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    Artist Adria Sartore Not the Least Bit Worried About Grass StainsAdria Sartore’s unimpressed redhead, ‘Flora 9,’ looks like she’s just landed, but we’re not sure from where or when.
    By Emma Pearse
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    Artist Stephen Wilkes Goes Behind the Scenes at the OlympicsWhile humans behave like superheroes inside the arena, outside, an army of workers keeps the Olympics running smoothly.
    By Emma Pearse
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    Artist Yoshitomo Nara Gets a Big HeadNara’s ‘Puff Marshie’ was inspired by childhood, just before all the icky stuff creeps in.
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    Artist E.V. Day Unveils BDSM BarbieDay turns a sultry-eyed Barbie into a glamorous bondage model.
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    Artists Liz Magic Laser and Felicia Garcia-Rivera Get Cold FeetShe’s walking on ice shoes!
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    Artist Anya Gallaccio Sends You Dead Flowers Every MorningAnother attractive Armageddon!
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    Photographer Gerald Edwards III Makes the Apocalypse FabulousGerald Edwards III might have an even more optimistic vision of humanity’s impending extinction than those dazzling animation geniuses over at Pixar.
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    Upside-Down Photographer Robin Rhode Plays Billiards on CeilingBilliards are apparently the unofficial national pastime of South Africa, though they don’t play it on the ceiling as Rohde might have you believe.
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    Artist Cathleen Faubert Is Totally Going to Lose Her Security DepositCathleen Faubert’s digital image is just simply gorgeous, the sort of art we want on our own walls at home to remind us what Heaven looks like when you’re a dangerous girl.
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    Artist Deborah Hamon Takes a Stand on the FlagDeborah Hamon’s cocky summer girl cuts an imposing figure in her sporty blue shorts.
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    Artists Walter Martin and Paloma Munoz’s Snow Globes…OF HORROR!Walter Martin and Paloma Munoz’s globes are glistening spheres unfolding with macabre familial scenes in which delicate adults are exposed in moments of terror.
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    Artist Mario Ybarra Jr. Is Delightfully Misinformed on the Mating Rituals of SquirrelsThe scenes unfolding among the citizens of Mario Ybarra Jr.’s “Black Squirrel Society” are surprisingly human considering they take place atop stumps.
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    Artist Hannah Micley Hits the Snooze ButtonThis mammoth bed almost rocks like a boat moored in the sun.
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    Artist K. Min Sacrifices a Perfectly Good MuffinK. Min’s quiet pastel of a blueberry muffin kissing a paper bag with its hours-old (at least) grease stain is part of a show based on the color (or non-color) white.
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    Artist Patricia Piccinini Sculpts a Little Monster, Plus a Merman ThingThis vile, adorable creature was inspired by Albert Camus’s ‘The Stranger.’
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    Video Artist Erkka Nissinen Has a Fuzzy-Wuzzy ConfessorErkka Nissinen has one intricate imagination.
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    Artist Anni Ranoja’s Grass SlipperRapinoja’s shoes are crafted out of red whortleberry, a spongy green shrub that, when not stripped for the sake of fashion, shrouds a red berry said to have medicinal benefits.
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    Artist Lisa Ross Takes a Gravely Moving PhotoIt’s an adorned burial mound of the Uyghur people from the Xinjiang area of western China, designed to venerate local saints and mystics.
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    Artist Team Os Gemeos Turn Art Gallery Into FavelaOs Gemeos, ‘the twins’ are Octavio and Gustavo Pandolfo, who vandalize the favelas by day and sleep happy at night.
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    Artist Asako Narahashi Is Lucky She Sprung for the Waterproof CameraFor her grainy, lilting photographs, Asako Narahashi floats chest deep in the ocean off the coast of Japan, her camera half-submerged in the water.
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    For Artist Bettina Sellmann, the Woods Are Lovely, Dark and DeepSellmann’s watercolor ‘The Clearing’ (2008).
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    Artist Pamela Pecchio Knows Which Way Is UpWhat do you hang above your bed?
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    Artist Pawel Althamer Is in the Skin TradePawel Althamer’s sculpture of a little girl is made of animal skin.
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    Photographer Edith Maybin’s Daughter Primps Up, Hose DownMaybin presents her 21st-century daughter in compelling Victorian settings.
