann’s watercolor ‘The Clearing’ (2008).
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    Artist Pamela Pecchio Knows Which Way Is UpWhat do you hang above your bed?
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    Artist Pawel Althamer Is in the Skin TradePawel Althamer’s sculpture of a little girl is made of animal skin.
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    Photographer Edith Maybin’s Daughter Primps Up, Hose DownMaybin presents her 21st-century daughter in compelling Victorian settings.
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    Photographer Peter Granser Takes an Early RetirementSurprisingly pleasant scenes from the Sun City Retirement Community, in Arizona.
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    Artist Mary Reid Kelley Goes to War’I am the lover of two women,’ announces Mary Reid Kelley in her naughty, noirish video in which she plays a cartoony male WWI aviator.
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    Artist Cai Jin Has Good Taste in Bathroom FixturesDo not despoil this painted bathtub with your filthy body, please.
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    Artist Michael McGarry Makes Spider-Man a Management ConsultantOnce he swung form this roof. Now he stands there.
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    Artist Robert Therrien Could Probably Use a New DishwasherRobert Therrien’s colossal stacks of pots and pans looks like your kitchen if you were to ignore the dishes for a month.
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    Artist Adam Wallacavage: the Undisputed World Leader in Barnacled Light FixturesOne can only imagine the nursery of Wallcagave’s progeny.
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    Artist BLU Makes Animated VandalismThe Italian artist brings the streets of Buenos Aires to the small screen.
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    Video: Artist Joshua Allen Harris Turns Garbage Bags Into World’s Greatest Balloon AnimalsHarris creates giant inflatable animals that come alive when fastened to a sidewalk grate.
    By Jonah Green
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    Sage Sohier Photographs a Guy Who Was Crazed in a BarnIs this how Tim “the Tool Man†Taylor came into the world?
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    So Wait, What Is Peter Greenaway’s ‘Last Supper’ Thing?We track down some Web video that shows just how cool the mysterious Milan project was.
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    Is the Met a Death Trap of Plummeting Sculpture? An Exhibit Designer Explains (Updated)We ask Vulture brother (and former Met designer) Dennis Kois if this was his fault.
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    Artist Carol John’s Paintings Are ExplosiveCarol John’s paintings are zesty and merry, with polka dots, blobs, and all manner of zap and swirl.
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    Literally Breaking! Fifteenth-Century Terra-cotta Sculpture Falls Off Wall at MetIs the Met a death trap???
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    Artist Ming Fay Says Try the Monkey BrainsFay says his art represents a metaphorical garden of a man’s mind.
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    Jerry Saltz Goes Chasing ‘Waterfalls’Don’t go to the waterfalls wanting to be wowed. But you may be wooed.
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    Artist Rachel Selekman Cuts the Middleman Out of Flower-WateringIs this Big Edie Beale’s watering can?
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    Painter Jocelyn Hobbie’s Subjects Forgot to Close the Birdcage Door, Fasten ShirtsJocelyn Hobbie’s ‘Rec Room’ (2007).
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