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Four-year-old Aelita Andre welcomed art lovers to the opening of her first solo art exhibit called The Prodigy of Color at the Agora Gallery in Manhattan on Saturday.
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6.500 Year Old Baby Goes on Display in World’s Largest Mummy Exhibition
Peruvian child mummy in a remarkable state of preservation and dated to 4504-4457 BC.
More than 6,500 years ago in Peru, this tiny baby’s brief battle for life finally came to an end. The child, no more than 10 months old, had a serious heart defect and suffered from growth problems. After contracting pneumonia and then suffering circulation failure the sick child died and was wrapped in linen and buried with an amulet hung around its neck. (pics)
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Las Vegas Museum Rivalry Pitches Murdered Mobster’s Daughter Against Mayor Who Represented Suspected Killer
Sam Giancana, the murdered mobster whose daughter is backing the Las Vegas Mob Experience.
By the time you discover whether you’ve been tapped for the path to unquestioned respect and cash handouts, or for a bullet through the brain, it will be too late. But unlike the real gangsters, visitors to the Las Vegas Mob Experience will get a second chance to discover what led them down the path to being “made” as a full member of the mafia, or getting “whacked”.
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Upside Down House In Germany
Upside down house
An installation of an upside down house in Trassenheide Germany was opened to the public two weeks ago and was designed by Polish partners Klaudiusz Golos and Sebastion Mikuciuk for the Edutainment exhibition company. (Pics)
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Autonomous Living Unit
Autonomous Living Unit
Designer Eduardo McIntosh has proposed a way of putting all the functions of a home into a single chair. (Pics)
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Gruesome Human Skin Art By Andrew Krasnow
Andrew Krasnow with his ‘Palette’ made of skin from people who donated their bodies to medical science
Some will find it shocking, macabre, echoing the worst allegations of Nazi atrocities. An American artist has spent the past 20 years making sculptures out of human skin.
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Controversial Body World’s Exhibit Strikes Again
The German anatomist Gunther von Hagens has stirred controversy and curiosity with his Body Worlds exhibition.
By now, people around the world have become used to the periodic provocations eminating from the plastinated human corpses displayed by Gunther von Hagens. But he may have outdone himself in a new Berlin exhibition. (Pics)
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Cellophane House
Trying to hide from the neighbors? Well you definitely wouldn’t want to live in the cellophane house.
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Growing Natural Crystal Furniture
Tokujin Yoshioka’s chair made from growing natural crystals will headline the exhibition Second Nature opening on the 17th in Tokyo this month. The Venus chair builds on his earlier work such as Honey-pop (2001) which used a honeycombed paper structure to obtain it’s strength and the Pane chair (2006) made of a translucent spongy material called polyester elastomer. The Venus chair is grown in a tank, the production process half controlled by Yoshioka and half left up to nature.
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The Jelly Box: Workspace For The 21st Century
Ever think about what it would be like to see the world from inside a Jell-O mold? Looking like a Jell-O mold, but calling itself the Jelly Box, this new workspace is now on display at the Truman Brewery during London 2008 Design Week. This clever design by architect David Hingamp of the London firm Archic, has just been named runner up in the 2008 Urbantine Project.
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