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    Photographer Peter Granser Takes an Early RetirementSurprisingly pleasant scenes from the Sun City Retirement Community, in Arizona.
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    Artist Tetsumi Kudo’s Birdcage Has Overcrowding IssuesTetsumi Kudo’s ‘Portrait of an Artist in Crisis (Portrait d’artiste dans la crise).’
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    Artist Mary Reid Kelley Goes to War’I am the lover of two women,’ announces Mary Reid Kelley in her naughty, noirish video in which she plays a cartoony male WWI aviator.
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    Artist Cai Jin Has Good Taste in Bathroom FixturesDo not despoil this painted bathtub with your filthy body, please.
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    Artist Michael McGarry Makes Spider-Man a Management ConsultantOnce he swung form this roof. Now he stands there.
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    Artist Robert Therrien Could Probably Use a New DishwasherRobert Therrien’s colossal stacks of pots and pans looks like your kitchen if you were to ignore the dishes for a month.
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    Artist Adam Wallacavage: the Undisputed World Leader in Barnacled Light FixturesOne can only imagine the nursery of Wallcagave’s progeny.
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    Artist BLU Makes Animated VandalismThe Italian artist brings the streets of Buenos Aires to the small screen.
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    Sage Sohier Photographs a Guy Who Was Crazed in a BarnIs this how Tim “the Tool Man” Taylor came into the world?
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    Artist Carol John’s Paintings Are ExplosiveCarol John’s paintings are zesty and merry, with polka dots, blobs, and all manner of zap and swirl.
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    Artist Ming Fay Says Try the Monkey BrainsFay says his art represents a metaphorical garden of a man’s mind.
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    Artist Rachel Selekman Cuts the Middleman Out of Flower-WateringIs this Big Edie Beale’s watering can?
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    Painter Jocelyn Hobbie’s Subjects Forgot to Close the Birdcage Door, Fasten ShirtsJocelyn Hobbie’s ‘Rec Room’ (2007).
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    Artist Amer Kobaslija’s Cleaning Service Couldn’t Make ItSomebody call the Health Department!
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    Photographer Warwick Orme’s Flowers Gone WildOrme gives this pair of wildflowers the diva treatment.
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    Artist Tomoko Sawada Creates a Schoolyard Army of Tomoko SawadasTomoko Sawada, something of the Cindy Sherman of the Tokyo art world, shoots herself dressed in all manner of traditional Japanese garb.
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    Orange You Glad You Don’t Have Hair Like Artist Ann Pachner?It’s not clear if Pachner is making the best of a bad hair day or if said bad hair day has provoked a nuclear reaction of sorts.
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    Artist Lilly McElroy Catches a Man the Old-fashioned WayLilly McElroy throws herself at men. Short ones, bearded ones, old ones, tubby ones. Not a lot of cute ones, we have to say.
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    Artist Sigalit Landau Swims Naked Among WatermelonsIn this wall-spanning projection, Landau emerges from a coil of watermelons, buoyant in the Dead Sea.
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    Photographer James Mollison Discovers Lost Tribe of Marilyn Manson FansMollison presents his panoramic portraits of music fans outside their idols’ concerts at Hasted Hunt through August 16.
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    Dick Cheney and Mona Lisa Do Battle on Crowded CanvasThe Mona Lisa takes on Dick Cheney — and is clearly winning, with those lush purple lips and that insouciant (pervy) swan lunging from her brain.
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    Artist Tim White Makes the GradientTim White’s mellow, sparkling rendering of what the term “blank slate” should muster in the imagination.
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    Artist Lieu Nguyen Paints TreeWe look at Nguyen’s bursting cherry-blossom tree and start to fantasize about a splendid little world inside it where many creatures run happy and wild.
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    Artist Darina Karpov’s Purple HillsSometimes all we look for in our daily art candy is a lush slathering of comely lavender tones, like the one Darina Karpov lavishes on us here.
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    Artist Natsuki Uruma Tries a New PositionIt’s hard to tame our tee-heeing inner 5-year old when we behold Natsuki Uruma’s finely crafted tissue-paper prints.
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    Artist Masao Mochizuki Stalks the Queen of EnglandWe’re getting the distinct impression that Japanese photographer Masao Mochizuki is more obsessed with Queen Elizabeth II than the average British subject.
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