Can someone create art with pencils? of course yes, drawing. But in this site you can find amazing pictures with decoration objects made of pencils. Surprising and beautiful.
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This month both Christie’s and Sotheby’s are showing a few spectacular Rococo antiques that are not to be missed. They are whimsical in form, carved with mastery and adorned with amazing gilt bronze mounts.
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The controversial portrait painter Jonathan Yeo's design for a deck chair for London's parks has been rejected on the grounds that it is too pornographic.
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The Indian-born, London-based sculptor Anish Kapoor has always been a kind of magician, which cuts two ways. Whether with blazingly reflective metal surfaces or dark, plush, seemingly infinite interiors, his pieces dispense multiple visual thrills and mysteries.
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Known as Mogaoku -- 'peerless caves' -- and filled with paradisiacal frescos and hand-molded clay sculptures of savior-gods and saints, they are, in size and historical breadth, like nothing else in the Chinese Buddhist world. And Mogaoku is in trouble. Thrown open to visitors in recent decades, the site has been swamped by tourists in the past few years. The caves now suffer from high levels of carbon dioxide and humidity, which are severely undermining conservation efforts.
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A long legal battle over an Art Deco table owned by Ronald O. Perelman is just now being settled and is awaiting the judge's final disposition. The dispute began when Perelman began to suspect that the table was a fake, and escalated when he refused to pay for more art objects sent to him by the dealer who supplied the table.
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