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Wal-Mart Art

Getting Your Kicks

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The Real Frida Kahlo

A new exhibition offers insights into the Mexican painter’s private life

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The Game is Afoot

Just in time for the Venice Biennale…

Jeff Marx and Bobby Lopez at work on Avenue Q.

Broadway, Inc.

With shows like Legally Blonde and Wicked, the era of the name-brand musical is in full swing

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The Art of Pizza

Cooking up the world’s most authentic pie in Naples, Italy

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A Hip Tradition

The age-old art of hula is still moving and shaking

What inspires French perfume nose Celiné Ellena? "Just looking at people and how they live, hearing what they are talking about, seeing what kind of clothes they are wearing," she says.

FOR HIRE: Perfume Nose

A third-generation fragrance expert tells us how to smell a winner

High Art for 41 Cents

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Flights of Fancy

Leslie Payne’s flying machines soared, if only in his imagination

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What’s Up

Playing with words, painting on plexiglass and wearing teeth

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Ghosts in the Sagebrush

Tumbledown structures recall dude ranching’s heyday

Portuguese King Manuel I (who ruled from 1495-1521), commissioned this Belgian tapestry to commemorate explorer Vasco da Gama's "discovery" of India in 1498. Da Gama is the figure at the left, kneeling before an Indian sultan. In the center, Portuguese sailors load exotic animals—including, strangely, a unicorn—into their ships, for transport to the Portuguese royal zoo.

Global Empire

The curator of an ambitious new exhibition explains how Portugal brought the world together

Course du BOC 2010

Guiding Lights

Owen Edwards, an old hand at writing our “Object at Hand” column, explains and how he developed a passion for motorcycle racing

“Collecting” Art on the Cheap

Matthew Barney

A Secret Performance

Tempered chaos is key for painter Maggie Michael (in her Washington, D.C. studio). "In control or out of control; loved or loving; sexual or violent; my work relates to different aspects of our humanness," she says.

Artist on the Rise

Contemporary artist Maggie Michael shakes up abstract painting by giving control a chance

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One Man’s Trash

Many artists throughout history, including Van Gogh, Cellini, and Michelangelo, have led lives worthy of tabloid headlines.

Artists Behaving Badly

Temperamental masters of the art world

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