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This article originally appeared on artnet News. by Eileen Kinsella Gustav Klimt, Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907) ©Neue Galerie New York. Nine years ago, when cosmetics magnate and top collector Ronald Lauder, co-founder of ...

Pearl River Mart, the famed Chinese department store that's been a New York staple for more than four decades, is closing at the end of the year. Since 2003, the store has occupied three levels on Broadway in SoHo--its r...

Whenever Donald Trump's around, it's always the Trump Show. So when the blustery mogul invited his pal, Serena Williams, to help him inaugurate the new tennis center at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va., on T...

Comcast versus DirecTV: A feud that just took another twist. After complaints by Comcast, the National Advertising Division (NAD) of the Better Business Bureau has just recommended that DirecTV should get rid of some cla...

Literary reviewers, quake in your boots: It's VIDA Count day once again. Now in its sixth year and celebrating the publication of its fifth count, VIDA delivers an annual jolt to the literary community with its report on...

As is always the case when we travel the world, whether on a plane or through the screen, getting exposed to ideas that hail from much farther than our own backyards teaches us new things. Such is the case with these Aus...

Meural is a New York-based startup blurring the lines between art and technology. This isn't your grandma's digital frame; using an ultra-thin matte LCD display framed in maple, you can update your art collection via Meu...

Long gone are the days of uploading a photo straight from your smartphone to Facebook. Instagram is always adding new ways to edit your pics. On Tuesday the photo editing and sharing app announced it will soon integrate ...

Each year thousands of young talented artists flock to big cities such as New York and Los Angeles to pursue their dreams. The global appeal in the spirit of LA first attracted artist Brooke Harker, whose friendly Iowa u...

Name: Ever (4 months) Location: Wadsworth, Ohio After two boys we were ecstatic to welcome our daughter, Ever, last fall. Her "not too girly" girl's room was such a fun space to design. Since it only has the one window w...

In the city, we blend the familiar with the edge of the unknown. I doubt that before today, any urbanist writer has used an old, Latin term that lives on in southern Italy, to explain the particular wonder of certain cit...

The Cool Kids is a HuffPost series documenting creative humans shaping present day society with their work and outlook. Lauren Geremia | Founder | Geremia Design Lauren Geremia is the founder and principal designer of Ge...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. Postal Service is issuing a new limited edition "Forever" stamp honoring the late poet, author and civil rights champion Maya Angelou. Angelou rose from poverty, segregation and violence to be...

Comedy Hype thinks Dave Chappelle might have been filming a new comedy special this week in Austin and is reporting that, according to their sources, it's for HBO. If true, it would be Chappelle's second for the network;...

Photographer Seth Casteel has made a name for himself with his adorable images of puppies and dogs swimming underwater, which he compiled into five photo books. His latest project focuses the camera on a different specie...

When Henry Louis Gates Jr. first called his good friend Oprah Winfrey to tell her that their "sister friend" Maya Angelou, who died at 86 in May, would soon have her own United States "forever" stamp, Winfrey's first rea...

I believe that Diego Rivera's and Frida Kahlo's frescoes, currently at the Detroit Institute of Arts and Jean Michel Basquiat; The Unknown Notebooks, currently at the Brooklyn Museum since last Friday, are examples of a ...

Source: Isabelle's Top Floor Flat in London on Apartment Therapy My friend's newly purchased apartment includes a short interior staircase and I suggested she paint the stair rails the same color as the (blue) wall behin...

Ballet requires dedication, strength, confidence, bravery, endurance, grace, hope, joy, passion, concentration, memory, self-esteem, flexibility, knowing who you are, critical analysis, adaptability, ability to learn qui...

In a society where we are hit with images that range from young girls beating on each other to assaulting our elders, one must wonder and question where is the love? Where is the love for self and those around us? While ...

Homemade candles are fun to make and are great gifts that can be personalized by picking out specific containers and scents. Don't want to fuss with a double boiler and a bunch of candle-making equipment? Don't have to! ...

Tourists at the White House today had something else to snap a pic of other than those marble columns: Actors Shailene Woodley and Joseph Gordon-Levitt were filming a scene from the upcoming flick "Snowden" with 1600 Pen...