Scenes from Paris Fashion Week
Photos from the runways, backstages and streets of Paris Fashion Week. Spring/summer 2017 fashions are on display at Paris Fashion Week from Sept. 27 to Oct. 5.
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Art
Baltimore neighborhoods
Baltimore street photographers
Year in review
Freddie Gray: protests, aftermath
24 hours with...
A. Aubrey Bodine
Viewing Baltimore from above
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Photos and text by Kim Hairston
Scenes from New York Fashion Week
Anna Wintour wore her signature bob to one show, Deray McKesson wore his signature blue vest to another. Models smoked outside and checked their phones at New York Fashion Week, which began September 8 and runs through the 15th.
Exploring the Peabody Library’s hidden gems
All of the books at the Peabody are considered special collections – but some are more special than others. We check out the upstairs levels and the rare book collection – usually off-limits to visitors.
Bob Benson, mirror artist
Twelve years ago when Bob Benson saw a single strand of mirrors in a friend’s yard blowing in the breeze, he remembers thinking, “Boy, that has possibilities.”
Inside the ‘Big Lebowski’ house being donated to LACMA
Jackie Treehorn’s pad is becoming part of an art museum? “Far out,” we hear The Dude gasping. The living room that the film “The Big Lebowski” set in Malibu is, in real life, in the hills, not by the beach. Now, the convention- and gravity-defying home its part of, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright disciple John Lautner, is being donated to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which plans to use it for fundraisers, exhibitions, conferences, and collaborations with other museums, the L.A. Times reports. In a Times column, the museum’s director called it “one of the most important houses in all of L.A.” and “one of the most L.A. houses.”
Street art campaign brightens Palestinian refugee camp
The “Better Gaza” campaign aims to bring color and cheer to the Al-Shati camp, home to some 82,000 Palestinian refugees.
Chocolate Putin in Russia
A life-size effigy in chocolate of Russian President Vladimir Putin has been created by Russian sculptor Nikita Gusev for the Chocolate Festival in St.Petersburg, Russia. The statue weighs more than 150 pounds, and is the main attraction at the festival, where organizers said touching, licking and biting of the chocolate Putin will not be allowed.
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