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Pop-up Kimchi shop in Germany seeks to help people understand diversity

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Two artists in Berlin have setup a Kimchi shop. They're not selling the Korean dish, though. They're bartering for it, and, in the process, hoping to get people talking about issues of diversity and differences.
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New York art exhibit explores how we talk to objects

The Museum of Modern Art has a new exhibition that showcases how people interact with the objects in their everyday world, and the emotions they provoke....
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Scientists show off their profession in tattoos

A writer blogged about a friend of his — a scientist — who had a particular tattoo: a strand of DNA. All of the sudden, other scientists came out of the woodwork to show off their odd ink....
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Jesse Eisenberg discusses his new work, the off-Broadway play 'Asuncion'

In the wake of his success with The Social Network, Jesse Eisenberg is performing in an off-Broadway play he also wrote, called Asuncion....
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Russia's underground artists have new target: Putin

Russia's protest artists are pioneering new forms of risky, highly public dissent, aimed at mocking Putin, Medvedev and the political class....
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Mexico's political cartoonists fight drug war

Political cartoonists in Mexico have started a campaign to educate people about the violence of the drug war in their country, which has claimed well over 40,000 lives....
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Iconic civil rights painting moves to Oval Office

President Obama installs Norman Rockwell's iconic painting, depicting the 1960 integration of the New Orleans school system, outside the Oval Office. ...
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Saving Haiti's art and culture

Haiti's art is in peril after the earthquake ravaged churches and other homes of Haiti's cultural heritage -- saving that art could help with the country's recovery....
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Food art: Oreo cookie portraits and bread embroidery

Artist Judith Klausner creates intricate Victorian-style cameo portraits carved out of Oreo cream, and old-fashioned hand-cross-stitch designs with Chex cereal....
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Statue of freed slave causes uproar in Indianapolis

Indianapolis' African-American community is protesting artist Fred Wilson's monument of a freed slave, saying it perpetuates stereotypes....
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