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Edwige Fouvry, a Brussels-based painter who is having her second solo exhibition at Dolby Chadwick Gallery in San Francisco, is interested in finding order and structure in chaos. Her painterly thickets, clearings and wo...

YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) -- A fundraising event for children's art in Michigan has pitted participants with big appetites against 20-foot-long bratwursts that weigh close to 6 pounds. Twelve competitors and hundreds of onlo...

Narcissa is the new restaurant from Michelin star rated Chef John Fraser. Located in The Standard, East Village in NYC, it has opened to the delight of guests and critics. The famed chef’s vegetable-driven menu, roasti...

New York and baseball's Yankees, it's a love affair that might've ended in some recrimination in the previous fall, but in spring, hope does spring eternal, and the Yankees become the main game in town. The Yankees, who ...

A party can be equally intimidating to guests (wear the right outfit, provide sparkling conversation, know somebody beyond the host) as it is for the host (play the right music, serve the right food/drinks, invite the ri...

This sun-powered parasol could be coming to Paris streets. Designed by Amorphica and urban planner Leemor Chandally, the structures are meant to filter air and provide heat in addition to keeping your head dry.

Valerio Spada (1972, Milan) is not merely a photographer, but a careful observer; a geologist who deeply knows how the human being functions, thinks, and loves. To him, Art means faith: "Not a way to change the world, bu...

Somewhere deep in the U.K. is an abandoned hotel. While busy wasting away in the foggy land, a collective group of street artists decided it should serve as their next temporary canvas. Creating an "alternative art galle...

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After retiring from VCU 10 years ago, a gifted Chuck Scalin began teaching courses in collage and assemblage at Richmond's Studio School of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Now he's pulled together a group exhibition, s...

"I have to say very stupidly today that I thought that nymphomania was about exploring sexual pleasure," Charlotte Gainsbourg says while sipping tea in a New York hotel room. "Very quickly, (director) Lars (von Trier) ex...

San Francisco-based shop Mission Bicycle has created the Lumen, a bike that's painted to look almost black during the day, but glows at night. The retro-reflective paint illuminates when hit by ambient light, at a distan...

After a two-year media blitz featuring one salacious blurb after another, the expectations going into Lars von Trier's "Nymphomaniac" are understandably bloated. Just how explicit are the sex scenes? When are porn double...

English director Tom Morris and South Africa's Handspring Puppet Company brought the world "War Horse," a sensation thanks in large part to the show's graceful, stunningly realistic life-size horse puppets.

Northwestern University students are celebrating "Sex Week" on campus, and what better way to highlight the event than with a quite literal tongue-in-cheek parody of the viral hit "First Kiss" video? (It's a rhetorical q...

It's the best time of the week! We've rounded up some great money-saving sales happening right now, so you can score some steals on your favorite decor. HD Buttercup is offering 15% off big-ticket sofas, coffee tables an...

"Wall-E" managed to prove that robots, trash and dystopian society could actually be kind of adorable. Could anything be cuter than a couple of animated robots falling in love? Yes. It's almost like a cheap trick, but Th...

Tiny pennant cake toppers? Hand-sewn birthday banners? Themed craft downloadable printables? If the thought of all that work sends a shiver down your spine, no worries! It is actually possible to throw a great party for ...

It's official: Kanye West and Kim Karadashian are the #worldsmosttalkedaboutcouple. Don't take our word for it: Vogue, the bible of all things Hollywood and culture, says so. That's right, months after Kanye was telling ...

It’s official: Kanye West and Kim Karadashian are the #worldsmosttalkedaboutcouple. Don’t take our word for it: Vogue, the bible of all things Hollywood and culture, says so. That’s right, months after Kanye was te...

NEW YORK (AP) -- In the beginning of their work together on "Noah," director Darren Aronofsky made Russell Crowe a promise: "I'll never shoot you on a houseboat in a robe and sandals with two giraffes popping up behind y...

It's the signatures on the nation's best-known documents, of course, that draw the lines of visitors to the National Archives. But other than the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and other landmark pieces in...