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Posted 11/20/08 in Vulture

Art Candy

Photographer Cindy Sherman Does Her Best Kirsten Dunst

For the 1990-era series, Sherman transformed into famous forlorn contessas. Here, she channels a reclining Marie Antoinette.

Posted 11/19/08 in Vulture

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Artist Holly Andres Apparently the Victim of ‘Milk’ Viral Marketing

Holly Andres might be the slightly crazy girl who always shows up to your stoop sale in search of the gaudiest objects you can't believe anyone would pay for.

Posted 11/18/08 in Vulture

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Artist Jeff Sonhouse Saves You the Cost of LSD

Sonhouse paints prominent and not so prominent African-Americans into colorful, distorted, geometrical compositions that render the subject barely recognizable.

Posted 11/17/08 in Vulture

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Artist Bogdan Rata Injured in Horrific Teleportation Accident

Rata's foot-slash-hand (fand? hoot?) looks like something out of the trailer for J.J. Abram's 'Star Trek.'

Posted 11/14/08 in Vulture

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Photographer Cindy Sherman Sports Latest Disguise

Sherman continues to impress us.

Posted 11/13/08 in Vulture

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Photographer Renate Aller Could’ve Sworn Those Ice Caps Were There a Minute Ago

Aller's show is a series of neat photographs of different versions of the same seascape.

Posted 11/12/08 in Vulture

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Photographer Mickey Smith Goes to the Library

Smith's polished photographs pay homage to the days when hanging at the library was cool.

Posted 11/11/08 in Vulture

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Artist Casey Ruble Will Blow Your Little Mind

Ruble's gouache works look like hallucinogenic versions of those scratch-n-sniff children's books.

Posted 11/10/08 in Vulture

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Artist Luigi Benedicenti Orders a Suggestive Dessert

Benedicenti's paintings are of delicious treats like cream-filled profiteroles, pears dripping in caramel, and the sunniest of sunny-side up breakfast eggs.

Posted 11/07/08 in Vulture

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Artist Tessa Farmer Kills Tinkerbell

Tessa Farmer's fairies are made of dead insects and live on twisted plant roots and animal carcasses.

Posted 11/06/08 in Vulture

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Artist Michael Buhler-Rose Visits Bollywood, Florida

Michael Buhler-Rose seems to have stumbled upon an outpost of Bollywood extras waiting for their big moment.

Posted 11/05/08 in Vulture

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Artist Jonathan Horowitz Is Just As Excited As You Are

Horowitz has cobbled together a very appropriate wall decoration for Obama’s new office.

Posted 11/04/08 in Vulture

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Artist Jonathan Horowitz Does Some Last-Minute Electioneering

For those still undecided, Jonathan Horowitz has some voting advice.

Posted 11/03/08 in Vulture

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Photographer Catherine Opie Is Saving Up for That Zoom Lens

Opie is best known as a provocateur, but she also has a talent for subtlety.

Posted 10/31/08 in Vulture

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Artist Zhang Peng Takes a Bloodbath

Don't you sort of wish you could be her for Halloween?

Posted 10/30/08 in Vulture

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Beck Slays World’s Biggest Clown; Photographer Autumn De Wilde Is There

When Beck holds the weight of the world in his hands, it looks like this: glowing, red, and in the shape of an egg.

Posted 10/29/08 in Vulture

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Artist Mary Jo Vath Is Saving That One for Later

This darling, somewhat mournful scene is like a mini-ballet.

Posted 10/28/08 in Vulture

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Photographer Lise Sarfati Makes Already-Awkward Bath Slightly More Awkward

Lise Sarfati mingles high art with documentary.

Posted 10/24/08 in Vulture

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Artist Daniel McDonald Does the Monster Mash

Daniel McDonald's latest figurine-studded dioramas reenact the struggle for autonomy among the creative classes.

Posted 10/23/08 in Vulture

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Artist Olaf Breuning Submits the Worst-Ever ‘Project Runway’ Application

As glamour shots go, this one is overflowing with such playful grotesquerie that the only response is a gagging retch crossed with a laugh.